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Trying to get control of my data
The services I use on a daily basis seem to take control of my data. They decide what I can access and what gets hidden/archived. In an attempt to get control of my data maintained by such services on the Web, I decided to start adding extensions to my blog engine. Starting today, a “daily…
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Tools for Repositories Workshop
The Scholarly Communications team in Microsoft Research is organizing a workshop as part of the Open Repositories 09 conference. During the workshop we’ll demonstrate and discuss lots of the technologies we’ve been building over the last couple of years to help with the scholarly communications lifecycle. The entire team will be there: Lee Dirks, Alex…
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Wow… impressed with my Zune…
My Zune survived both a complete washing cycle and 2 hours in my dryer. Should I be worried about the state of my washing machine? 🙂
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The little things you notice…
… when you spend too much time at home being ill 🙂 I’ve been in bed for the last 2 1/2 days. I don’t remember when it was the last time I was so sick, with high fever, constant coughing, and no energy at all. I am much better now but I have almost lost…
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New blog engine and look & feel
As I had said a couple of weeks ago, I started working a new blog engine and look & feel for my corner of the web. I didn’t really spend a lot of time on this. It was mainly attracting my attention when I wanted to take my mind off the book and Microsoft-related work…
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"Not cool enough to be a Mac person"
Hmmm! Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion
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"The Paradox of Choice"
Interesting short talk by Barry Schwartz. His great presentation style reminded me of Jeremy Frey who also uses cartoons in his talks. I am not sure I completely agree with all Prof. Schwartz’s points but his talk definitely gives food for thought. There is a lot of truth in his rhetoric around the plethora of…
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Beautiful video…
… about global warming.
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BSG at the UN
I loved this… At one point the discussion lit a fire under the Admiral, and the talk of human rights turned personal for Edward James Olmos. The “Old Man” launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one race, the human race. His…
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World Wide Telescope using Silverlight
It’s absolutely amazing! The guys over at MSR managed to bring the same experience from the Windows client into the browser. It’s beautiful. (Linux and Macs should be able to use WWT now). Tip: Go and select one of the guided tours.