Blind.Scientist

The guy who took me to Jupiter has died. No more monoliths.

Sun hired some good Python programmers/advocates/developers/thinkers, Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, of Jython fame. I hope it does no end as Solaris, the movie.

If I had a vote in these polls that decide for the best and (maybe) worst inventions I think these would be mine:

Best: Wheel
Worst: Cellphone

If you don’t like Snap preview tooltips (oh, they are so useful) you came to the right place. No, in fact it wasn’t me that invented it, the company that created Snap did it. You don’t need to thank me.

How can I turn Snap Shots on or off?

Click here (on their website FAQ) to disable Snap Shots. Please note you must reload the page or clear your cache for the change to take effect. Deactivation uses cookies, so if you delete your cookies, Snap Shots will be re-activated for all sites.

The JavaScript will save a cookie on your browser and you are free to surf without any further annoyance. Thankfully.

from 1 (Of Zen and Computing) and 2 (Lifehacker)

Leaving the Science behind, and thanks to the “beauty” of open office spaces fro bioinformatics development, I am able to enjoy three great music masterpieces (AKA the records I would take to an isolated island)

1- Black Love - Afghan Whighs

2- Heaven up Here - Echo and the Bunnymen

3- Starfish - The Church

Disclaimer: none of the links above are connected to the Amazon Associates program. I searched Amazon for the title and copied the url that appeared on my address bar.

Tornadoes? No. Earthquakes? No. Zombies? No. They want to control our minds and lower the standards globally. Enough of Beckhams, Rooneys and alikes. I want to see real football (soccer for the football-played-with-the-hand people).

Alerted by a message sent to the EvolDir mailing list I went to check the Scientific Direct Customized Mailing Lists. Very entertaining product.

Last week I registered to use a large online database of biological data. So far, so good, I started checking out what I was able to do, how to get data, the whole nine yards. Until I got to the main page, listing most of the database entries. I noticed that Firefox wasn’t showing the vertical scrollbar, so, evidently, I wasn’t able to scroll down and up the page to see the data.

Problems like this happen when the scrollbar is attached to a div instead of being set for the whole page. As a diligent user I dug for the web admin email address and sent a short message with the possible error, including a couple of screenshots, one from “buggy” Firefox and another from Konqueror (which displayed the page with no “errors”). I also mentioned that Firefox under Linux and Windows had problems showing the page.

A couple of days later I receive a polite reply explaining that Firefox isn’t supported to display their pages. Sorry!? I cleared my eyes and then I found a link to the requirements page where I saw a second time that they suggest you to use Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Next thing I did was to check a GPS just to make sure I wasn’t in Punxsutawney.

My humble internet “portal” served by the good guys at GeekISP are accessed by the following browsers
Firefox 49%
Internet Explorer 32%
Safari 10%
Opera 3%

I heard a rumor that it is 2008.