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This came through to my inbox today via an alert service: " British Library Direct: Rigorous Evaluation of COTS Middleware ... Rigorous Evaluation of COTS Middleware Technology . Author. Gorton, I. Liu, A. Brebner, P. Journal title. COMPUTER -IEEE COMPUTER
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I attended the Warren centre 2007 Innovation lecture given by Dr Chris Nicol. I've known of Chris for 15 years, right from the UNSW days at the VaST lab, I think I still have his lecture notes on VLSI design on my shelf somewhere! Chris delivered an inspiring
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Season II on SBS again, we firstly watched my cousin Johnny Truong (AstroNerd) from Season I , followed by the new series, where Chris Anderson , albeit a 28th year old, made it through the audition... Chris tells me that he found out about the audition
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One of my all time favourite "The Movie Show" from SBS has not been on air for a while, and a quick look up online reveals this: nice to see SBS acknowledges key web 2.0 characteristics: 'Consumer becoming Producer of Content' and 'Merging Brand Experiences
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Love the look and feel of this Silverlight application on the Beijing Olympics site ... time to get in touch with my distant Chinese relatives and figure out how to get some Olympics tickets!
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Lots of people have been talking about iPhone this morning - including Shane . My immediate reaction was that wow - now here is a worthy competition in the mobile phone/PDA market, with excellent user experience design. And then, I remembered why I gave
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Yes, for my indulgence in some of my absolute most fav yummy pacific northwest seafood, I'm paying for it in bucketloads now... got a dose of bad seafood poisoning! Luckily, thanks to my extended Microsoft family - Arvindra and Beat - they looked after
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just flew into Seattle Tacoma international airport. Wow, despite a relatively hassle free travel for the last 24 hours, my head is pretty cloudy right now... staring at the pretty snow outside is all my head is good for right now! let's hope I'll have
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What a week it's been... I've a huge backlog of blog posts I want to do, and I simply have been having too much fun meeting all sorts of people this last week to have a free moment to sit down and blog about some of these wonderful experiences... So I'm
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As a mother with 2 young children who is also not all that into sport, I really don't care much for the various Sports scoreboard gadgets, nor do I have time for many of the games gadgets. There are however two gadgets from the Gallery that I absolutely
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I finally met up with Yuhong in person today. We collaborated through John Grundy years ago, and produced an ASE2001 best paper on " Generation of Distributed System Test-beds from High-level Software Architecture Descriptions ". Half way through our
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I want to be on this IT Screen Goddess Calendar . I wish I could be miss May - Lucy Liu lookalike in the Charlie's Angels poster. Anyway - failing in being a Calendar Goddess, I could always try out David Lempher's idea - going on a roadshow to speak
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Kevin Francis - MVP solution architect won a best industry experience report award at ASWEC . Kevin's presentation was on " Large-scale Integration Design and Management ", way to go Kevin! Check out the other pictures from the conference here (they had
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Patrick just reminded me of this funny poem I wrote a few years ago for a party we went to... It is based on Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky , I translated it into a Chinese version of Jabberwocky based on sound, and then, translated that Chinese version into
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Gianpaolo is on holidys in Sydney at the moment. He was very nice to pop by my office to chat for an hour even in the midst of his busy holidaying schedule! I really enjoyed the stimulating discussion, we chatted about the future of enterprise , Software
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