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“OO sucks” 🙂
I met Dominic for the first time last night over dinner. I enjoyed talking to him. He’s doing a PhD in “programming models for Web Services”. We didn’t get very much into the details but I believe that any programming support for WS will have to include constructs for asynchronous, one-way messaging and conversations. I…
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Windows Desktop Search and MSN and Google “integration”
Here’s something fun: I was reading this guide on Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and how to make it search your intranet. Once the relevant policies are applied and WDS gets restarted, an ‘intranet’ search button appears. The idea is that you can point it to a SharePoint Portal Server that has an index of all of…
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SCUBA diving
Wooo hooo! After 4 days of continuous diving (two 3-hour pool sessions and 4 dives in cold waters) I am now a certified SCUBA diver 🙂 I am hoping to practice my newly acquired skills very soon since I am going to be visiting Jim in Australia in a couple of weeks time 🙂 I am tired…
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local.live.com
Wow! I am not sure whether local.live.com should have been released today (I thought it was going to be released tomorrow) but it seems to be reachable… Check out the bird’s eye views. Fantastic. This is building 42 at the Microsoft campus. UPDATE: I am sorry. The service is not available just yet. As this article…
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Smoke kills
An antitoon: ‘Smoke kills’ 🙂
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Snowing in Seattle
The surrounding mountains have been ready for skiing for few weeks now. Now it’s snowing in Redmond. I am sooooo looking forward to going skiing again. It’s been crazy the last couple of weeks. The car arrived (it’s great… already done more than 1000 miles), I finally got a bed (I’ve been sleeping on the…
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Interacting with Encarta via IM
This is pretty cool (via Chris Sells). You add encarta@conversagent.com as a contact in your MSN Messenger contacts list and then you can start interacting with Encarta. I started by issuing the following questions for which I got exactly the answers I was expecting: I want to see a map of Xanthi Where is Thessaloniki? How…
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Rumesh online memorial
The folks at Newcastle created an online memorial for Rumesh (see my earlier post).
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SOAP over SMTP in Indigo
Steve is the man! Very very cool.