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Woo hoo! I exist again.
For almost a week now I felt as if I didn’t exist. Not having a Web presence and not having personal email has been a weird experience. After for some many years counting on my personal domain name (savas.parastatidis.name), it was strange not having it around. Here’s the full story… I wanted to move my…
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Tony Hey to keynote at OGF 20
I won’t be at OGF20 (attending W3C’s WWW 2007 instead) but my manager, Tony Hey, will be there. He will be delivering one of the two keynotes. His working title is “The Social Grid” and this is the abstract: The community has been making rapid progress in defining interoperable protocols for Grid computing. We now have…
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Glastonbury, here I come!
Woo hoo! After 45 mins of continuously dialing (using my cell phone and Skype), I was able to get through and buy Glastonbury tickets for myself, Carole, David, and Meropi. I am soooo excited. Glastonbury 2007, here we come again!
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China trip over, next stop MIX 07
My trip in China just finished. I am safely back home and looking forward to my next trip, next week. It was a fantastic visit. I was fascinated by the work that MSR Asia is doing and the great number of clever people here. The working environment is great and very stimulating. I will seriously…
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Wow! Cool! Xbox Live original TV content.
The Xbox team continues to do great things. Now, if only they listen to our encouragements and enable networking on the XNA platform so that we can see some cool, distributed computing scientific applications 🙂
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Landed in Beijing
I am very excited. Although I am tired, I am off to start exploring. Tomorrow, I am spending a full day at the prestigious Tsinghua University talking to engineers about a project with which we are going to be involved on distributed, large-scale simulation of the power grid infrastructure and power consumption/disaster analysis. This is a new domain…
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China, Mix, and W3C’s WWW07
So, I am on my way to China today but there is more traveling ahead and opportunities to reconnect with the community. I am going to be at Mix 07 in Las Vegas from 29th April to 2nd May. Then it’s the Vancouver half-marathon (I am not really really prepare for it but I’ll give it…
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Beijing for a week
I am so looking forward to this trip. I am going to be engaged on a technical level with a couple of projects in China (related to social networking and the power grid) so I hope I’ll be a frequent visitor over there. I was always fascinated by the country and the culture; finally I have the…
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NASA in Second Life and "Open Sourcing" the Space Program
I just read this post over at Slashdot. NASA is using SecondLife to “Open Source” some of the activities and encourage public participation. Very interesting use of social networking (isn’t SecondLife really a type of a social network? A network of social networks if you will). Now, when will my laptop be finally able to run…
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"Pearls Before Breakfast"
Non-technology related (soon I hope to have categories on this blog) Interesting article on our appreciation of art. Of course I believe that art is always subjective but I found that the article does convey a point about our fast pace of life and our inability/unwillingness to stand for a moment and pay attention to…