general –
I’ve recently upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.3. While I’m interested in the new changes this release brings (like tagging support) I question the way the transition to the new version was handled.
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science –
Today I was looking for an easy way to do some calculations of raw expression data on Affymetrix arrays, but I didn’t want to use R: I have already mentioned how I don’t like its design and implementation. While looking for some documentation, I stumbled upon this nifty little program called RMAExpress.
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linux –
After some thought, I’ve joined the fray and installed the beta version of Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on one of my computers. It hasn’t too recent hardware (AMD Thunderbird 2100+, 512 Mb RAM and a motherboard with a Nforce 2 chipset), and it is my test system for distributions.
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general –
I was thinking about writing something on the line of what I announced in the past entry, but what has happened recently surrounding the artist who does the work for The S.T.E.A.L. Saga, that is Too, made me change my mind.
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general –
Recently I haven’t had the time to write any decent entries. That is due to the fact that my Ph.D. thesis needs to be completed by Oct 18th, and while I’m (hopefully) on track I still have to finish correcting the Introduction and completing the Discussion section (lots of scientific literature to study…). As I’m working on that even on weekends, it means I really have little free time.
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final fantasy xi –
As most people know already, Square Enix has put a new trailer of Wings of the Goddess on their web page, which has been updated as well. Unlike Treasures of Aht Urghan, it looks that story-driven content will be more present. Also, the trailer shows much more of the story than ToAU’s (and apparently, new weapon skills!): I hope it is an indication that Square Enix has learnt from the problems of the previous expansions.
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science –
The title of this post tries to give some insight on a problem that I’ve stumbled upon a lot of problems when doing microarray data analysis: the plethora of different file formats. In “conventional” (as I call it) bioinformatics this is less problematic, as FASTA or PDB are quite standardized by now.
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