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April 2009 - Savas Weblog

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  • “The Commons” is impressive

    On Friday I visited “The Commons”, Microsoft ’s latest building complex. It includes restaurants, shops, a football (“soccer” for the Americans) field, basketball, tables and chairs outside. It’s beautiful. It’s like a shopping center inside the Microsoft...
    Published 04-28-2009 1:56 PM by savas

  • Location awareness and semantic data mashups

    One of the main reasons I went through the pain of rewriting the blog engine and restructuring my entire web site was the ease/flexibility of development. I wanted to be able to add new features easily so I could experiment with some ideas around data...
    Published 04-24-2009 5:33 PM by savas

  • My digital timeline

    Well, instead of putting daily notes of what’s going on , I created a “timeline” page that gives access to the history of what I’ve been up to. At the moment, it only gives access to my tweets but over time it would probably have more information (links...
    Published 04-22-2009 5:49 PM by savas

  • Apologies for the many “daily notes” posts

    There was a bug, which surfaced only on the hosting service*, resulting in multiple “daily notes” being submitted. I didn’t notice it until after >30 of them were added. I have now deleted them and disabled the new feature until I figure out what’s...
    Published 04-21-2009 2:14 PM by savas

  • Wow... impressed with my Zune...

    My Zune survived both a complete washing cycle and 2 hours in my dryer. Should I be worried about the state of my washing machine? :-) Read More...
    Published 04-05-2009 9:16 PM by savas

  • The little things you notice...

    ... when you spend too much time at home being ill :-) I’ve been in bed for the last 2 1/2 days. I don’t remember when it was the last time I was so sick, with high fever, constant coughing, and no energy at all. I am much better now but I have almost...
    Published 04-05-2009 2:03 AM by savas
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