EwanSilver.com » Uncategorized http://ewansilver.com/blog Ewan Silver Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 August 21, 2007 http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/08/21/august-21-2007/ http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/08/21/august-21-2007/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:42:54 +0000 Ewan http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/08/21/august-21-2007/ Just been too busy for too long but this amused me:

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It makes no difference if I am signed into Google (gmail id) or not. I always get redirected and get the results in Romanian. That is a REAL nightmare. I shouldn’t have to muck around with setting preferences or any of that other stuff – it should just work. Google: dont get clever, just give me what I want.

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]]> http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/02/19/google-conference-on-scalability/feed/ 0 The business case for SOA…. give me a break! http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/01/07/the-business-case-for-soa-give-me-a-break/ http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/01/07/the-business-case-for-soa-give-me-a-break/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:28:32 +0000 Ewan http://ewansilver.com/blog/2007/01/07/the-business-case-for-soa-give-me-a-break/ Having SOA problems? Then you are going to love this. The world is truly, truly, truly mad!

Via jevdemon

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All in all a GREAT idea! Congrats to Joe and Zaheda for setting it up and I, for one, certainly want to go to the next one!. I am even going to dig out some old SEDA code I have (its called Raindrop) from a couple of years ago and finally make an effort to push it out into the real world. What more incentive do I need?

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