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Blogs downtime and upgrade
Apologies to all who tried to access Jim‘s and mine blogs over the last couple of hours. I was doing maintenance work on our host server. We are now running on the RTM versions of .NET 2.0 and SQL Server…
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live.com updated
Woo hoo! The live.com guys listened to my (and I am sure many others’) complaints and have improved the search user experience dramatically. Finally the search results occupy the entire browser surface. I am making it my default search engine…
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About Web/Grid Services convergence
I have probably already blogged about the “Web/Grid Services convergence” marketing song that the Grid community has been singing since the introduction of WSRF. Jim Alateras‘ comment in my last entry made me want to write about it again 🙂…
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Modeling Web Services using OO and moving on
Here we go again. I started writing this as a comment-response to Enric‘s comment in my ‘OO Sucks’ post but it got too long so I thought of posting it as a separate entry. I have no problem with OO but…
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“OO sucks” 🙂
I met Dominic for the first time last night over dinner. I enjoyed talking to him. He’s doing a PhD in “programming models for Web Services”. We didn’t get very much into the details but I believe that any programming…
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Windows Desktop Search and MSN and Google “integration”
Here’s something fun: I was reading this guide on Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and how to make it search your intranet. Once the relevant policies are applied and WDS gets restarted, an ‘intranet’ search button appears. The idea is that you…
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SCUBA diving
Wooo hooo! After 4 days of continuous diving (two 3-hour pool sessions and 4 dives in cold waters) I am now a certified SCUBA diver 🙂 I am hoping to practice my newly acquired skills very soon since I am going to…
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local.live.com
Wow! I am not sure whether local.live.com should have been released today (I thought it was going to be released tomorrow) but it seems to be reachable… Check out the bird’s eye views. Fantastic. This is building 42 at the Microsoft…
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Smoke kills
An antitoon: ‘Smoke kills’ 🙂
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Snowing in Seattle
The surrounding mountains have been ready for skiing for few weeks now. Now it’s snowing in Redmond. I am sooooo looking forward to going skiing again. It’s been crazy the last couple of weeks. The car arrived (it’s great… already…
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Interacting with Encarta via IM
This is pretty cool (via Chris Sells). You add encarta@conversagent.com as a contact in your MSN Messenger contacts list and then you can start interacting with Encarta. I started by issuing the following questions for which I got exactly the answers…
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Rumesh online memorial
The folks at Newcastle created an online memorial for Rumesh (see my earlier post).
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SOAP over SMTP in Indigo
Steve is the man! Very very cool.
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Rumesh Kumar Machap
I received a phone call from the UK early yesterday morning with sad news about the tragic death of my friend Rumesh. This is crazy, just crazy! I still can’t believe it. Those who might have seen me presenting or…