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On my way to Greece
I am on my way to Greece for much needed holidays. It’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my family and friends (last time I saw them was back in August 2005). Soooo looking forward to some relaxing time. There has been soooo much going on lately. I should be in a position to…
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chmod 777 Web
As I was quickly browsing through the Oct 06 issue of IEEE Spectrum the other day, I came across a column at the very last page that talked about new words/terms being created and used on the Web. I had never come across the “chmod 777 web” one. From my many years of Unix-related work, it immediately made sense…
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Call for Papers for WWW2007 – Web Services
The Call for Papers (Web Services track) for WWW2007 is now available. Paul Watson and Jim Webber are the chairs for the program committee, which includes great people from the Web Services industry/research community. I am really honored to be part of this group of people and I am really confident we can put a…
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The Newcastle team WON the SCC 06 Contest!
Congratulations to the Newcastle team for their fantastic efforts. They had already done great to qualify to the final round but the news just came in that they have taken 1st place in the Service-Oriented Computing Contest (SCContest 2006), part of SCC 06. I am really pleased especially because SSDL played a key role in their…
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Thomas is visiting
My friend Thomas is visiting for few days from Switzerland. After a karaoke night yesterday (Thomas insisted in us singing “Dancing Queen” by ABBA since “Barbie Girl” was not available… oh the shame :-), today we dropped by the Microsoft Visitor Center. Here’s a postcard from there. There is some Salsa, clubbing, yoga, and other activities planned…
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Savas: Before-After
Many of you asked for photographs showing the results of my lifestyle changes. Here it goes. This is me 15 weeks ago and then again on Friday, 43 lbs smaller. As I have already mentioned, the plan is to loose some more over the next few months. I think this is going to be my last…
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Doh! I am going to miss Bob Dylan
One day after I book my flights to go to Greece for holidays in October, it’s announced that Bob Dylan will be coming to Seattle for a concert one day after I go. I’ve already seen him live twice but I’d have loved to see him again. Oh well.
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Geek alert: making career decisions in Scheme?
You know you are a geek when your notes about your next career move can actually be evaluated in Scheme 🙂 Oh… making career decisions when you love every aspect of technology and the people you work with is so difficult! ; A list of good things (define (Pros GoodThings) (list ‘Pros GoodThings)) ; A…
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CCGrid 07 Call for Papers
The CCGrid 07 conference’s CfP (PDF) is now available. We are looking for exciting papers. Please make my reviewing hours interesting 🙂
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Lifestyle change update No3
Friday was my last day of phase 1 of my 20/20 Lifestyles program. It’s been fifteen weeks since I started and I am now 43 lbs smaller, feeling very healthy, eating well, and at a much better fitness level. However, this is just the beginning; I am planning to keep this up for the rest of…