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Yoga!
This morning I went to my first yoga class. It was fantastic. Since I’ve been going to the gym almost every weekday for the last couple of months, I think a Saturday-morning yoga class would be great for relaxing. I…
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Green card
As of today I am a permanent resident of the US. That was fast! (Around 10 months since I came to the US and around 8 I think since the green card process started) No more long queues when I…
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Newcastle team in the finals of the IEEE Service-oriented Computing Contest
Well done to the Newcastle team of students and to Aad van Moorsel for managing/supervising this fantastic effort. Back in January, I posted an entry about the IEEE Service Computing Contest (SCContest 2006). A team was formed and only in few months the…
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Alternative Mac Ads
No wonder I thought everyone was taking a break from blogging 🙂 My feeds got really messed up from the many installations of our latest internal Outlook 2007 builds (I am using Outlook as my feed reader these days), and…
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No more cable
I haven’t really been watching a lot of TV since I came to the US and especially over the last couple of months (I am out most of the time:-) So today I disconnected my cable TV service. I just…
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Zidane
I watched the final with friends at my place yesterday. I still can’t believe Zidane’s action. No matter what he was told, there was no excuse. He’s still, though, one of the best players around and it’s unfortunate that one of…
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Paul Watson visiting
Just picked up Paul from the airport. He’s visiting Microsoft for a week. It’s so great to have him around. Looking forward to hearing all about the Newcastle folks and discussing his latest adventures.
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Back online
Apologies to all for the SSDL, Jim‘s, and my websites/blogs downtime. Due to construction work going on at the building hosting our server, there was no electricity for few days. Unfortunately the warning message never reached us (my fault for…
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Meeting Robert Anderson
It was really nice talking to Robert last week. I’ve been aware of Digipede since my UK e-Science days. Great stuff!
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An update on my lifestyle change efforts
As I have already mentioned, I started a long-term effort to loose weight and get fit. I think I’ve been doing great so far on both aspects. I have already lost ~25 lbs over the last 56 weeks and last week…
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REST and the Robotics Application Model
Mark Nottingham highlights the use of the term ‘REST’ by the Microsoft robotics folks. I also think that there is a suggestion in Mark‘s post about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, used to be known as Indigo) not necessarily being a good fit for RESTful applications.…
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Bill Gates is going part-time
I guess the news that Bill Gates will be transitioning to a part-time job in two years is going to be huge around the world. Hmm… is there an opportunity there? Shall I apply for the job? 🙂 Love him or hate…
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More great Mac adverts
They are excellent 🙂
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“The Evolution of Dance”
Very funny 🙂
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World Cup in HD
That’s the way to watch football!!! My trips for a weekend of windsurfing at the Hood River were cancelled at the very last minute due to luck of wind, so I was able to watch the Paraguay vs England World…