This blog has been silent for the last several weeks. We were busy moving from the bay area to WA, and getting settled into a new place of work and home. I still work from Yahoo!'s web services team, but am now based in their Bellevue office. Quite a change from CA! So far, the changes have been positive and exciting both at work and outside work. What about the rain? I am not going to talk about it until we live here for at least one full year. Frankly, we have not experienced that much rain so far. Last two days have been quite warm, actually.

Yesterday, Aug 31, 2007, was my last day at BEA. After 7 years 6 months and 11 days, I said good bye to a very strong team of people trying to make successful products. Over the years I had a chance to build a number of areas for WebLogic Portal including the JSR-168 container, built the federation architecture around WSRP, and more recently on some Web 2.0 initiates. It was tough to say good byes to all the people that I like and respect for their contributions and strengths.

Neither. I got fed up with the memory usage of KDE. I bet GNOME is equally heavy. So, I decided to switch to XFCE4. This is much lighter. It lacks some bells and whistles, but is definitely helping with productivity.

I have been running a web site at this domain since 1999, and started blogging in 2004. Overall, I am pleased with my blogging experience, and feel that I should have started this sooner. Blogs make it easier to write often, and take care of a lot of details of publishing, such as styles/formatting, uploading files, providing links, and finally, making it easy for others to reach my blog entries. While setting up a blog is fairly easy, making it usable takes some effort. Here is my list of blog usability issues.

My thoughts after reading a lot of blogs and articles on SOA that appeared this year.

In first-world countries, you would expect everything connected, information flowing back and forth across continents, and all kinds of transactions happening round the clock. The world is not supposed to be sleeping in a connected flat world.