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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?…
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"Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible"
Now, I wouldn’t usually blog about a ./ article like this but the highlighted sentence made me laugh, something that I seriously needed after a tiring day full of meetings… “According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled ‘Aliens Are My Brother’ that intelligent beings created by God could…
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Data formats – The adventures of reading a Flow Cytometry data file
I try to spend few hours a week at the Armbrust Lab, trying to understand what the scientists there are trying to do and how their work could be helped by technology-based automation solutions, especially around the area of data management. The week before I sat in their weekly meeting, where Francois Ribalet talked about…
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Greece gets Bird’s Eye view in Virtual Earth
Dan Fay told me about the availability of Bird’s Eye view photos of major cities in Greece. I was able to find the place I spent 4 years of my life while an undergraduate in Greece, in Thessaloniki 🙂 The new feature that I really love, though, is the incorporation of Wikipedia articles.
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Which Mac?
If you were to recommend a Mac laptop, which one would it be? MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5GHz, is there an SSD option?) MacBook Air Please note that I am not after a power/dev machine like my Thinkpad T61p but it does have to be fast enough for some modest development tasks.
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Bora’s blog is active again
I think I have already linked to Bora’s blog but one more time doesn’t hurt. I’ve been privileged to see some of the stuff he’s working on and, I can tell you, it’s very exciting! Stay tuned.
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Jim Gray Systems Lab
While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton‘s blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft-internal version as well 🙂 that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical Fellow to lead the Jim Gray Systems Lab.
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Oh dear… 3 Lesbians (people from the island of Lesbos) are suing
For the moment I thought it was April 1st all over again. But it’s the last day of April, not the first. I read about the following piece of news in in.gr, the popular online news site in Greece. Three inhabitants of the island of Lesbos are suing the Greek Homosexual and Lesbian Community in…