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Great weekend in Vancouver
This past weekend was all about exploring a city. Vancouver was the chosen destination, even though I’ve been there so many times. It was about good food, music, walks, absorbing the city vibe, conversation, etc. (Oh… and a lot of book work as well). (Walking around Stanley Park… Beaver Lake and the beach where an…
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Unix turns 40 years old – “Unix is the best screwdriver ever built”
My first exposure to Unix came around 1992-93 when a contractor at my department at the time gave me remote access (via my 2,400bps modem) to his Sun workstation at his office so I could “play around”. I remember how within mins of getting access I was able to crash his machine because I was…
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Olympic Peninsula – Shi Shi beach
I spent this past weekend at Shi Shi beach, over at the Olympic Peninsula. Cris and I have been discussing a camping trip together for some time now. (Location of Shi Shi beach) (Driving past Lake Crescent on the way… don’t ask who took the photograph from the driver’s side… as the car was moving…
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A great night at Seattle’s ACT
I don’t often blog about many of the things I do in Seattle in the evenings (well, with the exception of concerts sometimes 🙂 but last night requires a special entry. Cindy (blog) took me to Seattle’s “A Contemporary Theatre” for a production of “Das Bardecu”, a comic adaptation of Wagner‘s Der Ring des Nibelungen.…
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Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research
I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft’s External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of what the team is doing. I had the honor/pleasure of working with some of the folks in the video. Although I have stayed in touch with everyone in External Research, I am really looking forward…
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“What’s faster – A supercomputer or EC2?” – Great insight by Ian Foster
I enjoyed reading Ian‘s analysis on how to interpret “faster” when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet: For example, let’s say we want to run the LU benchmark, which (based on the numbers in Ed’s paper) when run on 32 processors takes ~25 secs on the supercomputer and ~100 secs on EC2.…
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Weekend of riding, camping, hiking, lake swimming, windsurfing, and book writing
… Phew… what a fun weekend that was! I had such a good time even though i am now suffering the consequences (more on that later). I seriously needed the time to switch off. The weekend was totally packed but I still had time to contemplate a work-related decision. Earlier today I put things in…
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102F, 40C – Officially the hottest day in recorded history
I am amongst those who don’t complain! I miss the hot weather (coupled with being on the beach of course). This is my third summer in Seattle and I love it so far. It’s been absolutely beautiful. Blue skies, warm nights, people are out all the time, Washington lake is full of activity, and so…
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The author of the windows file copy dialog visits some friends…
This is indeed very funny (thanks to Lee for forwarding 🙂 (source xkcd)
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Now, that’s a wedding entrance…
… worth blogging about 🙂 Well done to all involved for being creative and doing something different 🙂 YouTube video (sorry, no embedding). (via Karen’s Facebook status update).