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Automation… Laugh or cry more?
I opened my Facebook stream of updates this morning to find this notice amongst others… Sigh! 🙁 BTW… One of the many, I am sure, gatherings of friends for drinks took place yesterday! (Thanks to Kendra for the photo)
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RIP my friend – Lee Dirks
People started posting their condolences on Lee’s Facebook timeline so I guess it’s ok to post this note now. Earlier this morning I received the sad news that my good friend and colleague at Microsoft, Lee Dirks, and his wife,…
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SSDL.org contents online again
A recent question at the REST in Practice discussion group, reminded me of the research work that Jim and I did on the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL). It was an active time of discussions with the Web Services community.…
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Zoom buttons for the Google Maps control on the iPhone
It took me few hours, spread over a number of weekends, to figure out the solution to the following problem so I am recording it in case it’s useful to someone else out there. I am using PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile,…
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Some photos from our recent trip
We spent 5 days on the road. Mary, Tini, Nuno, and I went to Zion and Bryce canyons in Utah. We flew to Las Vegas, stayed for a night, got our rental, and then drove by lake Mead and Hoover…
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Farewell Kyril
I met Kyril back in 2006. I was already in Microsoft for a year when Jim Gray and Tony Hey asked me to join Tony’s Technical Computing team as an Architect. Kyril was in my interview loop for the job.…
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Rest in Peace Jim Gray
Jim Gray (1944-2012). Here’s to a wonderful human being, an amazing scientist, and a great role model. I am so honored to have known, have worked with, and have had him as a mentor in Microsoft. Jim was the one…
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The Hermes Series – Issue 2
Welcome to the second edition of The Hermes Series, a non-regular and often random collection of notes & thoughts about knowledge representation and reasoning, graphs, technology, and all things from around the Web. In this second blog post in the…
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My files in the cloud using SkyDrive
I have been using the beta version of SkyDrive for a while now and I love it. I was a huge user of Live Mesh for its peer-to-peer synchronization capabilities. I am certain I will miss that feature but I…
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The Hermes Series – Issue 1
I am an information junkie I enjoy keeping up with the world of technology. I take notes, keep links, and write about the things that interest me. I try to identify the connections with what I do at work, with…
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Welcome to the new http://savas.me look
As I suggested a week ago, my weblog was going to change. The majority of the work has now been done. There are still few things that I need to fix or transfer from my old site but most of…
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Blog changes coming up
In the coming days, this blog and my entire corner on the web at http://savas.me are going to change. After 8 years of faithful service, I am retiring “pblog“, the blogging engine I wrote back in 2003 and further evolved…
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Come work for our team!!!
In my previous post I shared my excitement about my new role in Microsoft. I work together with some amazing people on hard problems, in a domain that really excites me: data, information, knowledge at scale. We now want to…
