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My gas consumption is definitely going down 🙂
I moved to the US in September of 2005. I set a goal for myself to stay organized with regards to my finances and collect as much data as possible for data analysis. Since then, every single entry in my credit card statements is explicitly reviewed and categorized. I used Microsoft Money and then Quicken…
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
To me Steve represents the perfect example of a visionary, a creator, leader, an artist, a world changer. In my eyes, the world is a better, more beautiful place, because of Steve. Source: apple.com, Oct 5, 2011 Steve Jobs
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Glastonbury 2011
Another year, another Glastonbury!!! And as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year it was a different experience for me but it was still a lot of fun! 🙂 It was the first Glastonbury since 2004 that I didn’t experience on my own. Mary was with me, which meant that camping with a small tent, no…
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Implementing an Actor in C# with Task Continuations
We are having fun at work with some investigation work in the NoSQL space. We’ve been playing with actors in our distributed system. There has been a lot of prior work in this space so we are not really doing anything new with actors but it’s still fun. Scala, F#, Erlang, and many others have…
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New challenge
It was more than 18 months that I moved to the Technical Computing organization inside Microsoft. I had joined a startup team that worked on building a platform for large-scale compute and data processing on top of Azure. It was an amazing experience. We worked hard, produce great results, and learnt a lot. I met…
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“It’s up to us to write what happens next… together”
I hadn’t come across the “HOME” movie before. I watched it earlier today. Our home, the planet that we call Earth, deserves at least 1 1/2h of our time. Please please please watch this movie in its entirety!!! The cinematography is spectacular; the narration really beautiful; the conveyed message powerful, inspiring, moving. Make sure you…
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Squaw Valley skiing weekend
The last weekend of January I traveled to California to meet with Jim and Emil for a weekend of skiing at Squaw Valley. We were treated with an excellent weather on Saturday and amazing new 20-30cm snow on Sunday. Soooooo much fun! I hadn’t seen my pal Jim for a long time so I really…
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“The Joy of Stats”
Happy New Year everyone! The first blog entry of 2011 is about an 1-hour BBC documentary on the “Joy of Stats” (video on YouTube) with Hans Rosling as the presenter. Hans Rosling is a great inspiration to me. He always talks about the power of data and its analysis, a subject about which I care…
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“REST in Practice” in top 5 🙂
This is cool. O’Reilly had an ebook promotion for cyber-Monday here in the US. “REST in Practice” did very well. It was the fifth best-selling title 🙂 Tim O’Reilly published a blog entry about the top selling books. Not bad! 🙂 If you have read the book and would like to share your views with…
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Diplomacy 2.0?
I feel that I need to express my opinion on the recent Wikileaks-related events. I know that many of my friends or those who follow my thoughts on the Web might not agree with me but I always believe that it’s healthy to have a difference in opinions since it makes for interesting conversations 🙂…