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Rumesh Kumar Machap
I received a phone call from the UK early yesterday morning with sad news about the tragic death of my friend Rumesh. This is crazy, just crazy! I still can’t believe it. Those who might have seen me presenting or mentioning the White Dwarfs application would have seen (in photos) and heard of Rumesh. He…
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Buying a TV
I got lots and good information/advice from all of you guys when I wanted to buy a car; many thanks again! So, I thought I’ll try this again but now for a HDTV. I want to get a Plasma/LCD/DLP High Definition TV (getting ready for the xbox 360 :-). I am looking for a 32” to 37”…
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Chris Smith is blogging again!
I was on IM with Chris Smith of Platform Computing just now. He hadn’t told me he was blogging before despite all our drinking sessions at GGFs (although he might have told me and I didn’t remember 🙂 Subscribed!
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How cool!
Look at this interface to VirtualEarth! Wow!
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Update on my “SOAP != HTTP POST” comment
Following the comments by Parand and his updated “Simple Recipe for SOAP Echo Service” entry, I just wanted to point out that it’s not that I didn’t like the proposed hack. It’s just that I didn’t agree with the statement that SOAP “is an HTTP POST containing XML, and an HTTP response containing XML” or…
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From the blogosphere
I don’t usually do a summary post like this one but as I try to go through my ~2000 unread blog posts, I am making a note of those I find interesting. It’s nice to see that Steve’s work is causing a reaction 🙂 Dennis Pilarinos’ blog is one to watch. I have been working…
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He’s back 🙂
Yes folks, Jim is back with a “nice” word about his service providers 🙂
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WWW 2006 deadline extended after all
There is a new announcement about the WWW2006 deadline.
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WWW2006 Web Site affected by serious fire
This is from the WWW2006 Organisers Due to a serious fire at the University of Southampton, UK, the www2006.org website and mailing lists are temporarily unavailable. THE SUBMISSION PROCESSES have been unaffected by this fire, only information about the submission url, deadlines, tracks, document formatting etc has been affected. A temporary replacement website has been…
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It’s such a small world
I was at a party last night where I met few fellow Greeks (some of them working for Microsoft as well). As we were chatting and telling stories about our lives, we discovered that someone, who was not at the party, was also from my home city, Xanthi. Well, when they described her and they…