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Monday, July 12th, 2010Few people have contributed more to the development of the World Wide Web than my good friend Dan Connolly. After many years at the W3C, Dan is moving on the University of Kansas Medical Center. To thank Dan for his unique contributions to the Web, Tim Berners-Lee has organized a worldwide celebration for this Wed, […]
Sanjiva on 10 Years of SOAP
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I just noticed that in April, Sanjiva Weerawarana posted his own thoughts on 10 years of SOAP, with a somewhat more positive perspective than mine. I also see that his posting predates mine, so it seems we each noted the anniversary independently. For those who don’t know, Sanjiva has been one of the most important […]
Gig alert: 2010 World Bass Tour Starts tonight
Saturday, June 12th, 2010…and, for that matter, it ends tonight too. In fact, I’ll just be sitting in on bass for just a few songs with my good friend John Landau, who is making one of his regular appearances at the Caffe Concerto restaurant in Shepherd’s Bush, in London. If you’re one of the three people in London […]
Audio Web applications
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010By way of Slashdot, it looks like the folks who are building the experimental audio support in Firefox are making really fine progress. You get to manipulate the raw audio data using Javascript, more or less in real time. They’ve even had some success with doing the FFT’s in Javascript (I didn’t expect that would […]
Ten Years of SOAP
Monday, May 17th, 2010Ten years ago today, at the 9th International Web Conference in Amsterdam, we held a panel discussion to introduce the SOAP networking protocol to the Web community.  Just a week before, the SOAP 1.1 specification had been posted as a W3C Note.  Many legitimate criticisms have been aimed at SOAP in the years since, but […]
Improvements to the posting on saving Nikon D300 and D300s settings
Saturday, May 1st, 2010The January post titled Nikon D300 hint: saving your settings has been the most popular of the year. I’ve just updated it with some clarifications to the information about getting back to the camera’s factory default settings. Follow the link above to see the updated post.
Retiring from IBM
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Today, April 7th 2010, I retired from my position as a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.
Music with Robert Cedrone in Lexington – April 10
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010As I mentioned in the posting below, Robert Cedrone and I will be appearing again this Saturday at the Starbucks (map) that’s on the north side of Lexington, MA (not the one in the center of town!) It’s only an hour, but if you feel like stopping by for some coffee and a little music, […]
Three Gigs This Week
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010This weekend, Friday and Saturday April 2nd and 3rd, I will be playing bass with Rock City Band at two clubs north of Boston.
A nice little tutorial on modern trends in processor architecture
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Greg Pfister at Perils of Parallel has a nice little tutorial up on the tradeoffs among superscalar, VLIW, and “Simple Multicore”.  I guess you’ve got to care a bit about hardware for this to be worthwhile, but I’d encourage anyone with an interest in modern computer systems to take a look. It’s reasonably accessible even […]
Neil McAllister responds to my response
Thursday, February 25th, 2010A few weeks ago I posted A Response to Neil McAllister on the Mobile Web. Neil noticed my posting and he has now responded with a comment of his own; I have in turn posted a brief reply. A response to Neil McAllister on the Mobile Web
Gig alert: Rock City Band — this Saturday in Haverhill
Thursday, February 18th, 2010This Saturday, Feb. 20th, I’ll be filling in on bass for my friends in Rock City Band. We’ll be at The Lasting Room in Haverhill, MA from 9PM to 1AM. The Lasting Room has a nice, traditional wooden bar, and an alcove around the side with a small dance floor. Rock City plays really good […]
One year on the air
Friday, February 5th, 2010It’s been just about a year since this blog went “on the air“.  In that time, almost 2000 people have “visited”, from over 75 countries. I don’t go out of my way to promote this blog, and these numbers are tiny in comparison to the most widely read blogs. Still, it’s very, very rewarding. Thank […]
Nikon D300 hint: saving your settings
Sunday, January 31st, 2010One of the first things that bothered me when I got my Nikon D300 a couple of years ago was: it’s got all sorts of interesting settings to try, but how can you get back to your usual settings after you’re done experimenting, or after adjusting the camera for some unusual situation? After trying various […]
The Feynman Messenger Lectures on Physics are available online
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Several of the legendary 1963 Feynman Lectures on Physics are now available for viewing online at at Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva (direct link to videos). (UDPATE: oops, my mistake! It’s not the 1963 Caltech lectures, it’s the Messenger Lectures from Cornell — see first comment below). Feynman was one of the great physicists of the […]
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