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“Small Pleasures”
Last February, I linked to a video, which I thought was very powerful, from Konstantinos Pilavios. Here’s another one called “Small Pleasures” (make sure you watch it all the way to the end). Small Pleasures (?????? ?a???) 2008 from MovieTeller on Vimeo. (thanks to Ioannis Kavouras for the link)
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“REST in Practice” on Facebook
Our upcoming book (tentative title: “REST in Practice”) has a Facebook page, so go become a fan. We are going to start posting news/updates about the book soon. You’ll also be able to ask questions, monitor our progress, and give us feedback. However, if you are not a Facebook fan, you can always contact us…
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Another great day of skiing
Tini, Nuno, and I went to Stevens Pass today. It was a beautiful beautiful day. Blue sky and sunshine. The snow was not great. The runs were a bit icy but the beautiful day made up for it. No powder unfortunately 🙁 Stevens Pass is not like Whistler for sure, not even close. However, it’s…
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5mins with Michael Palin
I loved, of course, Michael Palin in all the Monty Python sketches and movies but I used to be soooo envious (and still am) of his travels for his documentary series. He’s been to 94 countries and not just touching down… he’s really visited and explored those countries. BBC News has a 5-min interview with…
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Great photograph of the Seattle skyline
The photographs that made it to the final round of the Bing homepage contest are amazing. The winning one is a photo of the Seattle skyline. It’s gorgeous. Justin Kraemer/ Justin Kraemer Photography This photograph of the Seattle skyline won the second Bing homepage-photo contest. It will be featured as Bing’s background image on Jan.…
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Weekend at Whistler/Blackcomb
The skiing season has started really strong. After the great snow at Crystal Mountain few weeks ago, I went to Whistler for the weekend with Tini and Nuno. We also met my very good friends (and usual skiing buddies when I go to Whistler… they practically live there in the winter 🙂 Theoni and Simran.…
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Restfulie gets a home and a logo
It looks cool too 🙂 Thanks again for the credit to our book (tentative title “REST in Practice”).
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“Bar Stool Economics”
I was forwarded a translated to Greek version of the “Bar Stool Economics” anecdote. It effectively tries to exemplify how the American tax system works. It uses clever language and math to hide the fact that the system is indeed biased towards larger savings for the richer. It also makes the assumption that the richer…
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New York Times article about the “Fourth Paradigm” book
The New York Times has a nice article (“A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing”) about the “Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery” book, which also happens to include my “A platform for all that we know: creating a knowledge-driven research infrastructure” essay 🙂 Check out my October blog entry about the book. It’s…
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Interview with Guilherme Silveira, creator of Restfulie
Just read Guilherme‘s interview over at InfoQ about Restfulie. Nice read. It’s great to see that our (upcoming) book is already helping people create Web applications and frameworks out there. “Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson will release a book on using the web as one’s infrastructure in early 2010 and after reading it…