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One week in Seattle
A week has already gone! And it has been fantastic apart from the jetlag from which I have only now recovered (other times I traveled to the west coast it wasn’t this bad). Today (Sunday) the weather was excellent. I was walking around the city all day. Few silly tips if you ever decide to…
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End of a wonderful first week with a social event
Apparently there are quite a few of those here on the Microsoft campus where everyone gets together for a drink and some food. This time it was Greek food (I guess the word of my arrival was spread around :-). I met Becky Dias with whom I had interacted quite a few times when WSE…
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MS Research e-Science Workshop and GGF
As Dan Fey wrote in his blog, there is going to be an e-Science event here in Redmond early in October, the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2005. I will get the chance to meet some of my friends from the e-Science/Grid community and see Jim Gray again after HPTS. Also, Tony Hey is giving a…
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Welcome John!
John Bristowe joins Microsoft. Welcome John! (he he, I’ve only been here for five days and I have the nerve to welcome others! 🙂
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Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster edition!
Hey, if you have a cluster around, you should definitely try this. Hmmm, I probably need to go and introduce myself to that team and check out what they are up to. I guess the feature set, mostly MPI-based at the moment from what I can see, is already set in stone for release one.…
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I am blue (which means I got my MS ID)
Things are going great! The weather has been fantastic since I came (however, I am assured by those living here that it’s not always like this). The trip to/from work is very pleasant due to the fantastic landscape. I am still seriously jetlagged. Today I woke up at 6am (yesterday it was 5am) to come…
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First date at Microsoft (orientation)
I was surprised with the number of new recruits starting on the same date (3 digits and still bellow the average for a Monday!!!). Tim Russell of Human Resources was extremely enthusiastic and did an excellent job throughout the day. A great presenter. He managed to convey so much information to us (culture, benefits, security,…
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Mark Baker on an Ian Foster paper
Mark Baker picked up on an early draft of a paper about managing and accessing state that Prof. Ian Foster wrote some time ago and sent to a mailing list for comments. Paul Watson, Mark Mc Keown, and I are now co-authors on that paper (well, I hope our names are still there given that I haven’t…
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Seattle, I am here!
I have finally arrived! After a looooong journey, which lasted around 40 hours, I am now settled in a fantastic building in downtown Seattle, “The Olympus”. I had noticed this building during my previous visits here because it looked like a nice place to live but didn’t know how it was called. Imagine my surprise when…
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British Airways: “Not so fast…”
Well, next stop was supposed to be Seattle but thanks to British Airways I am still around 🙂 My flight from Newcastle to London was cancelled and as a result I have been stranded at Newcastle airport for the last 7 hours (all the other flights in between were fully booked). Of course I missed…