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January 2009 - Savas Weblog

  • Help! please... Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

    I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one... Few months ago I read in Robert ’s blog about the distinction he made...
  • Windows 7

    I am seriously impressed. A huge improvement, in terms of speed and responsiveness from Vista. I’ve been using the M3 build of Windows 7 for some time now but the Beta 1 is awesome. I love the “boot from a VHD” feature. It’s going to be available for...
  • 2 wives, 87 children?

    This is just crazy. Over the weekend and during a conversation with my skiing baddies Simran and Theoni, Simran mentioned the story of a woman who had 69 children!!! We couldn’t believe it so he just sent us the reference. Apparently it’s a story from...
  • 2TB disk for $300!

    This is just “WOW”!!! Western Digital just released a new 2TB disk . Time to upgrade my home storage solution :-) As always, James is keeping track and analyzing storage-related costs . Read More...
  • Famulus hits the road

    Alex Wade and I are going to be in the UK in February to talk and showcase Famulus. We are going to have the new bits with us for developers to play with and new features and samples to talk about. Here’s the announcement. MSR Research Output Repository...
  • Great Coldplay video

    Yes, I am a big fun! :-) Thanks to Nuno for forwarding. Read More...
  • Skiing with Jim

    It’s been a wonderful weekend so far. The weather has been amazing: sunshine and blue sky. The snow was not fantastic, though, but we can’t have everything. It’s been absolutely fantastic seeing Jim and his wife again. I miss it how we tease each other...
  • Discovering new music

    On Thursday I was at Big Daddy ’s for Fractal ’s visit to the Pacific North-West. Netflix ’s Adrian Cockcroft has been a “roadie” since their beginning and listed under “guilt by association” on the band’s site* :-). He made the trip with them so it was...
  • Lazy morning/afternoon and book writing

    It’s been a lazy day so far. It’s really sunny and wonderful outside. I got the chance to relax, have coffee with Santosh , roam between coffee places, late lunch at the Hilltop , and also work on that Web-related book that Jim , Ian , and I are writing...
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