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Having sooooo much fun
I am back in Seattle. I had a full day at work today and it was soooo much fun. I get to have long meetings and/or 1-1s with guys like Don Box, Oliver Sharp, Chris Sells (who btw is my MS “buddy” and he’s doing an excellent job helping me integrate… thanks Chris), Geoff Kizer, and…
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WWW 2006 deadline is coming up fast
Make those fingers work faster on your keyboard… The deadline for WWW 2006 is only a month away. Please read the call for papers.
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In Boston for the GGF
I arrived in Boston today for the GGF. I walked around the city and went out tonight with my friends Jon and Chris from previous GGFs. What a fun night. Boston is fantastic!!! Although the last two GGFs were supposed to be my last ones, I am here because the usual Microsoft people that come…
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Impressed with office communicator
When I read this post about Office Communicator from Don Box (that was before I joined Microsoft), I was impressed. Just few minutes ago, Paul Watson (he gave a talk at MS Research earlier) called me from another MS building. Office Communicator realised that I was in front of my laptop working, so it notified…
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MVP Summit
For those of you who are at the MVP Summit this week here at Microsoft please note that unfortunately the “WS-Sushi 2” dinner may have to be postponed until next year. I’ve been away at HPTS so I couldn’t organise it for one of the previous days and from today onwards Microsoft has already scheduled other events.…
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Back from HPTS
Wow! Was that a workshop or what? That’s how all technology/research/science meetings should be. It must have been the best workshop/conference I’ve attended so far. What’s HPTS? It’s a group of scientists and industry people getting together and talking about stuff. HPTS likes databases, transaction processing, scalable systems, etc. However, those of us talking about Web…
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At HPTS
Early in the morning I flew to San Francisco where I met Paul Watson, Mark Little, and Dan Kuo. We drove down to the Asilomar Conference Centre for the HPTS. It was a great drive. We took route 1 by the Pacific coast and we stopped at places on the way. This was the same route…
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Blog disclaimer coming
One thing I was planning to do as soon as I joined Microsoft, but haven’t got the chance to do so until now, is to write a disclaimer about my blog posts from now on. I am posting the disclaimer next as a separate post so I can link it separately. UPDATE: Apologies, I decided…
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The WS-* specifications
Great poster (via Stefan). Our industry WS-* leaders, and all of us (Web and Web Services advocates together), should have a good look at this poster and perhaps take a moment to reflect… where did all go wrong? Why are there specs doing the same thing in a slightly different way? Why some of the…
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MVP Summit next week
The 2005 MVP Global Summit is taking place next week (28 Sep – 1 Oct) here in Redmond. I know that some of you are going to be around and have already expressed an interest in getting together for dinner and/or drinks. So, how about you send me an email with your preferred night and…