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If we tell you to Buzz …

Paulo Nuin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:58:19 +0000

… you will Buzz!

I don’t understand the US

Paulo Nuin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:14:43 +0000

It seems to be a great country, a nice society, but sometimes it gets too nutty and idiotic. I don’t think a person who has more than 1 billion dollars in the bank, makes any sacrifice by doing what this idiot did. And while I’m at it, golf is not a sport.

Intelligent design?

Paulo Nuin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:33:09 +0000

If God created everything “as is” 6000 years ago, why He/She didn’t give use enough knowledge to understand His/Her design right away? Every time I look at a gene network, I feel dumb (maybe that’s just me), and if the design was more intelligent (and made sense) everything would be easier.

Please stop …

Paulo Nuin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:49 +0000

… using ‘gate’ for every crisis, problem, scandal. ‘Throttlegate‘ for the Toyota recall? Really, are you sure? Sometimes I wish that the Watergate hotel was called Watercrap or something similar. But that’s only a wish.

Google Wave and Buzz

Paulo Nuin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:05:26 +0000

is a bust. So much hype, for nothing, useless piece of software (or website). Then came Buzz and the amount of crap increase ten-fold. And then the privacy problems came, something they apologized for, but will forget next time they release some new forever-beta product. Sometimes, I wish I was able to remove Google from my life, but then what I would use: Bing, Hotmail?

Presenting BioVB6

Paulo Nuin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:02:24 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

I’m proud to present this initiative to keep old-school programmers in the cusp of Bio* development. After long discussions and controversy, I decided that it would be extremely important to stop neglecting a good portion of developers around the world that are still trying to catch-up with new, but yet completely unreliable, software and technology.

So far, I haven’t contacted anyone regarding this project, but I guess people will be thrilled to learn about it and I expect massive signup to become a developer (first come, first served basis). The main goals and “project culture” (similar to a company culture, but in project, got it?) are:

- develop a number of OCX and DirectX and VB classes and VB modules that can be used by anyone in the bio community. Extreme focus on being backward compatible with VB 3 and 4 (both 8-bit and 16-bit versions)
- We will not care about VB .NET
- Goto is considered harmful elsewhere not here
- improve ADO and ODBC connection between VB6 and Access and FoxPro in order to mirror biodatabases such as NCBI and UniProt
- Sourcesafe is our King (or Queen? I always get confused with the lack of gender in English words)
- Development will be focused solely on technology available to VB6 by MSFT, we don’t care about third-party modules

These are the initial goals. As I mentioned before, with massive synergy between the expected hundreds of co-developers, I guess release will be in the second quarter of 2009. Early second quarter.

I keep you posted.

You may not know …

Paulo Nuin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:58:22 +0000

I rarely write about myself around here (or anywhere else), so once in a while it’s good to do so. The extra-credit part of the Scientific Blog Meme, asked if one was able to write about his/her research. Well, mine was posted yesterday.

You may not know, but when I was really young I always wanted to be a book writer, and when I was 16, 17, I started writing (bad) poetry, but ended up never developing it, after life threw some bad things at me.

Thanks a lot for the 25 brave souls that read it.

the 11th hour

Paulo Nuin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:43:00 +0000

In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Crooks

Paulo Nuin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:26:15 +0000

There’s a limit to everything, and when a friend is involved, things get serious. Nils Reinton posted a link on FriendFeed of a company (?!?) in Singapore using a logo that looks very similar to Ricardo Vidal’s logo for the DNA Network.

The original is here and the crooks are here.

Compare.

Software that I would never buy or use (even free)

Paulo Nuin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:56:05 +0000

FortiClient
Mendeley
Internet Explorer (yes, I know, I used it before)
ADrive

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