anime –
Yesterday I got a few novels that I’ve been waiting for a while: Slayers _(the last two volumes published by Tokyopop, as ) and _Shakugan no Shana 2. I bought the latter as a “final warning” because I’m not very sure I’ll ever continue: the first Shana was written poorly and with a plot that didn’t make much sense (but again, I don’t think the animated version was shining in that respect).
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science –
I’m often wondering why people only resort to R when working with microarrays. I can understand that Bioconductor offers a plethora of different packages and that R’s statistical functions come in handy for many applications, but still, I think people underestimate the impact of performance.
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general · linux –
Since my work schedule is bordering on the hectic, I was thinking on buying something to get me more organized. Rather than a PDA, I’ve been rather interested in the Asus Eee PC: small form factor, SSDs and Linux preinstalled are definitely pluses. It’s too bad that at least in Italy Asus sells only the 512M RAM version (when there are more powerful options available elsewhere).
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general –
I have upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5. As a result, there are some functions, such as the image gallery, that have been disabled due to the annoying habit of the Wordpress developers of making core changes in very little time.
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final fantasy xi · general –
I haven’t posted anything in a month or so. Quite a long time, considering I used to write at least once per week. The reasons are mainly two: first of all, my work schedule has taken a turn for the worse, which means I have to do my job a lot harder than before; secondly, there wasn’t much interesting stuff to report.
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science –
Fourteen days since my last post. Quite a while, indeed. Mostly I’ve been stumbled with work and some health related issues. Anyway, I thought I’d follow up on the meta analysis matter I discussed in my last post.
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