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Pad check

Testing from the iPad app. just testing

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Back to regular programming

After a long period of silence micro-workflow.com is coming back to regular programming! There have been many changes since the last update: OS, software, platform, and so on. The world is a different, more exciting place now… Stay tuned; as … Continue reading

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Asleep at the Wheel

This quick rant is about Amazon.com. Before proceeding further let me assure you that I’m a big fan, having been an Amazon.com customer for over a decade. I’ve also successfully tested their A-to-Z coverage, with my shopping history including phones, … Continue reading

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Services Without Borders

It’s been a few years since my last vacation overseas. Since then I acquired several e-dependencies on services such as Pandora (see my older post on feature extraction) and Hulu, a service I learned about from my colleague Adam Sheppard … Continue reading

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Understanding slashdot

I’ve been a slashdot reader since the end of 1997, when I discovered it over the dial-up connection I had at the University of Illinois. While back then I visited /. almost daily, nowadays my visits are much less frequent. … Continue reading

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Taiko Drums in the Japanese Garden

Last weekend I caught a Taiko performance in Seattle’s Japanese Garden. I have never seen Taiko live; the mix of percussion and choreography was quite impressive. Here’s one of the snapshots I caught. If you’d like to see the dynamics … Continue reading

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With Miguel de Icaza on Open Source, Mono, and Moonlight

A few weeks ago I attended Lang.NET Symposium. Charles Torre asked me to participate in a conversation with Miguel de Icaza, who was among the attendees. (While nowadays most people associate Miguel with Mono, our paths crossed–virtually–many years ago, when … Continue reading

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Your Next Generation DVD Player Will Be …

Disc-less… and the competition is coming over your high-speed Internet connection. Netflix lives up to its name; Jaman, Apple TV and VUDU are also doing it. With Jaman, Apple and VUDU entering the world of HD, the incentive of buying … Continue reading

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Read This Book: The Change Function

Just a few days into the new year is a great time to look back at 2007 and reflect about what book influenced me the most. Pip Coburn’s The Change Function–recommended by my friend and colleague Erik Meijer–stands out as … Continue reading

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Moving to WordPress

I decided to give WordPress a try and migrated my entire site from Drupal. Among other visible (and not so visible) changes now I can use Live Writer for WYSIWYG blog-editing. I’m sure I broke a few things in the … Continue reading

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