-
No need for additional context. It was very very funny!
“Monkey with a typewriter” Don Box, a meeting room, building 42, Redmond, WA, USA, 21 Oct 2005
-
Car bought!
So, I bought the Audi A3 today (Lava Gray with a pearl effect and some extra options). My first ever car! Thank you to all of you who replied to my request for comments either on my blog or privately.…
-
What a day and decision on the car!
I had to go through the second phase of my Washington state driver’s license today. I took the theory test around 10 days ago. I turn up at the Kirkland office of the Department of Licensing only to find out…
-
Jim’s and my blogs were down
Hey all, apologies for the downtime (I don’t know how long the blogs were down). Our Windows Server 2003 got updated automatically at some point and rebooted itself. Unfortunately, since its previous reboot (long long time ago) I had changed the…
-
I am wayyyyy behind blog reading
1281 blog posts in my queue and counting! Doh! I am having fun with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the moment. Chris is also having fun (“Workflow Communication Spelunking” and “More Workflow Communication Spelunking”) although…
-
SSDL SC and CDL
I have been asked about the relationship between SSDL‘s SC Protocol Framework and W3C’s CDL a number of times. Grek Pavlik was the last one to ask. Simon Woodman, who has been responsible for the SC work, gave a good…
-
WS-RF is having problems with the resource identity issue as well
There has been a lot of buzz lately about WS-Addressing ERPs, the reference parameters, and how resources should be identified. Jim wrote about it a couple of days ago. I agree with Jim. I too was against reference properties/parameters but in…
-
Art and footy @ Microsoft
Cool… I keep discovering new things that are going on around here. I just found out about the Microsoft art collection. They organize events with guests and exhibitions. This is sooo cool!!! Yesterday I got myself in to a football team; the…
-
RFC on cars 🙂
Hey all… I need your help… I am about to buy a car and in the next week or so I am planning to start the test drives. I like stylish, smallish, fun cars. Unfortunately the one that I really…
-
WFPad
This is very cool. If you want to learn and/or play with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), WFPad is an excellent standalone tool. If you want VS.NET (Express) 2005 integration, you can download the extension pack (please note that the current beta…
-
Good news about SSDL
We received note from IEEE Internet Computing that our paper on SSDL was accepted for publication in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue on “Asynchronous Middleware and Services”. The reviews were very good and constructive. We’ll have to make few changes which…
-
Having sooooo much fun
I am back in Seattle. I had a full day at work today and it was soooo much fun. I get to have long meetings and/or 1-1s with guys like Don Box, Oliver Sharp, Chris Sells (who btw is my MS…
-
WWW 2006 deadline is coming up fast
Make those fingers work faster on your keyboard… The deadline for WWW 2006 is only a month away. Please read the call for papers.
-
In Boston for the GGF
I arrived in Boston today for the GGF. I walked around the city and went out tonight with my friends Jon and Chris from previous GGFs. What a fun night. Boston is fantastic!!! Although the last two GGFs were supposed…
-
Impressed with office communicator
When I read this post about Office Communicator from Don Box (that was before I joined Microsoft), I was impressed. Just few minutes ago, Paul Watson (he gave a talk at MS Research earlier) called me from another MS building.…