November, 2006

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Nov 06

Tune of the Week: The Ride Theory

This week’s tune of the week features The Ride Theory, a band from Ontario, Canada. They came to my attention, as usual, in one of Insomnia Radio episodes. It was also the IR Spotlight show last week that reminded me of them once again, and I decided I would feature a song from them.

The band has two albums so far. Their first album is Self-Titled Debut album (available in iTunes) from 2002. They released their second album In this City in 2005 (available in iTunes, and via Paypal here). On their web site, the band has 3 songs from each album available for download.

The Ride Theory is a very podcast friendly band. They have a list of all the podcasts they have been played on and they have Podsafe Music Network page which lists songs that are available for podcasters.

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Nov 06

Ronaldinho Fantastico

If you are not a soccer fan, you may become one after you watch that fantastic bicycle kick goal by Ronaldinho.

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Nov 06

A Model Driven Tool for Automated System Level Testing Of Middleware

Turker Keskinpala, Abhishek Dubey, Steve Nordstrom, Ted Bapty, Sandeep Neema

Proceedings of Fourth System Testing and Validation Workshop (STV 06), 2006.

This paper presents a contribution to the challenges of manually creating test configurations
and deployments for high performance distributed middleware frameworks. We present our
testing tool based on the Model Integrated Computing (MIC) paradigm and describe and
discuss its generative abilities that can be used to generate many test configurations and
deployment scenarios from high-level system specifications through model replication.

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Nov 06

GHOST: Guided Healing and Optimization Search Technique for Healing Large-Scale Embedded Systems

Steve Nordstrom, Abhishek Dubey, Turker Keskinpala, Sandeep Neema, Ted Bapty

Third IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic & Autonomous Systems (EASE’06), ease, pp. 54-60, 2006.

Reflex and Healing architectures have been shown to provide adequate user-defined initial failure mitigation behaviors in the presence of system faults. What is lacking, however, is a user-guided means of healing the system after the initial reflexes have been enacted. This process should be autonomic in the sense that new system configurations can be achieved by defining a priori only a small set of criteria to which the healed system should conform. What follows is an explanation ofthis technique for guided healing which allows system designers to direct the healing process from a higher level in such a way that the resulting system configurations satisfy their particular needs. A brief example outlining the application of this approach is given.

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Nov 06

Tune of the Week: Smoosh

Smoosh is an interesting American indie pop duo. They are interesting because Asya, the singer/keyboardist is 14 years old and her sister, the drummer Chloe is just 12.

Smoosh released their first album, She Like Electric, on September 2004. Their second album titled Free to Stay was released in June 2006. I learned from their Wikipedia entry that neither of them can read music and that Asya quit piano training because she found it boring. Girls, who write their own music are signed to Barsuk Records. There is lots of coverage about this interesting duo, and this page has a lot links and information on the young duo. In addition to their official page, there is a fan site which has some news and streams of Smoosh songs. There is also a Myspace page as can be expected.

The song I chose from them is Rad, which is from their She Like Electric album. This is a very happy and cheerful song and definitely leaves a smile on your face after you listen to it.

In addition, here is a live performance of Smoosh playing Rad:

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Nov 06

Playing Around with the Site

You may have noticed some unexpected entries in the RSS feed if you are subscribed to my blog’s feed. As you might have already noticed, I have been making changes in the structure of the blog. I have been trying to turn the blog into more of a personal web site managed by Wordpress. I am feeling like the structure and design is complete and I am slowly filling in the content.

I started filling in the Publications page. I structured it so that posts that I categorize as “Publications” are shown on that page rather than the main blog page. I managed to do that but forgot about the RSS feed. For this reason, yesterday some publication posts appeared in the RSS feed. Tonight, I searched for a way to exclude a category from the RSS and came across a solution in the Wordpress support pages. If you ever need to exclude a category from the RSS feed of your Wordpress blog, you can add the following code into your wp-rss2.php file:

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