anime – 

Nanoha licensed for the USA

According to the Anime News Network, Geneon Entertainment has bought the license for distributing Maho Shojo Lyrical Nanoha and Nanoha A’s in the United States.
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general – 

Transformers

Looks like NRK beat me to it, but I’ve seen this film myself yesterday night.
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science – 

Publish or perish

The idea to blog about this common phenomenon came after I read a post over at Bioinformatics Zen on the matter of open science. There, Mike describes the situation quite clearly: mostly, you need a middle ground between complete secrecy and absolute openness.
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general – 

A trip to the sea

Two weeks ago I went to a sea resort in Liguria, called Loano. While plagued by a cold, the hiliday was much needed to relax. Finally I’ve managed to scan the photos (I only had an one-use camera) and so I’ve put them online. Click on the thumbnail to get to the specific album.
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science – 

Data handling

As the people who read my science related posts already know, I’m in the middle of doing meta-analysis. That brought up a problem, so to speak, and it’s related to annotations.
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final fantasy xi – 

ToAU Mission 35 - take 2

On Wednesday we tried Mission 35 again and this time was a success. Daman was not present, but we’ll do another run for him on Sunday.
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final fantasy xi – 

Einherjar

Due to maintenance, we couldn’t do Dynamis on Tuesday. Instead, we settled for the new large-scale battlefield that has been added in the new update: Einherjar.
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