science – 

Meta analysis difficulty increasing

Again in the past days I’ve been banging my head thanks to the fact that doing meta-analysis with microarray data is more difficult than what it seems.
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linux – 

people.complain()

To me nowadays reading KDE Dot News is a bother. Not because of the news, which are always high quality, but the comments leave a lot to be desired.
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general – 

Browser-less entries

From today on I’ll try to write posts without a browser, since I’m not that fond of such an approach. As a matter of fact, I’m using kblogger now, a blogging application for KDE 4 (I didn’t mention that I switched to that full time, more on that when I get time).
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anime – 

Okami to Koshinryo, episode 1

Interested by some promotional art and by a resemblance of the main female character to my brother’s own Yumiko, I took a look at the first episode of Ookami to Koshinryo, better known as Spice and Wolf. I’m being told it is inspired by a series of novels and that there is also a manga version.
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anime · final fantasy xi – 

FFXI-URUSHI-Chaos: 01-02-03

For a change, my brother has found a place (DLsite.com) that sells dojinshi even to non-Japanese people, and also found three non-hentai Final Fantasy XI dojins, which I’m going to cover in this post. For reference, they are available with these prices:
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science – 

Ph.D.!

The title says it all. After all these years, I was finally able to get my Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine this morning, with my thesis “Identification of disregulated metabolic pathways by transcriptomic analysis in renal carcinoma samples” (yes, that’s a long title). The defense was a success and I admit I was surprised when the commitee actually expressed a significant interest in my work.
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linux – 

Be free.

be free.
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