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May 2009 - Savas Weblog

  • “How many roads must a man walk...”

    Some of you might know that Bob Dylan is amongst my favorite artists. I’ve seen him only twice so I can’t wait to see him again. Probably sometime this year since he’s touring again to support his new album. So I love the way that WolframAlpha answers...
    Published 05-27-2009 3:04 PM by savas
  • Jim is training the world :-)

    Just noticed from his tweet feed that Jim is going to be sharing his brains through the Web . I suspect (haven’t talked to him about this yet) that he’s going to present most of the thinking that we are putting in our Web book. I know that I am biased...
    Published 05-26-2009 3:42 PM by savas
  • My site in other languages

    As part of our Scholarly Communications -related activities in Atlanta ( check out my previous post about Zentity v1.0), Alex Wade is going to talk tomorrow about a cool service: Translator . The web form-based translation does not represent anything...
    Published 05-21-2009 2:14 AM by savas
  • A joke... capturing the Greek mentality towards work

    Few nights ago, my friends Sophie and David came over for dinner with my parents . It was a lovely evening. During the dinner conversation, my father said the following joke that I think captures the Greek mentality towards work, especially by public...
    Published 05-10-2009 5:31 PM by savas
  • The Digital Inclusion Hub at Newcastle

    Paul Watson , my PhD supervisor, has recently started using twitter . I really love the fact that he’s stays in touch with all the recent technologies :-) Amongst other things, he tweets about the Digital Inclusion Hub , an initiative in the UK for which...
    Published 05-07-2009 8:57 PM by savas
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