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 […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
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 […]
No surprises, but some drama, on this weekend in college football
Yesterday was generally viewed as a less than exciting weekend for college football matchups. A few teams flirted with upsets, but the only top 25 team to lose was Arizona State, who played #5 Stanford. The Ags, Cardinal, and Badgers all won convincingly. A&M and Stanford were on at the same time, so I mostly […]
Not all wins and losses are the same
It can be argued that a win is a win and a loss is a loss, and from the point of view of calculating standings it doesn’t matter how you win or lose. But the aesthetics are not the same, and the loss at the Alamo or at Thermopylae are remembered very differently than the […]
Firefox 23 mixed content blocking and Galaxy
The Galaxy genomics workbench has problems with mixed content blocking in Firefox 23 when it’s running under https, which it should be based on sending logins and passwords. When you click on any of the public data sources (e.g. UCSC Tables) under Get Data, Firefox blocks it. The solution is to turn off mixed content […]
Almost perfect day of college football yesterday
Stanford, Wisconsin, Texas A&M all won Texas, USC, and Notre Dame lose Mitigating factors: it’s early, and wins were against weaker opponents. couldn’t watch the Badgers, didn’t ppv for the Ags Cardinal and Aggies wins still leave concerns about future success. For the Ags, the future is next Saturday, when Alabama comes to town with […]
Weird, given Marissa Mayer’s rep from Google
I first heard of Marissa Mayer from a podcast of this talk from the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. As I recall, one of the intereresting things was the way Google tested UI options and gathered data about what did or did not work for users. Given that, I am kind of surprised how hideous […]