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Xbox 360!
Oh yes! On Friday, my manager and I went to our local BestBuy after we were informed by Xbox 360 tracker that there were consoles available there (I must remember to make a donation to the guy who wrote it).…
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So close to getting an Xbox 360 today
I woke up this morning and run the xbox360 tracker just in case. It told me that there some Xbox 360s available at BestBuy in Lynnwood (north of Seattle). It was around 7.30 in the morning (well, very early for me)…
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Greek .NET community
Chris Georgakopoulos pointed me to a very cool .NET community site in Greece: dotnetzone.gr (in Greek). Cool job guys!
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Book: “Knowledge representation and reasoning”
Lately I have been reading “Knowledge representation and reasoning: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations” by John Sowa and I am seriously enjoying it. Chris mentioned a very simple analogy used in the book to explain the difference between the directionality…
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Jim on SSDL
A great post by Jim summarizing SSDL.
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Go MESTeferians, go!
A group of us are thinking of joining the IEEE International Services Computing Contest (SCContest 2006) contest. This looks like it could be lots of fun. Jim and I can act as the industry advisors (poor customers! :-). Aad is…
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Two funny photos
I saw this outside someone’s office here in Microsoft and I thought it was funny: Doug Purdy posted a photo of an Indigo poster with the following commentary 🙂 “A few months ago I was at an unnamed conference.…
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Am I working on SSDL in Microsoft?
I love speculation 🙂 The interest in SSDL has been picking up again. I got lots of requests for the article. I am now expecting lots of feedback from you folks! Negative or positive. Keep it coming! Robert wonders whether I…
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TechReady2
Last week Seattle hosted a Microsoft internal event called TechReady. Microsoft folks from all around the world, who interact with customers as part of their day job, joined us to discuss the company’s latest offerings. Simon Guest was responsible for…
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This looks soooo slick
My current notebook (HP nw8240) is ugly, albeit thin and with a great screen resolution. My two previous ones (both IBM thinkpads, erm… Lenovo) looked too serious, their performance was great though. The new Thinkpad with the wide-aspect screen is…
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Call for Paper for a special issue on ‘Middleware for Web Services’
Oops… My apologies for not posting this earlier but it escaped my attention. There is a very interesting call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management on ‘Middleware for Web Services’.…
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SSDL in IEEE Internet Computing
As Jim already mentioned, our IEEE Internet Computing article about SSDL is now published (also available online). I am really interested in the reaction and comments (if any) from the Web Services community. Who knows? Perhaps we could make a…
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Happy 2006 everyone
Happy New Year Everyone! It was a dream celebration for us. 2006 found us on a catamaran in the Sydney harbor watching the fantastic fireworks display in a clear Sydney sky. The stars, the atmosphere, the fireworks, the city, the…
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Landed in Australia
Few hours ago I landed in Australia. It’s soooooooo nice to see Jim and Kath again! I missed them. I am staying for a couple of nights with them before the rest of their friends and family join us. I am…
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“PM skills” a la Chris Sells
If you ever want to work for Microsoft as a Program Manager (PM), or if you are already in Microsoft as a PM, or if you have similar responsibilities in another company, then check out Chris Sells‘ blog where he started posting…