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goosh – geeky cool
I just read about goosh on ./. How cool. And how appropriate that it’s a shell hosted in a browser. I am sure there are other similar ones all over but the delivery of this particular one is just cool. (only those who’ve used a *nix shell will appreciate the beauty of this one 🙂…
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Coldplay ad
I was playing with the Windows Media Center on my server at home (sorry… can’t say why given I don’t watch TV 🙂 and I saw an ad of Coldplay‘s new album. I thought… wow… this is such a cool advert, great visuals, great atmosphere… it must be the same company as the one that…
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Sasquatch photos…
As promised in my previous post about Sasquatch, here are some photos…
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Workshop on Empirical Studies of Web Services Architecture (The REST-SOAP Debate in Numbers)
This sounds like a very fun workshop. Now, all we need are fun papers as well. So, start those word processors and discuss your views, observations, thinking. The Program Committee is looking forward to reading what you have to say. Call for papers. Workshop web site.
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Great posts from Steve
I’ve been doing some catching up with few of the blogs I follow. I just read few of Steve Vinoski‘s latest entries. Worth checking out. Just What We Need: Another RPC Package Defending Something Other Than RPC
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Sasquatch Festival!
Ok… Sasquatch was nothing like Glastonbury. Wayyyy too small. I arrived there on Friday late afternoon. I thought I would just set up my tent and then start doing things, jumping from party to party with live music. Nope… it was a quiet Friday evening. There were some ad-hoc parties going on in the camp…
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No more Live Search Academic 🙁
The Live Search team made a decision to pull the plug on Live Search Academic and Live Search Books (including the book scanning project). This is sad news for those of us who had high hopes for those services and the value they were adding to the academic and research communities. Please be assured, however,…
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BBC Facebook spoof video
Very funny 🙂 (sent to me via email from Santosh)
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New toy: an eReader
In my ever futile attempt to persuade everyone in my team to stop printing, I purchased an eReader. I went for iRex’s Iliad… It has a larger screen than other popular readers; Note taking capability (even though the design and the form factor of the Sony eReader made me almost ignore this important feature); WiFi…
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Cloud computing in action
Using the Web as a platform? Not having to build an entire ecosystem of infrastructure protocols in order to utilize another organization’s/company’s resources (by paying for it of course)? Living the distributed, large-scale computing dream without having to build your own infrastructure? How, why didn’t anyone tell this to the Grid community long time ago?…