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Woo hoo… ski season is here 🙂
Working from home today, which is probably true for most around here. Nothing moves outside, at least in my neighborhood 🙂
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Building an MGrammar-based application for Famulus
At the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop, Alex Wade and I presented a tutorial on Famulus. The video recording is not yet online but you can download the slides. The tutorial was mostly filled with demos so you should check out the recording when it becomes available. Alex and I showed how Famulus could be used…
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James moving to Amazon
James announced to the world (and it’s all over the tech news) that he’s moving to Amazon. This is a huge loss for Microsoft but I am super happy for James because, as he says in his blog post, change is good. Through my interactions with him, I came to realize that he’s super super…
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"Web" vs "REST" APIs
If you are a RESTferian or REST-fanatic, please look away now. This is my regular rant about the term “REST” 🙂 <rant> I am seeing the term “REST” everywhere these days, as an annotation of things that obviously do not follow the architectural principles expressed in Fielding’s thesis. Also, when someone implements all the REST…
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Carole Goble as the first recipient of the "Jim Gray eScience Award"
On Monday, Microsoft Research awarded my friend Prof. Carole Goble with the first ever “Jim Gray eScience Award”. I am very very very happy for Carole. She fully deserves it. She’s done and continues to do some amazing work in eScience. Congratulations Carole. BTW… Amongst the great things she’s done is that she’s introduced me…
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At the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop in Indianapolis
Just one day after my return back to Seattle, I flew to Indianapolis for the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop. The transition from the sunny Mexico to the cold and full of snow Indianapolis is fun 🙂 It’s great to be here and see this community before I start my new gig with Live Search tomorrow.…
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Travel blog – The good, the better, the geeky (oh and those bugs)
It’s been a wonderful experience. 17 days in the Yucatan peninsula and Belize, plus a daytrip to Guatemala. My love for road trips, for exploring, for being on the move all the time was reinforced by this trip. I feel lucky I had the opportunity to explore, for just a tiny bit, the Maya civilization…
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Travel blog – Day 17
The “swimming with the sharks” day 🙂 So, I woke up early to get ready for the dive. The difference between this PADI dive shop and the one in Belize was extraordinary. We actually followed proper procedures… filling in forms, checking of certifications, checking of equipment, etc. etc. We even planned proper safety stops for…
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Travel blog – Day 16
It’s almost over. Today, tomorrow, and then I am flying back 🙁 I woke up with a huge headache. Didn’t sleep much. The local “Christmas” beer from last night did its trick (well… it could have been the combination of how strong it was and the number of bottles I consumed 🙂 A headache like…
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Travel blog – Day 15
Back in Mexico. I woke up relatively early. The hotel didn’t serve breakfast so I made my way towards the Belize-Mexico borders, which were only 10mins away (last night I thought they were further away). At the border, I got bounced a bit but cleared customs and everything in less than an hour. The Mexican…