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Activities, travels, and music
It’s been two months since my last travel/music post. I am in a hotel in Athens waiting for the hours to go by before my return flights to Seattle tomorrow so I thought of recording some of my activities/travel/festival highlights over the last couple of months. There was that May dual sport ride and a…
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Great farewell note by J Allard
Sad day today at “the borg”. I really liked Robbie Bach’s and J Allard’s styles. I am sure they have their reasons (the ones they talk about and those that they keep to themselves) for leaving the collective. I liked J Allard’s farewell message. I couldn’t agree more with the last paragraph, especially the note…
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The Amnesty International advert that the Financial Times didn’t run
Here’s the advert that the Financial Times didn’t run (commentary from the Guardian). Share it through your Facebook account, if you have one. I’ve been boycotting Shell for years now (even came close to running out of gas in the middle of nowhere recently because of my refusal to use one of their stations). I…
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REST in Practice… meet the authors
My “REST in Practice” co-authors, Jim and Ian, have been doing an amazing job at creating presentation/courseware material for the book. It’s really humble to experience the kind of interest we’ve had so far from academics, even before the book is published, based on the presentation material that we have made available. Now that a…
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REST in Practice in editing/review/correction state and available on Amazon
It’s been a loooooong road, I think it might even be more than 2 3 years. Jim and I had talked about writing a book together about the Web, its design principles, its technologies, and its potential role in distributed applications. We love working together so we wanted this to be our next project. Little…
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Coachella 2010 and Santa Monica visit
It’s been two weeks since Coachella 2010 but I only now got the chance to blog about the experience. Work and the focus on finishing “REST in Practice” have kept me really busy. The Coachella festival is definitely not Glastonbury, not even close! It occupies a very small space and the few stages are very…
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Chemistry addin for Word available as Open Source
It’s soooo great to see the Chemistry addin for Word (previously known as “Chem4Word”) on Codeplex as an open source project. Congratulations to all the folks over at External Research and to Alex Wade in particular for driving this wonderful project and making it what it is today. Few years ago, Tony Hey and I…
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Word add-in for Ontology Recognition
I have written about the Word add-in for Ontology Recognition (the focus of the BioLit project) in the past. The project was also mentioned in my contribution to the Fourth Paradigm book and our “A smart’ cyberinfrastructure for Research” article. It was one of the projects in which I was actively involved while in Microsoft…
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“Think Biker”
Next time you get that steering wheel in your hands, think of us bikers… Great British commercial. Check out the “making of” as well for some of the thinking…
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The winner of the “Zentity Dojo challenge” at Dev8D
The Zentity folks at MSR’s External Research group (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Oscar Naim) and the wonderful guys at the University of Southampton, School of Engineer Sciences (Steven Johnston, Mark Scott, Kenji Takeda, Simon Cox, and Less Carr) organized a Dojo event at Dev8D around Zentity. It was great seeing the reports and the…