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  • Mac vs PC vs Linux

    Jim just pointed me to this funny video. Very funny :-) ( seen in Michael Calore's blog ) Read More...

  • Excellent blog entry by Ian Foster

    Happy New Year everyone. The first entry of 2008 relates to an excellent blog post by Ian Foster . The main differences I see between "Grids" and the "Cloud" are the concepts of "virtual organizations" and "sharing of...

  • Jim Gray Systems Lab

    While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton 's blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft -internal version as well :-) that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical Fellow to lead the...

  • We really work hard in Microsoft

    As Dan said , Microsoft Research moved to a new building at the beginning of November. It's really nice. Today, I was walking by a section of the 4th floor with 'open' offices (no-wall offices... yes, they even have numbers). They are supposed...

  • "This must be one of the stupidest things I've ever done" No2

    Remember that post about me missing a flight even though I was at the airport 7 hours before take off? I had entitled that post “ This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done ”. Now, what title do you use when you repeat the...

  • Loving last.fm

    After my latest soccer (erm... football) league game today, which we lost again :-(, I came to the office to catch up with some work. I installed last.fm for the first time and I am loving it. I felt like "Pink Floyd"-similar music while coding...

  • World Wide Telescope

    My team, and Dan Fay in particular, has been involved in the funding of the World Wide Telescope effort. I've seen demonstrations of it and it's absolutely gorgeous. I was even lucky to see it running on a 4 x 3 large display wall with modifications...

  • Greece gets Bird's Eye view in Virtual Earth

    Dan Fay told me about the availability of Bird's Eye view photos of major cities in Greece . I was able to find the place I spent 4 years of my life while an undergraduate in Greece, in Thessaloniki :-) The new feature that I really love, though, is the...

  • eResearch and Cloud Computing

    The previous post reminded me of the talk I gave at SC07 about "The Web as the Platform for Research" . Bill St.Arnaud recently blogged about it ("Cloud computing is the way forward rather than the Grid") with a quote from yours truly...

  • Obama’s win

    It’s been fascinating to watch the entire world paying attention to the election results of one country; a testament to the global role of the US today. I don’t really believe in political labels (“left”, “right”, “socialist”, “communist”, etc.) but I...

  • "Mest up people"

    Every now and then I check my blog's referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages... they were looking for "mest up people"... I guess they were really looking for "messed up...

  • New toy: an eReader

    In my ever futile attempt to persuade everyone in my team to stop printing, I purchased an eReader. I went for iRex's Iliad ... It has a larger screen than other popular readers; Note taking capability (even though the design and the form factor of...

  • 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...

  • HTC Touch Cruise

    Back in June 2007 I switched from T-Mobile to ATT in order to get the Blackjack I because the salesman told me that WM6 was “just a couple of weeks away”. Early December I went to complain because the update was still not available. Unfortunately, they...

  • Intern opportunities in my team

    Are you a PhD student in the US? Are you interested in working with a passionate team in Microsoft Research for few months? Do you want to experience life in Microsoft ? Are you a professor and have students who might be interested working in any of the...
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