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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…
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Jim on .NET Rocks
It’s really funny to experience your pal’s rise to stardom 🙂 I hope that Jim doesn’t forget his humble origins and friends :-))) Due to the years we’ve been working separately, our rhetoric has slightly diverged. I personally see a service as an architectural abstraction for encapsulating some piece of functionality, no matter how coarse-grained.…
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Another one… Sasquatch! Festival
Woo hoo… Just got tickets for another festival 🙂 Can’t wait to see REM again. Last time I saw them was back in 1996. Lots of interesting bands.
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Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
It’s been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight v1.1, I put some time today in re-implementing it in Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1. Enjoy.