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Obama’s win
It’s been fascinating to watch the entire world paying attention to the election results of one country; a testament to the global role of the US today. I don’t really believe in political labels (“left”, “right”, “socialist”, “communist”, etc.) but I am very sympathetic to social policies, education, research, peace, democracy, and the power of…
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Ski season
Just bought my 10-day pass for Whistler 🙂 Can’t wait to hit the slopes again.
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Savas is moving on (to search for ET Life!!!! 🙂
After two wonderful years working for Tony Hey‘s Technical Computing and then External Research teams, it’s time to find a new challenge. I talked to various teams (inside and outside Microsoft) and found lots of interesting opportunities. At the end, I decided to do something very risky and move to Live Search 🙂 My intention…
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PDC 08: Day 3 Highlights
Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 3 I missed the Rick Rasid’s keynote because my early-morning Chem4Word teleconference overrun but it was important. I attended the Windows 7 context-aware API talk, which was interesting. The accelerometer-based demo at the end was fun. Lots of socializing today. Attended the second half…
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PDC 08: Day 2 Highlights
Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 2 (yesterday) Keynote 1: Lots of new technologies… Windows 7, VS.NET 2010, .NET 4.0, Silverlight outside the browser (great demo Marc! :-), and Office apps in the browser. Keynote 2: Don Box and Chris Anderson did a great job at going around the various…
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PDC 08: Day 1 Highlights
Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 1 Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia). Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform were announced. The technology is great. Ray‘s appearance was very good (he’s come long ways from the first time I saw him present) and Bob‘s was energetic. Unfortunately, Amitabh’s appearance needs improvement.…
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In LA for PDC08
I am sooo excited 🙂 Lots of technology-related announcements. A geek’s dream 🙂 PDC 08.
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I am yellow
I went through a psychometrics evaluation recently as part of a group activity in Microsoft. It was extremely interesting to find out about the characteristics of different personalities. Of course, we should always treat such tests with a grain of salt. We are all individuals with our unique characteristics. We constantly get input about our…
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Concert updates
I recently went to see Sigur Ros with friend who had an extra ticket. I really enjoyed it. Good energy and great show. Photos below. Tonight I am seeing Death Cub for Cutie again (loved them at Sasquatch) supporting Neil Young… what a weird combination, but “hey hey, my my” 🙂 I decided that tonight…
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Podcast about Famulus and supporting the Scholarly Communications lifecycle
Paul Miller from Talis interviewed Alex and me the other day. You can listen all about our Research Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”) and the rest of our tooling in the podcast.