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Brilliant adverts!
“Get a Mac” adverts.
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Blurring the boundaries between virtual reality and the real world
It’s not a surprise to see the boundaries being crossed. Sci-Fi writers have been writing about it for some time and over the last few years we’ve experienced technological advances in online gaming indicating the direction. Nevertheless, I still find BBC‘s account of the most recent development in this space a good read. This space…
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“Goal! Dream Begins”
I watched the “Soccer” 🙂 channel for a bit on cable and I saw the end of the interview with the producer of “Goal! The Dream Begins” which is the first movie of a trilogy with a football-related storyline. The producer mentioned Newcastle so I tried to find information about the movie. It seems that…
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Vista filesystem encryption an anti-Linux feature?
I don’t use my blog to defend Microsoft or any of its products. Even before I came to Redmond, I tried to stay away from any discussions/arguments related to Linux vs MacOS vs Windows. I started using Linux back in ’92 or ’93 and it served me well during my PhD work. I always supported…
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The safe/unsafe Web and what’s that X-Bender header?
It’s been very refreshing to see recent discussions about why/how the Web works moving away from the REST vs SOA argument, or POX vs WS, or how cool AJAX is. Here are few links to get you started: Don: “HTTP, XML, REST, and $100“, “coming out“, “spending the $100“, and “Sam’s two webs“ Sam: “Two Webs“…
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“Windows Live Academic Search” launched
The Windows Live Academic Search is finally online. They have some unique features compared to Google Scholar (BibTex and EndNote citations, “Sort by” option, abstracts, etc.). I know from an internal mailing list that they are actively tuning the relevance algorithm so the results should be even better. Together with Google Scholar, academics now have…
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FW: Checkin #1383521
Beautiful. Don comments. You wanted to do XML over HTTP you said? WCF can now help you! Well done to Steve and others for pushing this.
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RIP nsp20
It was October 1st, 1995 when I started my MSc. degree at the University of Newcastle and when I was given the ‘nsp20’ handle which I used for more than 10 years. My account at the Newcastle systems didn’t expire immediately after my departure back in August because there were discussions about a possible “Visiting Research Fellow” post.…
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Seattle throughout the day
Dawn Afternoon Night And the sunset from Alki beach…
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When control flow semantics leak
Interesting comments by Mark on my last post (in case you don’t follow my comments).