A great night at Seattle’s ACT

15 years ago

I don't often blog about many of the things I do in Seattle in the evenings (well, with the exception…

Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research

15 years ago

I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft's External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of…

“What’s faster – A supercomputer or EC2?” – Great insight by Ian Foster

15 years ago

I enjoyed reading Ian's analysis on how to interpret "faster" when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet:…

Weekend of riding, camping, hiking, lake swimming, windsurfing, and book writing

15 years ago

... Phew... what a fun weekend that was! I had such a good time even though i am now suffering…

102F, 40C – Officially the hottest day in recorded history

15 years ago

I am amongst those who don't complain! I miss the hot weather (coupled with being on the beach of course).…

The author of the windows file copy dialog visits some friends…

15 years ago

This is indeed very funny (thanks to Lee for forwarding :-) (source xkcd)

Now, that’s a wedding entrance…

15 years ago

... worth blogging about :-) Well done to all involved for being creative and doing something different :-) YouTube video…

Keeping track of my running with RunKeeper

15 years ago

RunKeeper is a very cool app for the iPhone. I tried it yesterday and today for my runs and it's…

SciScope available (including source code)

15 years ago

This is another offering from my previous team and my good friend Bora (who I think is an upcoming star…

Ah!!! The joy of services “owning” your data – Facebook’s turn

15 years ago

I saw this in my friend Laura's Facebook status update... FYI: Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use…