• 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.

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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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