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How to solve the energy crisis...

“It's the one-man fight against global warning! All I need to do is stick a wire up your butt, and hey presto, no more CO2 problems." This is what one of my best friends wrote while we were chatting because I keep talking about positive and negative...

Published 10-07-2009 8:45 AM by savas

Filed under: Personal

It’s sooo good to be on the road again :-)

I am doing the Cascades loop this weekend on my motorbike. It feels sooooo good to be on the road again. I spent most of my day at Lake Chelan at the “Rhythms on the Lake Music Festival”. Beautiful music and lots of dancing. Met new people and felt totally...

Published 09-27-2009 4:13 AM by savas

Filed under: Personal, Travel

The importance of friends in my life

I try my best in my life to be a good friend to everyone. Sometimes I do mistakes. I seriously apologize to those whom I might have hurt. I do hope that in most times I am someone to whom my friends can count. Over emotional times, I realize how lucky...

Published 09-13-2009 11:39 PM by savas

Filed under: Personal

Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research

I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft’s External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of what the team is doing. I had the honor/pleasure of working with some of the folks in the video. Although I have stayed in touch...

Published 08-10-2009 6:14 PM by savas

Filed under: Microsoft, Research

102F, 40C – Officially the hottest day in recorded history

I am amongst those who don’t complain! I miss the hot weather (coupled with being on the beach of course). This is my third summer in Seattle and I love it so far. It’s been absolutely beautiful. Blue skies, warm nights, people are out all the time, Washington...

Published 07-30-2009 12:18 AM by savas

Filed under: Environment, General

The author of the windows file copy dialog visits some friends...

This is indeed very funny (thanks to Lee for forwarding :-) (source xkcd ) Read More...

Published 07-29-2009 3:51 AM by savas

Filed under: General

Now, that’s a wedding entrance...

... worth blogging about :-) Well done to all involved for being creative and doing something different :-) YouTube video (sorry, no embedding). (via Karen’s Facebook status update). Read More...

Published 07-28-2009 2:07 AM by savas

Filed under: Web

Keeping track of my running with RunKeeper

RunKeeper is a very cool app for the iPhone. I tried it yesterday and today for my runs and it’s working pretty well. I have to try harder to bring back my level of fitness (if the numbers are correct :-). I also need to check in my next run whether the...

Published 07-26-2009 1:09 AM by savas

Filed under: Personal

SciScope available (including source code)

This is another offering from my previous team and my good friend Bora (who I think is an upcoming star in Microsoft ). SciScope (see it live ) is a prototype web application that allows data discovery from across multiple distributed heterogeneous data...

Published 07-24-2009 5:45 PM by savas

Filed under: Microsoft, Research, Semantics, Environment

Ah!!! The joy of services "owning" your data – Facebook’s turn

I saw this in my friend Laura's Facebook status update… FYI: Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on SETTINGS up at the top where you see the log out link. Select PRIVACY. Then...

Published 07-24-2009 4:47 PM by savas

Wow... amazing photos submitted for Bing

I submitted few of my photos for the internal-to- Microsoft version of this photograph competition , few months ago. No surprise, mine didn't have a chance when they can get such gorgeous photographs ! Read More...

Published 07-23-2009 2:35 AM by savas

Filed under: Microsoft

Microsoft and GPLv2 - I bet you weren’t expecting this :-)

I didn’t know about it until last Friday when Alex Wade told me. Today, Microsoft announced the submission of GPLv2 code into the Linux kernel!!! Unbelievable. As Jim Zemlin characteristically said: “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted”. :-)) You...

Published 07-20-2009 3:56 PM by savas

Filed under: Microsoft

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Published 07-18-2009 8:43 PM by savas

The growth of Acer and lightweight OSes

I do hope that Microsoft is paying attention. There was public rhetoric a year ago about the appeal of Netbooks. Well, the just-released numbers say the story clearly ... Netbooks (or cheap laptops) do have an audience and it seems that the audience is...

Published 07-16-2009 7:59 PM by savas

Blogging from the Mac

I am evaluating different blog editors for the Mac. I am posting this from ScribeFire so be warned about what you might see here. Since I am on the road, I can't test it against my test installation of pblog. Oh... I miss Windows Live Writer . What...

Published 07-11-2009 2:20 PM by savas

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How to solve the energy crisis...

It’s sooo good to be on the road again :-)

The importance of friends in my life

Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research

102F, 40C – Officially the hottest day in recorded history

The author of the windows file copy dialog visits some friends...

Now, that’s a wedding entrance...

Keeping track of my running with RunKeeper

SciScope available (including source code)

Ah!!! The joy of services "owning" your data – Facebook’s turn

Wow... amazing photos submitted for Bing

Microsoft and GPLv2 - I bet you weren’t expecting this :-)

test

The growth of Acer and lightweight OSes

Blogging from the Mac