Ha!
Technology
SciFi
I didn’t notice until a lecturer pointed it out this week Gattaca, the name of the movie, is a combination of the four DNA bases GATC. Clever! We’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, and apparently we’re teaching the machines, in fact the machines are us.
Articles
I picked up a couple of copies of the Southern Cross paper at church a while ago, they looked to have articles that I was interested in – blogging, Intelligent Design and Heroes. True to my style they have been sitting on my desk at home while other papers got stacked on top of them. […]
Charts and graphs on Mac
I had some data from a lab that wanted to graph with two different y-axes. It’s not too difficult an idea to picture in your head, you see the data had incredibly different scales (a maximum of 70 vs. 5), but I don’t know if Excel can do it. Since I was using NeoOffice, not […]
Smultron
When I first got my MacBook I searched for ages for a decent Text Editor. Text Edit was usable but perhaps too light-weight for wanting to edit html and such. I couldn’t find a nice, free, piece of software so I just used Text Edit and jEdit when I really felt the need for syntax […]
Painful
This morning was painful. I mucked up my knee at karate last night, so that literally hurts. Mentally, the rest of the morning hurt. I re-did an assay that I’d done the wrong dilutions for. Having done that I was able to make a standard curve and realised that the rest of our results were […]