• Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

    I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one… Few months ago I read in Robert‘s blog about the distinction he made between “Infrastructure as a Service”, “Platform as…

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  • Happy New Year everyone

    I wish for the world to be in a better place next year. May every moment of our lives in 2009 help us better understand our world and our fellow humans, come closer to our environment and protect it, push us to become better human beings. Be happy, love, and smile!

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  • S-Expressions vs XML

    I’ve been playing with S-Expressions again. It’d have been sooooo great if the world had adopted them instead of XML. They are just so tidy.

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  • How to make $20 at OfficeMax

    1. You buy a new Cisco linksys wireless router (WRT160N) before Christmas since your old Linksys (WRT54G v5.0) is showing its age. Cost is $100 – $20 (promotional discount). 2. You realize that the new router is dropping the Internet connection so you decide to return it (but you can’t find the receipt). 3. The…

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  • "Eventually Consistent"

    Great article by Werner Vogels.

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  • "Biohackers"

    Fascinating! Biotech revolution coming from people’s garages. 🙂 Excellent.

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  • Knowledge representation… not the best example 🙂

    I’ve been looking at the OpenCyc Foundation’s Concept Browser page. I searched for the concept “product”. It took me to a helpful page that says: Each instance of sales product is a thing that exists in time that is, or was at one time, offered for sale or performed as a commercial service, or was…

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  • Queen Anne covered in snow

    Many of you might have heard about the snowstorms that have hit the US over the last week or so. I live on a hill, not far from Seattle’s downtown, called Queen Anne. The roads in my neighborhood get really icy every year, making driving around a very difficult task. I wasn’t expecting that I’d…

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  • Quotes from Sowa’s book

    As I was reading Sowa‘s “Knowledge Representation – Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations”, I noted few funny quotes. I don’t know whether Sowa heard them from others or they are his. Commenting on a bad but common practice: “Code first and think later”; Talking about the different views of the world by fourth generation languages,…

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  • Famulus and M – Added "symmetric" relation

    Continuing my previous experiment, I took few mins this morning to add support for “symmetric” relations to my little inferencing engine for Famulus. Here’s an example (starting with a clean Famulus store):

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