A better mousetrap? There’s an app for that
The first computer game I ever loved was Mousetrap. On rainy days, my sister and I would spend hours playing this game on our Atari computer, and not much less time loading it from a cassette, holding...
View ArticleIs this creepy, or is it just me?
The concept of complete strangers “following” me on Twitter took a bit of getting used to. But now that I’m a few months in, it takes something a wee bit out of the ordinary to activate that...
View ArticleI am not cut out for a tech support career
This morning, before work: Dad: “Do you have [cousin's] email address? I just got an email about cheap train fares that I want to forward to her” Me: “It’s in my Gmail. I don’t know it off by heart,...
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Well, I’m well and truly converted: I’ve had a MacBook at home for over a year now, and just got a MacBook Pro for work. Woo hoo! I still do most of my day-to-day work on a PC – the Mac is more for...
View ArticleThere should be an APP for that!
(where APP = Automatic PDF Pusher) I have five browser tabs open to article abstracts, from four different journals. All five articles are currently published as provisional PDFs. All look interesting...
View ArticleThe medium is the message
I saw the most amazing TED talk the other day, about Nikola Tesla. Now, we all know that Tesla was a fascinating, awesome dude (especially as played by David Bowie IMHO), but in the case of this video...
View ArticleBook reviews: down memoir lane
I don’t usually read many non-fiction books, but I happened to read three in a row over the last few months. Funny how that happens… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The first was Glass Castle: a Memoir, by...
View ArticleehCloud: why Canada (and every other country) needs its own cloud computing...
I recently helped one of our scientists put together an application for an industry-partnered bioinformatics grant. I understand the company in question to be more or less universally recognised as the...
View ArticleRando
Those of you who’ve read some of my recent posts, or who follow me on Twitter, might have noticed that many of the photos I post are now circular. No-one? Really? Anyway… this is because for the last...
View ArticleStorage space
I found myself waiting alone outside a meeting room at work the other day, while the people in there wrapped up and packed away and the person I was meeting with was fetching a laptop. Looking around...
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