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Chapter-proposals for “Securing Web Services” deadline extended
The “Securing Web Services: Practical Usage of Standards and Specifications” book looks like a very good opportunity to publish your work in the area of Web Services security. The deadline for chapter proposals has been extended till March 24. Panos (the editor) has been doing some excellent work on security for the GOLD project so I…
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“Post-Modern”
Woke up this morning with fever. On Friday we finished a milestone for our project and presented it internally. It went great. However, instead of sleeping all weekend as a way to ‘relax’ from the team’s last sprint, I did the exact opposite. I went out on Friday night for dinner with friends. Dave Ingham, who turned…
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Went skiing again!
Woo hoo! After two winter seasons without skiing due to my knee injury (bad turn while playing basketball) and subsequent operation, I finally went to the slopes again today. It was fantastic. One of the best days of skiing I’ve ever had. Beautiful day; sunny, blue sky, not that cold, no queues at the lifts at…
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“Web” or “Grid” – Isn’t it ironic?
For a long time I’ve been saying that the Grid is nothing but an application domain of distributed computing and that it needs no new infrastructure. Our latest paper supports this statement and proposes the use of stable infrastructure technologies (in the WS-* space) for realizing high-level, Grid application domain-specific services. Mark Baker suggested we…
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Geometry Wars on Xbox 360
Wow, I am amazed! I can’t even score beyond 100,000 points in Geometry Wars when the game score leader has done 16,000,000!!! There is a video of his record setting game. Chris Anderson is already beyond 2,000,000! I have long way to go 🙂
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Funny CS quotes
Simon sent around this link to computing-related quotes. Funny!
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An evolutionary approach to realizing the Grid computing vision
Over the last few weeks I worked together with Marvin Theimer, Marty Humphrey, Tony Hey, and Geoffrey Fox on a Grid related paper which has now been distributed to the community*. The paper describes an evolutionary approach to designing and standardizing services specific to the Grid application domain. It promotes the use of stable and widely-accepted specifications…
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Xbox 360!
Oh yes! On Friday, my manager and I went to our local BestBuy after we were informed by Xbox 360 tracker that there were consoles available there (I must remember to make a donation to the guy who wrote it). We got there by 12.15pm (that store has a policy of releasing any available consoles…
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So close to getting an Xbox 360 today
I woke up this morning and run the xbox360 tracker just in case. It told me that there some Xbox 360s available at BestBuy in Lynnwood (north of Seattle). It was around 7.30 in the morning (well, very early for me) so once I got ready I headed that way before coming to work. I didn’t…
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Greek .NET community
Chris Georgakopoulos pointed me to a very cool .NET community site in Greece: dotnetzone.gr (in Greek). Cool job guys!