Goals I only realised last night that just telling myself to do my essay isn’t working. I need to make smaller, achievable goals to actually be productive and be able to measure my success. Previous goal: “Write Proteorhodopsin essay.” Todays goal: “Read at least 3 papers and write at least 2 pages of essay.” That […]
The Art of Favicons
From the title one might think that I have something insightful to say about the art of making a favicon (the little shortcut icon that shows up in your browser’s address bar, on tabs and in bookmark lists). Really, I just want to say two things. First thing about favicons They’re damn cool: they make […]
18 Image editors and creators for Mac OS X
I found myself wanting to make a quick sketch to get an idea out of my mind, while I got on with something else. I could have gone and got my Moleskine, but it’s nearly full and I didn’t want to start a new project in there. I could have opened up GIMP, but it’s […]
Stupid scientist alert!
I woke up at 7am this (Saturday) morning to an amazing realisation: I’ve wasted weeks of work because one of my tests was completely futile. I’ll tell you the steps of my work; see if you can pick where I went wrong. Aim: Create a copy of an E. coli gene on a plasmid. Amplify […]
Tumblr, tweets and twizzles (for shizzle)
Updated Tumblr I figured since I have a link to my tumblelog in the footer, I should actually update it! It’s mainly a collection of my online profiles, guest posts, that sort of thing. If you want a list of sites that I think are cool I have a links page and del.icio.us (most recent […]
Microsoft: helping kids or themselves?
If you watch a short video of kids introducing Office 2007. Microsoft will donate $1 to the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. Sounds cool right? It would be super if you didn’t have to install more software to watch the video!!! By clicking “click to install” you accept the Silverlight License Agreement Yeah… right.