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/. and misreporting
We all know and love Slashdot for its anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux commentary. I follow it almost every day and I always smile with the Microsoft-related posts. It’s ok, it’s fun. I still haven’t digested the blue pill I was given when I joined the Borg collective, so I can still appreciate the justified critique against my…
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New toy
Just bought the new 8GB Zune (the black one). I’ve finally moved away from the iPod (not that I don’t like them… it’s just that my old 60GB iPod was failing on me). Can’t wait to get the 80GB Zune one as well, when it becomes available at the Microsoft company store (mid-Dec). The new…
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"The Web as the Platform for Research"
I am at SuperComputing 07 and just gave an invited talk on “The Web as the Platform for Research” at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop. I don’t think I did the best job possible at the presentation but I am in the process of evolving the ideas and how they get glued together. As…
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Students and learning
Great video of how students see education today. Krishna Madhavan showed this as part of a presentation at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop, part of SuperComputing07. Krishna‘s talk was great and his blog seems very interesting. Subscribed.(Update: trying to subscribe since Internet Explorer and Outlook don’t like the feed 🙁
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myExperiment is live
David De Roure and co told me today that the myExperiment site is going live today. They are updating the DNS entries so that myexperiment.org points to their beta site, so please be patient with them. This represents an excellent example of how the Web can help researchers. My group is actively engaged with the…
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How can you not smile…
… with these kids? 🙂 Lots of positive energy. I love it! (thanks to Becky and her Facebook FunWall)
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Great news about Dan Reed
Dan Reed is joining Microsoft. I am really looking forward to interacting with him in the area of large-scale systems and science.
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BBC and advertising
Well, I guess it was bound to happen: BBC online ‘features’ ads. It’s the sign of our online times, right? I just can’t comprehend how this ad business model has grown to a multi-billion revenue stream. I understand that I am seeing this from my own point-of-view… just because I never click on ads, never…
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Bringing the community together and a social experiment
Hey all. Dan and I were discussing about the Facebook-related prototyping I am planning for November and we realized that we don’t have a global eScience group over there. He just created one. Let’s see whether we can get the community together and then try some new “Science 2.0”-type applications 🙂 Feel free to join.
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Feedback from Bill Gates 🙂
Remember the first thinkweek paper, which I co-authored, I mentioned some time ago? Well, we got feedback from Bill Gates and it was positive 🙂 Bill only comments on a very small percentage of the thinkweek papers he receives. That email was a happy work moment 🙂 The subject of the paper? Well… some other…