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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…
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Alternative Mac Ads
No wonder I thought everyone was taking a break from blogging 🙂 My feeds got really messed up from the many installations of our latest internal Outlook 2007 builds (I am using Outlook as my feed reader these days), and I didn’t notice for few days till today. I was out for dinner yesterday (like…
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No more cable
I haven’t really been watching a lot of TV since I came to the US and especially over the last couple of months (I am out most of the time:-) So today I disconnected my cable TV service. I just kept my cable Internet connection. It’s interesting how they are willing to half your monthly…
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Zidane
I watched the final with friends at my place yesterday. I still can’t believe Zidane’s action. No matter what he was told, there was no excuse. He’s still, though, one of the best players around and it’s unfortunate that one of his worst moments (we all have some of those) happened at his last international game…
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Paul Watson visiting
Just picked up Paul from the airport. He’s visiting Microsoft for a week. It’s so great to have him around. Looking forward to hearing all about the Newcastle folks and discussing his latest adventures.
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Back online
Apologies to all for the SSDL, Jim‘s, and my websites/blogs downtime. Due to construction work going on at the building hosting our server, there was no electricity for few days. Unfortunately the warning message never reached us (my fault for not monitoring my University account often) so we couldn’t inform you. Hopefully, we are now back…
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Meeting Robert Anderson
It was really nice talking to Robert last week. I’ve been aware of Digipede since my UK e-Science days. Great stuff!
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An update on my lifestyle change efforts
As I have already mentioned, I started a long-term effort to loose weight and get fit. I think I’ve been doing great so far on both aspects. I have already lost ~25 lbs over the last 56 weeks and last week I run 5.1 miles in 46 mins. I am still far away from my target…
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REST and the Robotics Application Model
Mark Nottingham highlights the use of the term ‘REST’ by the Microsoft robotics folks. I also think that there is a suggestion in Mark‘s post about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, used to be known as Indigo) not necessarily being a good fit for RESTful applications. As I have said many times in the past, Web Services is a suite of…