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November 2007 - Savas Weblog

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  • Seattle Half-Marathon :-(

    I didn't do the same mistakes as the last Seattle Half-Marathon but I did do the same as the Vanvouver one . I was prepared for the cold, proper runner's t-shirt and long-sleeved top, gloves, hat, etc. The weather turned out to be beautiful, blue...

  • /. and misreporting

    We all know and love Slashdot for its anti- Microsoft , pro-Linux commentary. I follow it almost every day and I always smile with the Microsoft -related posts. It's ok, it's fun. I still haven't digested the blue pill I was given when I joined...

  • New toy

    Just bought the new 8GB Zune (the black one) . I've finally moved away from the iPod (not that I don't like them... it's just that my old 60GB iPod was failing on me). Can't wait to get the 80GB Zune one as well, when it becomes available...

  • "The Web as the Platform for Research"

    I am at SuperComputing 07 and just gave an invited talk on "The Web as the Platform for Research" at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop . I don't think I did the best job possible at the presentation but I am in the process of...

  • Students and learning

    Great video of how students see education today . Krishna Madhavan showed this as part of a presentation at the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) workshop , part of SuperComputing07 . Krishna 's talk was great and his blog seems very interesting....

  • myExperiment is live

    David De Roure and co told me today that the myExperiment site is going live today. They are updating the DNS entries so that myexperiment.org points to their beta site, so please be patient with them. This represents an excellent example of how the Web...

  • How can you not smile...

    ... with these kids ? :-) Lots of positive energy. I love it! (thanks to Becky and her Facebook FunWall) Read More...
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