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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).
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Keeping track of my running with RunKeeper
RunKeeper is a very cool app for the iPhone. I tried it yesterday and today for my runs and it’s working pretty well. I have to try harder to bring back my level of fitness (if the numbers are correct :-). I also need to check in my next run whether the numbers were skewed…
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SciScope available (including source code)
This is another offering from my previous team and my good friend Bora (who I think is an upcoming star in Microsoft). SciScope (see it live) is a prototype web application that allows data discovery from across multiple distributed heterogeneous data repositories. It leverages Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth) and Microsoft SQL Server 2008…
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Ah!!! The joy of services “owning” your data – Facebook’s turn
I saw this in my friend Laura’s Facebook status update… FYI: Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on SETTINGS up at the top where you see the log out link. Select PRIVACY. Then select NEWS FEEDS AND WALL. Next select the tab that reads FACE…
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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,…