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Amazon S3
Very interesting service. I am curious to see how it’s going to do commercially, especially given the free availability of GoogleBase (although mechanisms for programmatic interaction with the GoogleBase service have not been published yet, at least not ones that I…
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Oh no!!! No traveling for 2-4 months!
What can you do to someone who lives to travel?… Tell them that they are not allowed to travel!!! I am currently in the US on an O-1 visa. Microsoft has started the process for my green card application only…
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“Behind the Code” with Jim Gray
Few months ago, the “Behind the Code” show featuring Jim Gray was shot at the Microsoft studios. I had the honor of being part of the small audience. As always, Jim was great. The show is about Jim and his…
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“The Greatest Ajax UI”
Scott‘s Ajax UI 🙂 (via Dennis)
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“Windows XP boots on a MacBook Pro” :-))
This is funny 🙂
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Messages and events again
After reading the comments by Mark Little and Mark Baker on Jim’s post (refer to my previous entry too), I wanted to say more on the subject… I don’t really agree with the use of the term ‘event’ as an architectural…
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Messaging and events
He he he 🙂 I saw this post on messaging and events (via Jim) and I was amused. The chapter we wrote almost 1 1/2 years ago for a book on service-orientation (I think the book should be published soon)…
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“Love Monkey” 🙁
One of the very few shows I watch on the US TV (Love Monkey) has been cancelled 🙁 I can’t understand. They had a great concept of guest musicians, the main character was a Bob Dylan fun (plus many great artists…
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Chapter-proposals for “Securing Web Services” deadline extended
The “Securing Web Services: Practical Usage of Standards and Specifications” book looks like a very good opportunity to publish your work in the area of Web Services security. The deadline for chapter proposals has been extended till March 24. Panos (the…
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“Post-Modern”
Woke up this morning with fever. On Friday we finished a milestone for our project and presented it internally. It went great. However, instead of sleeping all weekend as a way to ‘relax’ from the team’s last sprint, I did the exact…
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Went skiing again!
Woo hoo! After two winter seasons without skiing due to my knee injury (bad turn while playing basketball) and subsequent operation, I finally went to the slopes again today. It was fantastic. One of the best days of skiing I’ve ever…
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“Web” or “Grid” – Isn’t it ironic?
For a long time I’ve been saying that the Grid is nothing but an application domain of distributed computing and that it needs no new infrastructure. Our latest paper supports this statement and proposes the use of stable infrastructure technologies…
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Geometry Wars on Xbox 360
Wow, I am amazed! I can’t even score beyond 100,000 points in Geometry Wars when the game score leader has done 16,000,000!!! There is a video of his record setting game. Chris Anderson is already beyond 2,000,000! I have long way to go…
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Funny CS quotes
Simon sent around this link to computing-related quotes. Funny!
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An evolutionary approach to realizing the Grid computing vision
Over the last few weeks I worked together with Marvin Theimer, Marty Humphrey, Tony Hey, and Geoffrey Fox on a Grid related paper which has now been distributed to the community*. The paper describes an evolutionary approach to designing and standardizing…