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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…
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Domain name troubles still ahead
Just a quick update! The process is taking longer than expected and the domain name troubles may still be ahead of us. There is a good chance of my personal email and this website not working for 5-6 days in the near future. My apologies but I just don’t know the exact date.
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XIOS – A "CloudOS"
This space is heating up. I signed up for a beta account. XIOS is an OS that can be launched from a Web browser but then can continue to operate while offline? Hmmm… What’s the difference between that a .NET application that can be launched from a browser and interact with cloud services using POX…
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No email/no web for a week!
My domain name adventures continue. savas@parastatidis.name will not work and the web site will not be accessible for about a week. Apologies to all for the inconvenience. This is frustrating but it seems to be the only way 🙁 You can use <firstname>.<lastname> (at) microsoft (dot) com if you need to reach me.
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From the Web: "Free Hugs Campaign"
One of the YouTube awarded videos. Brilliant!