Archive for December, 2005
My buddy Glenn is actively travelling in India right now so I thought I’d post this Wired article about Pharmaceutical’s using India as a clinical test bed. We both work in Bio-IT and although we’re not directly involved in drug discovery, we do develop tools to help track and analyze researcher’s data.
Testing [...]
People ask me all the time what I do.
I essentially tell them I’m a technical lead at a Bio IT software company that develops solutions for lab management. If the conversation goes any further, I’ll mention that we’re specifically targeting proteomics facilities and their significant data management and process tracking needs.
I was just doing [...]
So yesterday I went into the local La-Z-Boy furniture gallery to look at buying a nice chair.
My requirements weren’t that great, with the only one being the ability to put the chair close to the wall and have it recline fully.
After about 45 minutes of lounging, I selected a nice chair that their computer system [...]
From Slashdot…
“The developers at del.icio.us have announced that they were purchased by Yahoo!. From the post: ‘We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We’re excited to be working [...]
from JoeDuck’s World
I’m getting tired of people explaining how Google will take over the internet and then the world of commerce. This is the nonsense we heard back in 1999….except they were saying AMAZON was going to take over the world.
What’s Amazon? Oh… right…. it’s a book selling site.
I would argue it’s not just a [...]
From the Dilbert Blog
Yet another “third highest ranking al-Qaida leader” has been killed, this time by a rocket attack from an unmanned drone. There are a lot of jobs that I wouldn’t want, and “third highest ranking al-Qaida leader” is right at the top. But I can tell you for sure that if I ever [...]
Last night I finally broke down and decided to purchase a new aptly titled big ass TV.
I don’t particularily need a new tv, my existing 27″ crt is still kicking just fine, but that’s besides the point.
After some debate I finally decided on a 42″ plasma from Costco. I also threw one [...]
Last week marked the completion of the annual VIATec foodbank challenge.
What’s The Foodbank Challenge?
Join the tech community to show the kind of difference we can make!
Once again we are pitting technology company against technology company in an effort to raise as much food and donations as possible for the Mustard Seed Food Bank in time [...]
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
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Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how ...
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