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Glastonbury in November (@glastofest)
Wow. I can’t believe Glastonbury looks like this. It’s sooo beautiful 🙂 Different type of beauty from when it’s packed with ~200k people at the end of June 🙂 Compare the beautiful green landscape with the colorful sea of tends,…
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A “smart” cyberinfrastructure for research
Many months ago, Tony Hey, Evely Viegas, and I were invited to write a “viewpoint” article for the Communications of the ACM. It should be of no surprise that we chose to write about “Semantic Computing” as it relates to…
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A positive spin to globalization?
I am a true believer in finding something positive in all aspects of human activities. It’s no secret that I am not a huge fun of capitalism and its impact to the world’s less fortunate. I do not believe in…
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Slides from Jim and Ian’s QCon tutorial
Jim and Ian (my co-authors for the “REST In Practice”*) gave a tutorial at QCon in San Francisco few days ago, which was very well received. For most part, the slides follow a lot of our rhetoric in the book…
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Working hard… playing hard… Upcoming live concerts 🙂
I am keeping myself quite busy these days and I love it. I started Yoga classes twice a week at 6.30am and a fitness class at 7.30am, again twice a week. I really need to get ready for the ski…
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My energy consumption in numbers
I really try my best to be good with the environment, as much as I can. Over the last couple of years I’ve been taking more active steps. It’s starting to pay off but there is much more to be…
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“Scholarly Communications” Group on Facebook and at the OCLC Mashathon event
Lee Dirks just created a “Scholarly Communications” group on Facebook. Most of my work while I was in Microsoft Research was associated/supported by Lee’s group. Lee and Alex Wade are doing an amazing job. They have so many ideas on…
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Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF)
I am really happy to see the MBF project being announced to the public. When Simon Mercer of External Research first told me about what he wanted to do (that was last year, when I was still working for External…
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Restfulie
Guilherme Silveria and Cau Guerra are at it again. Great stuff guys! I can’t wait for our book to finish so that everyone can check out our discussion of hypermedia and the stuff we’ve built. It’s really great to see…
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A weekend in New York
I spent last weekend in New York. I looooove this city. Every time I visit, I am falling more and more in love with it. I don’t know what’s ahead in my personal/professional life but after my current gig I…
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Restbucks hypermedia client? 🙂
Wow… our book is not complete yet and folks have already started writing code based on our examples? 🙂 I just read on Jim‘s blog that Guilherme Silveira, Adriano Almeida, and Lucas Cavalcanti have been doing some good work in…
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When patterns and frameworks get the job done
I loooove good technical arguments. Over the last couple of years, I have stayed out of the community discussions around REST, Web Services, SOA, Grid, and all that. This was a conscious decision on my part. I much prefer to…
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U2 concert in Vancouver
What a wonderful wonderful experience that was! We had a blast! I left work early to get to Vancouver with 1 1/2 hours to spare so that I could have dinner with my friends before the Black Eyed Peas who…
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Ed’s birthday party
On Friday, my neighbors Janet and Ed threw a party for Ed’s birthday at Sole Repair in Capitol Hill. They always know how to throw a good party 🙂 It was an absolute blast. The theme was “Xenophilia = love…
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Seattle colors
Seattle is sooooo beautiful at this time of the year. I’ve been carrying my camera with me the last week or so and taking photographs of the colors and the rapidly changing landscape. This is a sunset from my balcony……