• Excellent presentation on "Identity 2.0"

    My pal Panos Periorellis, who recently joined Microsoft from the University of Newcastle, pointed me to this fantastic presentation by Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0. The delivery style is really cool. Worth watching.

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  • "This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done" No2

    Remember that post about me missing a flight even though I was at the airport 7 hours before take off? I had entitled that post “This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done“. Now, what title do you use when you repeat the same mistake? 🙁 This time it came very close…

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  • Alex and Savas at Dev8D to talk about "Famulus"

    The Dev8D event is now over. As always, David did an excellent job at organizing a developer-oriented event that doesn’t follow the traditional, academic-style workshops/conferences. It was fun. It was also great talking with the other geeks in the repository space. There are many clever folks there! BTW… the “8D” in “Dev8D” is a smilie,…

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  • Nice little feature in IE8

    I saw a demo internally today of a new feature in Live Search that I liked. Apparently you can now start searching in IE8’s search bar and you might get an “instant answer” as a suggestion immediately.    It’ll even do things like arithmetic 🙂 BTW… in case you didn’t know, the “search suggestion” feature…

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  • Beautiful British Columbia

    Two weeks ago, on the way back from skiing with Jim and his wife, we encountered this amazing landscape. A cloud at sea level and blue sky. Absolutely gorgeous. My photos don’t really do it justice.

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  • Lazy morning/afternoon and book writing

    It’s been a lazy day so far. It’s really sunny and wonderful outside. I got the chance to relax, have coffee with Santosh, roam between coffee places, late lunch at the Hilltop, and also work on that Web-related book that Jim, Ian, and I are writing. Great! Here’s a link to a nice short film,…

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  • 2TB disk for $300!

    This is just “WOW”!!! Western Digital just released a new 2TB disk. Time to upgrade my home storage solution 🙂 As always, James is keeping track and analyzing storage-related costs.

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  • Discovering new music

    On Thursday I was at Big Daddy‘s for Fractal‘s visit to the Pacific North-West. Netflix‘s Adrian Cockcroft has been a “roadie” since their beginning and listed under “guilt by association” on the band’s site* :-). He made the trip with them so it was nice to catch up with him. To my surprise, eBay‘s Paul…

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  • Great Coldplay video

    Yes, I am a big fun! 🙂 Thanks to Nuno for forwarding.

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  • Famulus hits the road

    Alex Wade and I are going to be in the UK in February to talk and showcase Famulus. We are going to have the new bits with us for developers to play with and new features and samples to talk about. Here’s the announcement. MSR Research Output Repository Platform @ Dev8D Come participate in the…

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