• Wow… amazing photos submitted for Bing

    I submitted few of my photos for the internal-to-Microsoft version of this photograph competition, few months ago. No surprise, mine didn’t have a chance when they can get such gorgeous photographs!

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  • Microsoft and GPLv2 – I bet you weren’t expecting this 🙂

    I didn’t know about it until last Friday when Alex Wade told me. Today, Microsoft announced the submission of GPLv2 code into the Linux kernel!!! Unbelievable. As Jim Zemlin characteristically said: “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted”. :-)) You can read all about it in this NetworkWorld article (and I am sure all…

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  • Woo hoo… pblog talks AtomPub

    It really bothered me that I couldn’t blog from my MacBook Pro. Well, I did manage to post an entry but the particular blog editor didn’t offer a great experience. So far, Windows Live Writer is the best desktop client for blogging that I’ve used. Since I can’t have it on the Mac, I decided…

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  • The growth of Acer and lightweight OSes

    I do hope that Microsoft is paying attention. There was public rhetoric a year ago about the appeal of Netbooks. Well, the just-released numbers say the story clearly… Netbooks (or cheap laptops) do have an audience and it seems that the audience is growing. Acer has had a great quarter and Toshiba a good one,…

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  • Great online resource: The Richard Feynman lectures

    It’s great to finally see this out. My previous team has been responsible for the execution on this. It’s truly a great resource for those who want to get an insight to one of the greatest scientific minds of our era. And, in case you didn’t know, Tony Hey worked with him and is also…

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  • Report on weekend road trip + Coldplay

    I hit the road this weekend. It was fantastic! I needed to be on the road by myself, in order to concentrate on some Web book writing and also to gather my thoughts and feelings. I find that being on the road is very southing to the soul. I love it. The Coldplay concert was…

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  • Blogging from the Mac

    I am evaluating different blog editors for the Mac. I am posting this from ScribeFire so be warned about what you might see here. Since I am on the road, I can’t test it against my test installation of pblog. Oh… I miss Windows Live Writer. What a great little application.

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  • Cool application of augmented reality

    I am looking into the augmented reality space using cell phones as a hobby these days. This is a cool vision video (via Engadget).

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  • “Ian Robinson and Jim Webber on Web-based Integration”

    My Web-book co-authors gave an interview to Stefan Tilkov for InfoQ. Fun! How can you not like that happy face of my best friend Jim? 🙂 (the one on the left) Ahhhh! I miss working with my pal. Every time I stay at his place and we talk geek, I remember the fun times of…

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  • Another installment of idiotic behavior by Savas

    I have the habit of reporting my idiotic behavior from time-to-time, when I believe that I deserve to be publicly ridiculed. Remember when I put my foot in my mouth or when I missed my flight (and then did it again)? Well, I think this might top those. I blame it on being absentminded these…

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