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Visiting Fellow at the University of Newcastle (or, how ‘nsp20’ came back to life 🙂
In a previous post I had mentioned how the possible visiting position at the University of Newcastle never happened. Well, Paul Watson read that post and made sure that the situation changed 🙂 I got a letter from the University‘s Human Resources department offering me a Visiting Fellow position for the next three years which, of course, I…
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How difficult can it be to comment on a technology-related legal battle on the BBC?
Without being a technology expert? “Revealed: The identity of the BBC’s latest star” is a funny story by “The Mail on Sunday”.
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Cirque du Soleil
On Thursday I went to see Varekai, a Cirque du Soleil production. It was FANTASTIC. If you ever get the chance to see them live you should (I guess their other shows are equally or even better). I am going to try to go to Las Vegas just to see their “O” show which I’ve…
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REST here, REST there, REST everywhere. Where are the REST principles though?
It’s been a long time since I wrote about my views on a WS or SOA related topic. The “Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability” article at InfoQ made me want to write something again. I can’t believe someone can write so many inaccuracies in a single article. I blame the use of the term…
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8 months in Microsoft
I haven’t been blogging lately and I haven’t been following your blogs either. I am now significantly reducing the number of blogs I am monitoring (~300 were too many) and also trying to better organize my time as part of a larger set of lifestyle changes that are coming up (read below). I have now…
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WS-Addressing a REC
The addressing specification for SOAP is finally a W3C REC! That took some time 🙂 Congrats to everyone involved!
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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…