Cognitive Consonance

This is a post intended to help people trying to produce Python libraries and applications in 64-bit Windows (i.e. native 64-bit binaries, not just 32-bit applications running on 64-bit Windows). It reflects what I have learned when trying to compile and run Biopython. Corrections and comments are m

Returning to my pet Google plus problem, in this case with an example: I wanted to share, with a circle the following video (spoken by Carl Sagan): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw With Facebook it is trivial: In youtube there is a share button, I click it, a window opens where I can add s

Once again Google failed to understand the coolest feature of Facebook. The only difference this time is that they can still correct it. Arguably the allure of Facebook is the social part of things. Part of it is a more private Twitter, actually a better twitter: you are not limited to 140 character

My dear Finnish friends, Recently you have been asked to bail us out. That you should use your hard earned money to help us. If you are going to help us, I think you are entitled to make some hard questions. And to be quite frank, I do not have any good answers. You could [...]