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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…
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Unbelievable!!! Greece went through to the final!
Wow! The Greek team beat the USA to go through to the final of the 2006 Fiba World Championship. From what I read on the news, everyone in Greece has gone mad again 🙂 (source www.sport24.gr)
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"OK Go – Here It Goes Again"
Very funny (Link to YouTube – OK Go – Here It Goes Again). Via Doug.
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PLinq – Very cool
I am really glad to see that many of the ideas of functional programming are finding their way into mainstream. Once our programs are captured declartively (e.g. using Abstract Syntax Trees as in LINQ), opportunities for implicitly identifying and exploiting parallelism emerge. NIP was all about that but we didn’t go as far as integrating…
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Even more Mac Ads
The keep making new ones and they are still great!
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Web overlays: Some thoughts about machine-processable knowledge representation
(I have been pondering on whether I should post this for some time now. Let’s see what happens.) A while back I read the “Google exec challenges Berners-Lee” article and I was trying hard to find any real challenge to Tim Burners-Lee‘s position. I am very much a believer of machine-processable knowledge representation (perhaps influenced by the…
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This is from Windows Live Writer
This post is being written using Windows Live Writer, which is great! I had to add minimal support for the MetaWeblog API to pblog because the beta version of Windows Live Writer (here’s the SDK) does not yet allow you to add new providers so I couldn’t add supprot for pblog’s Web Services-based publishing protocol. My apologies…