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Environmental Sciences
In my new role in Microsoft‘s Technical Computing group I get to work with scientists from all disciplines, which is very cool. I am particularly looking forward, though, to working with environmental scientists. Yesterday, Roger Barga, fellow Technical Computing Architect, and I visited the University of Washington to talk with Keith Grochow. I was very…
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Vancouver Half Marathon
My ultimate goal is to do a full marathon in around a year’s time. In preparing for that, I am going to do 2-3 more half-marathons. I just registered myself for the Vancouver Half Marathon in May. I am going to be more careful this time and since this seems to be a flat race…
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"Amateur"
I guess I am late in seeing this video (1.5 million other people have seen it already). I think it’s highly creative and very artistic.
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XNA Game Studio Express Released!
This is great news. I am looking forward to playing with it. To download the released product for Windows, head over to: http://msdn.com/xna/gse/. Full story.
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SOAP – "The S stands for Simple"
I guess I am always playing catch-up with blog posts these days. Anyway, I just read this one about SOAP and I think it’s brilliant. Interesting comments as well 🙂 Unfortunately, it’s soooo true 🙁
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Swivel – "YouTube for Data"
I was pointed to this post about Swivel, a new company aiming to collect the world’s data. Their business model? The service allows you to correlate data freely. The data you upload is available to everyone. But if you want to take advantage of the service without making your data available to others, then you…
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Skiing season started early
It was a fantastic first day of skiing at Crystal Mountain! Dennis and friends were there too. Had a blast! (photo from Crystal Mountain‘s photo gallery)
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3D Mashups!
Great 3D mashup. Combination of geology and morphology. via the Virtual Earth blog.
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Grid Evolution vs Grid Intelligent Design
(Disclaimer: As with everything that is posted on this blog, these are my personal opinions and not those of my employer or my direct manager 🙂 As a result of the recent post on Web Fundamentalism by Ian Foster, with whom I had a very interesting conversation over breakfast at SC06, I have been considering whether my thoughts on…
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Seattle Half-Marathon
So, after months of training (I had to start from zero), I finally did the Seattle Half-Marathon this morning. Time: 2.01′ 🙁 Not even close to the 1.45′ I was aiming for but given the circumstances I am not dissapointed. It was cold (it was actually snowing at 6.30am, when I woke up, and it’s snowing again…