Belated congratulations are in order for [Marcelo](http://esteserhumano.blogspot.com/), who recently got his PhD in biology.
His thesis: “studies on the expression and activity of czf1p, a regulator of morphogenesis in *candida albicans*”
(Original title: the mysterious world of shapeshifting yeast infections)
Congrats, Dr. Vinces.
This weekend I checked out the uplifting and wonderful *March of the Penguins* at the Harvard Square Loews.
The movie is a documentary, and tells the story of the mating ritual of Antartica’s emperor penguins. Morgan Freeman narrates the English version of this French film.
Summary from [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428803/):
> Each winter, alone […]
As you may already know, Google recent made its [Map API][1] publically available. This means that anyone with a website can get an API key that allows you to play with and develop applications using [Google Maps][1]. I have played around with it a bit, and made the following:
* [full-screen map of New York […]
Google Blogoscoped points out that Google now offers the ability to [personalize](http://www.google.com/ig#) your google home page with content via RSS feeds.
Examples of content include:
* syndicated news items
* weather
* gmail inbox
* quotes
In order to use this feature, users must have an account with google (i.e., a gmail address). This looks a lot like Yahoo’s […]
Jakob Nielson’s Nielsen Norman Group is putting on User Experience Conference 2005, and it’s taking place in Boston:
> Industry leaders offer thirty-three full-day tutorials on everything from must-know
> usability basics to advanced methods in testing and design. Highlights include:
>
> * A new session on content management for intranets and websites
> * The leaders […]
via Metafilter
Research finds that 87% of internet users are unfamiliar with "podcasting" and 91% have never heard of "RSS". The study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that only 3% of users still don’t know what spam is. Here’s a PDF of the findings.
Jack Rosenthal has written an interesting article on mnemonics which raises some good points:
> Why is it necessary in this information age
> to remember most things, except maybe
> your user name and password(s)?
I’ve long thought that with increasing technology capabilities it becomes less important that you know something, but instead that you know where […]
David Allen on casual Fridays:
> Excuse me, but if it’s OK for someone to
> show up dressed casually for 20% of their
> work time, why on earth is it not OK to show
> up the rest of the time that way? Or… if it’s
> not OK to show up casually 80% of the time,
> […]
Yesterday my brother and I, along with 3 of his friends, went deep-sea fishing for the first time.
We left Plum Island near Newburyport on the Captain George boat on a half-day fishing trip offered by Captain’s Fishing. It’s about a 35 minute drive from Boston. The boat left at about 1:15PM, and returned around […]
This is a test post to see if the PHP-based WP
Cron will successfully grab an email from my POP3 account, parse it, and
then post it to this site via XMLRPC.
If you can read this, then apparently it works!
