Imagine a boot stamping on your ideas forever

Via Daring Fireball, author Charlie Stross writes about his hatred of Microsoft word.  I don’t know enough to evaluate the technical arguments about design and file formats, including the comments left by a commenter “globetrotter” who self-identifies as a MS program manager for early versions of Word. But the empirical experience of Word is sufficient to […]

Ags survive Ole Miss

While the last couple of weeks have had some games where the top teams survived upsets, week 7 of the 2013 season saw ranked teams fall.  As Lou Holtz pointed out on College Gameday Final, fans forget that this is also the time for midterms. Between road trips and exams and being college-age kids, looking […]

Down goes Stanford

Last week I was at the GO consortium meeting in Bar Harbor, so I didn’t watch much football.  Since it was a bye week for the Badgers and the Aggies, only Stanford was in action of the teams I follow closely.  The Cardinal had a narrow escape in Seattle against the Washington Huskies which I […]

College football 2013 – week 5

Stanford and A&M won, while the Badgers fell in Columbus to favored Ohio State. Overlapping game times meant that I didn’t watch all of any game. In fact, I confess that I missed parts of the Ags opening drive to stick with the end of Georgia’s win over LSU. LSU at Georgia was clearly the […]

iPlant

Spent Thursday and Friday at an iPlant workshop I helped set up at Prairie View as part of a genomics education project I’m doing with Gloria Regisford in the PVAMU Biology Dept.  iPlant just got renewed by NSF and will be expanding their scope beyond plants.  The focus of the workshop was the DNA subway set […]