Spring, Crocuses in My Garden, Back to Blogging

Finally, it is warm in our village. Spring is back and I’m back to blogging (with a slight re-design of my WordPress template through modifications of CSS and introduction of new fonts).

I think I need to share here more about things that I care about and less about private life and events which are meaningless to the majority of my potential readers.

Let’s see how it goes.

And by the way, I’ve also started a small “photoblog” on Photobucket – looks like a better format for sharing pictires from a daily life.

Sweet Weekend

The picture below represents a gift from my frinds. And I think it reflects a mood of our weekend: natural, sweet and happy. We’ve been walking in a winter forest, meeting with our good friends and playing with their kids. Despite the cold weather and new challenges with utilities in our village the weekend was full of joy.

P.S. I’ve bought a new LTE/3G modem from MTS, plan to try it out tomorrow.

Happy Birthday World Community Grid!

Today World Community Grid celebrated its 8th anniversary.  It brings people together from across the globe to create the largest non-profit computing grid benefiting humanity.  The grid does this by pooling surplus computer processing power.  Any computer owner can support one or may scientific projects by donating an unused computer cycles.  Small free software (“agent”) captures your computer’s spare power when it is on, but idle.  Your computer will request data on a specific project from World Community Grid’s server. It will then perform computations on this data, send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of work. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research!

World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.  IBM sponsors it.

I participate in the program since April 10, 2006.  So far my computers donated 34 days of full processing power to the grid (it’s 20 minutes per day, average).  The following scientific project benefited from me actually doing nothing having a lunch break or talking on a phone conf-call (well, and paying for an electric power, but it’s another story) :

  • Drug Search for Leishmaniasis
  • Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy – Phase 2
  • Help Fight Childhood Cancer
  • Help Conquer Cancer
  • Human Proteome Folding – Phase 2
  • FightAIDS@Home 13,580
  • Computing for Clean Water
  • Nutritious Rice for the World
  • Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
  • Genome Comparison
  • Human Proteome Folding
And global statistics is really impressive:

 

I would like to witsh a World Community Grid nothing but success in future and encourage you Join it.

 

inspired by music of the medieval East and West now

 

Some of you know, that I collect music CDs.

So I’ve bought a new one in Istanbul while I was on a business-trip there.

 

Orient – Occident by Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall is really worth trying.   This CD to present the music of the medieval East and West showing how different cultures would influence each other.  Jordi Savall (influential composer and viol player) and his Hesperion XXI are joined in this recording by seven musicians from Greece and Middle Eastern countries playing instruments that include the transverse flute, or tulak, the rubab, tablas, zir baghali and oud.  The CD is very well recorded.

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Wow! You must be doing something right – got 1000 views of my slide-desk online.

My presentation on Slideshare has reached 1000 views.  2 years after I uploaded it.  I  received the following note from Slideshare recently: “Congrats! Your documents on SlideShare have had 1000 views.”  In fact, it’s just an elegant way for them to up-sell a premium subscription.  But, still, it is so nice to get such a reminder.

It can be considered funny, but so far I really have just one slide-desk there and I never promoted it.  It was shared on my LinkedIn profile, but I don’t consider it a promotion.

By the way, for public presentations and sharing I also to use a SlideRocket  –  lightweight and nice online tool.  Prezi  is next in my list of challenges.  Other good option would be to use a pure HTML5, just like impress.js.

Join us at cloud event in Moscow HQ!

I haven't been blogging for a while.  Partly because I was ill, Partly because I focused on organization of Cloud event for IBM business partners in Moscow.
If you are interested, you can join.  Day 1 is focused on business aspects, day 2  -  for techies mainly.  We will also use a Twitter channel #IBMRUCLOUD for discussions and a group on Facebook to continue interaction later.

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