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Lunar Eclipse
My very good friend Colette is visiting from Vancouver for few days. Last night we agreed to wake up at 3.30am to see the lunar eclipse from my balcony. The sky was clear (amazing for Seattle 🙂 and the view was fantastic; something like this… (credit: Astronomy for Beginners) The last few days have been
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I am in Microsoft Research
After posting my last entry on the ThinkWeek paper, it occurred to me that I haven’t mentioned the fact that my team, Technical Computing @ Microsoft, is part of Microsoft Research now. Yes, exciting times even though not part of my plan when I joined Microsoft. You see, two years ago I opted to join
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My first ThinkWeek paper
Today Roger Barga* and I submitted a ThinkWeek** paper. It’s my first since I joined Microsoft and I am really excited about it. Roger of course has submitted a number in his long and successful career in Microsoft Research. I thought that my first ThinkWeek paper would be on ‘data networking’ and ‘knowledge mashups’, since
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Jim on InfoQ… 11 years and he still can’t pronounce my last name… 🙂
We first met on October 1st, 1996, when we ended up sharing an office in Newcastle while starting our PhDs (we started on the same date and we finished 4 years later with only few hours difference… he finished ahead of me by few hours but I got through the viva first :-). 11 years
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🙂 Tattoo
It’s done!
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Pacific North-West Summer
It’s been like this for 2 days now 🙁 and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. WHERE IS THE SUMMER???
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At HPTS this year
HPTS is not going to be the same with Jim still missing. However, I am looking forward to attending and contributing, through my participation, to this excellent meeting that my Microsoft mentor had been organizing all these years. I just received the official invitation from Pat, who took over as the General Chair. See you
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"Red Shift", yes it’s good… Is anyone talking about gravitational collapse though?
I read the article on “Red Shift” today. “Red-shift” is Greg Papadopoulos‘ attempt to put a name to what we are all seeing happening with “cloud/utility computing”. While the article contains some nice examples of companies actually making use of cloud infrastructure services, I find the attempt to use scientific language to characterize the trend
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"The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure"
Lee did an excellent job in putting this together! It looks extremely interesting. You can download the entire issue (in PDF). Introduction Lee Dirks, Microsoft Corporation Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing Cyberinfrastructure Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Next-Generation Implications of Open Access Paul Ginsparg, Cornell
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XBox 360 "Ring of Death" 🙁
Yes, it was about time it happened to me 🙁 I guess I should be happy that Microsoft decided to set aside $1B!!! to help consumers like me with this problem. But… $1B!!! Although my console is out of warranty, they are fixing it at no cost. However, no one said that I won’t have