Blog Detail
savas:blog
http://savas.parastatidis.name
Savas' blog on Web Services, Internet-scale computing, Grid, personal stuff, etc.
- Added on: Sep 30th, 2004
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
WorldCat Mashathon wrap up notes
Alice posted her wrap up notes on the WorldCat Mashathon event about which I blogged a couple of weeks ago. There is a nice video of Alex talking about the prototype we did on the spot. Adding WorldCat to Windows 7 Alex and Savas used the Wo...
Glastonbury in November (@glastofest)
Wow. I can’t believe Glastonbury looks like this. It’s sooo beautiful :-) Different type of beauty from when it’s packed with ~200k people at the end of June :-) Compare the beautiful green landscape with the colorful sea of tends, stages, art...
A “smart” cyberinfrastructure for research
Many months ago, Tony Hey, Evely Viegas, and I were invited to write a “viewpoint” article for the Communications of the ACM. It should be of no surprise that we chose to write about “Semantic Computing” as it relates to research. While the ...
A positive spin to globalization?
I am a true believer in finding something positive in all aspects of human activities. It’s no secret that I am not a huge fun of capitalism and its impact to the world’s less fortunate. I do not believe in Bill Gates’ “Creative Capitalism...
Slides from Jim and Ian’s QCon tutorial
Jim and Ian (my co-authors for the “REST In Practice”*) gave a tutorial at QCon in San Francisco few days ago, which was very well received. For most part, the slides follow a lot of our rhetoric in the book and I think they make a great resource...
Working hard... playing hard... Upcoming live concerts :-)
I am keeping myself quite busy these days and I love it. I started Yoga classes twice a week at 6.30am and a fitness class at 7.30am, again twice a week. I really need to get ready for the ski season, which may be starting early if the snow on our mo...
