Blind.Scientist » Bioinformatics – opinion

I tried to become a Mendeley University Advisor, whatever it is. It’s the old saying “I’m in the System to destroy it from within”. Understandably, I didn’t get the gig. But what surprised me is the personal touch in the their message:

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Mendeley University Advisor!

We have now received hundreds of applications from around the globe representing a wide range of academic disciplines. The sheer amount of applicants has been overwhelming and we’re currently filled to capacity. Over the next few months, we will further expand the Advisor program, at which point we would love to have you join us! You don’t need to do anything to follow up, we’ve added you to the waitlist and will be in touch as space becomes available. Thanks again for your interest and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

So, I guess Mendeley, apart from huge PR campaign, acts like they’re a huge company when they need to send automatic emails to the thousands of applicants to this desirable position. But, yet they forget to add the sucker’s name to the email.

I think I will have a Pepsi.

More Pepsi for everyone …

Paulo Nuin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:07:40 +0000

Staying on the thirsty-topic of my earlier post, I think Pepsi contributed more to Science and related fields than most of us could. I had lost all hope that corporations could be good, but I was wrong. I don’t usually drink cola, but when I do I prefer (and always will) Pepsi.

After I finish my seventh cold Pepsi can of the day (it’s hot here!) I might even want to check Science Blogs again.

Cheers, with Pepsi.

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Paulo Nuin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:59:29 +0000

I have been quite late to new events, but suddenly I have an urge to drink a cold Pepsi!

World Cup 2010, final impression

Paulo Nuin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:08:47 +0000

Viva España!!

Safari 5: the worst

Paulo Nuin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:58:39 +0000

Safari 5 is the worst web browser I have ever used, IE6 included. Halting, stalling, not loading and not finding pages. A complete failure, running on OS X with all updates from the same company that programs the browser.

2010 World Cup: first impressions

Paulo Nuin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:51:54 +0000

Some irrelevant impressions about the World Cup in South Africa:

- vuvuzela will probably be the only thing that you will remember about this cup. And that’s sad.

- mediocre players so far (with few exceptions), mediocre ball

- According to CBC (Canada) Australia is (was) one the coming powers in football. I guess they need to hire some real analysts, or let me comment hockey

- Apart from Messi and Germany, nothing good so far. And the English goalkeeper too, classic. It’s becoming a norm to make fun of the poor Englishmen every four years.

- Also according to Canadian TV, Italy is not known for slow starts. They don’t have tapes from the matches since 1982. Again, better analysts.

The problem with paid software, part 64563, support

Paulo Nuin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:59:43 +0000

About a year ago I purchased Zennaware‘s Cornerstone, a SVN client for Macs. It’s a nice application, works really well, it does what it is supposed to do, But as any software is has bugs and problems, and after paying around 50 bucks for a license, one expects that at least one email asking how perform one thing with the software would be answered. It has been more than three weeks that I sent an email to their support team in order to know how to delete some failed repositories from a list, still nothing.

Sometimes, I don’t know why I pay for software.

I live in “the” Canada

Paulo Nuin — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:34:04 +0000

So, says Twitter: