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Vista feels great
I have been “dog fooding” Windows Vista for some time now. It has not been without pains. However, recent builds feel fantastic. I can finally run my screen’s laptop at 120dpi without any problems; the environment looks sooooo beautiful when in high-DPI mode (better than anything I’ve seen). The entire experience is really smooth and Vista is…
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Technical Directory post at University of Newcastle
Just saw an announcement about the e-Science group at Newcastle is looking for a technical director. With so many going in Newcastle in the area of e-Science and with the great and extremely exciting projects that Prof. Paul Watson is involved in, this is a fantastic opportunity. I would strongly urge anyone with interest in…
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A book recipe
I have been trying to persuade Jim to let me blog about our book for some time now. I thought that by blogging about our book-related efforts, we’d be forced to keep up with our self-imposed (but so far not met) deadlines (I am very much the culprit on this one). It turns out that…
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Comments on “Names and addresses” – a different view
In case you don’t follow the comments on my blog, there is an interesting exchange under my previous post on the subject.
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Optimistic Concurrency
I’ve been looking at synchronization-related concepts lately. It’s been really nice to revisit some ideas/concepts from my PhD years (e.g. consistency models for shared data in distributed environments). ‘Optimistic concurrency’ is a term I’ve encountered a lot and I just read the “Optimistic concurrency – a false panacea” post by Yaro Goland (via Mark Baker).…
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“Names and addresses” – a different view
I have discussed the issue of identity, naming, and addresses for large-scale distributed systems in the past (e.g. “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions“, “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies“, “WS-Web (The Web using SOAP:-)“, and more). It’s a topic that keeps coming up. It was part of our…
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CCGrid07 Call for Papers
I really need to start saying “no” to Program Committee invitations 🙂 Here’s another one (PDF) I am on for CCGrid07.
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Yoga!
This morning I went to my first yoga class. It was fantastic. Since I’ve been going to the gym almost every weekday for the last couple of months, I think a Saturday-morning yoga class would be great for relaxing. I am going to start doing this regularly since it was such a great fun.
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Green card
As of today I am a permanent resident of the US. That was fast! (Around 10 months since I came to the US and around 8 I think since the green card process started) No more long queues when I re-enter the US (I hope:-)
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Newcastle team in the finals of the IEEE Service-oriented Computing Contest
Well done to the Newcastle team of students and to Aad van Moorsel for managing/supervising this fantastic effort. Back in January, I posted an entry about the IEEE Service Computing Contest (SCContest 2006). A team was formed and only in few months the students delivered with Aad providing excellent direction. Jim and I were monitoring their progress via the…