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Thinking of buying a motorcycle
I am seriously considering buying a motorcyle (touring or dual sport). I’ve been looking around and I think I like the BMWs. Dual sport: F640 GS R1200 GS Touring: F800 ST R1200 ST I think I like the R1200 GS more than the others but I wonder whether I should start with something smaller given…
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At Google’s offices in New York
After a long week of visits at Cornell, MIT, and Harvard, I had few days of holidays in New York (I love this city). As always when I am visiting a city (this was my second time in NY), I did lots of exploring and relaxing (no work! :-). It’s been fantastic. Today is the…
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Middle Ages Tech Support
My colleague Lee Dirks and I are visiting Cornell, MIT, and Harvard over the next few days, before I go to New York for few days of holidays and then an OAI-ORE meeting. While at the meeting with the arXiv folks today, the “Middle Ages Tech Support” video was mentioned, which I thought was funny…
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Microsoft PopFly
Wow! I started using PopFly today and is sooooo cool! The “Create Mashup” tool is effectively dataflow (very much like Yahoo Pipes!) built using Silverlight so you can use it on the Mac too. The “Create Page” is also interesting because of its Ribbon interface and editing capabilities. The possibilities for scientific collaboration, especially around…
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The Manycore Computing Workshop
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been organizing the Manycore Computing workshop, sponsored by my group. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with top people from the industry and academia while putting together the program and list of attendees (the workshop is by-invitation only). We already have >70 people confirmed plus ~30 from Microsoft.…
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Pat Helland is back in the blogosphere
Woo hoo! He’s back and he’s full of energy! I got to spend some time with Lisa and Pat at Mix07 and had a blast with them. They did try to get me drunk and almost succeeded. I’ll have to return the favor soon 🙂 I am soooo excited to be interacting with Pat. His…
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Tony Hey’s slides on "The Social Grid"
Tony Hey‘s slides on “The Social Grid” are now available (6.5MB PDF). This talk focused on the value of using the Web and its existing, stable technologies to deliver value to eScience. It also encouraged the Grid community to consider modern Web usage patterns and technologies, like “software-as-a-service”, social networking, semantics, as the means to meet…
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In W3C
It’s so nice to see Jim here. We are about to embark on some pair-coding. The landscape around the conference’s hotel is just breathtaking.
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On my way to Banff for W3C’s WWW 2007
In few hours I will be flying to Banff for the WWW 2007 conference. Jim is also going to be there. Paul as well. Also, many others from the Web community so I am really looking forward to meeting everyone.
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Vancouver half-marathon
Well, the Vancouver half marathon over. I am not very pleased with my performance. I knew that I wasn’t prepared as well I should have been, so I guess I should have expected this. I finished in around 2h3m (2 mins slower than last time 🙁 This time I was careful and I did not…