When I first heard about the plans that the British Library had about an exhibitions called Science is Beautiful I got very excited. I did even make an entry in my diary about the date… Read More »Science is beautiful exhibition
Last week, in preparation for the Six Nations match of England v Wales, the BBC put out a video of Elijah Wood reading To Others Than You by Dylan Thomas. I believe it is only available from… Read More »Friend by enemy…
Optimist: Someone who figures out that taking a step backward after a steer forward is not a disaster… it’s more like a cha-cha…
The work computer of one of my colleagues has recently closed the circle and he has now a shiny new apple computer. He is very well-versed in a bunch of computer related tasks, nonetheless he… Read More »Navigating the terminal
I quite like what google have done with their Doodle for the Sochi Winter Olympics….
I am sure you, like me, have had the need to reduce the file size of a PDF. Take for example the occasional need of sending a PDF by email just to find out that… Read More »An alternative way to reduce the size of PDF in a mac
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
I recently updated my version of Octave using Homebrew and something went a bit eerie… Nothing major except that instead of plotting to the Aquaterm terminal, Octave and Gnuplot were only happy with X11. Not… Read More »Aquaterm plotting issue with Octave and Gnuplot (Mac)
