16 October 2009
My Life in the Clouds 2: Synchronising Files Between Computers
Problem: I have files on one computer at work and I want to access them at home or when I am travelling. Solution: Dropbox (there are other services): Install the software, move the files into your dropbox folder and they get automatically synchronised Read More...
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31 July 2009
Office 2010 vs Google Docs
In yet another procrastinative distraction, I have been trialling Office 2010 (yes, if you work or study at UWA you are probably considered pretty bleeding edge for using Office 2003). The technical preview is not drastically different from Office 2007 Read More...
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10 January 2009
Real-time DNA Sequencing
A paper in Science ( Real-Time DNA Sequencing from Single Polymerase Molecules ) has reported a new technique that can sequence DNA 30,000 times faster than current techniques. The researchers are using tiny hollow metal cylinders (ZMW waveguides) on Read More...
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10 January 2009
On the internet, nothing is private
Researchers at Google have published a paper on the ability to identify people and their social network from "activity streams" on various sites even when people thought these were anonymous or not linked. Some of the problems have been publicised recently Read More...
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10 January 2009
Bush's Legacy in a Tag Cloud
The BBC has a great summary of Bush's priorities during his terms of office analysed by the frequency of use of particular words visualised in the tag cloud below. Medicare hardly gets a mention in 8 years, foreign policy was all about Iraq (not Afghanistan Read More...
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01 January 2009
Windows 7 (Beta 1) – Microsoft’s head clearly not in the clouds.
I have been playing with Windows 7 (Beta 1). This is the version of Windows that is going to save Microsoft from the public disappointment with Vista, although I have to say, as much as others have commented positively about it, I am hard pressed to spot Read More...
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25 December 2008
Yet another way to generate publications
Following on the heels of suspect maths journals (notice the self-citation) comes a conference paper accepted for the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (an IEEE sponsored and refereed conference) which was automatically Read More...
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24 December 2008
The power of self-citation and self-publishing – the case of el Naschie
El Naschie, a civil engineer is the editor-in-chief of a journal called Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. He is also an author on 322 papers published in this journal, 36 alone in the December 2008 issue. Lest you think this is some open access journal published Read More...
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11 November 2008
Cloud computing - silver lined or harbinger of storms?
Regarding cloud computing and the risks - I think we need to be careful with the assumption that corporations do not act in the interests of their customers or are incapable of acting in a socially responsible way - despite all of the rhetoric about Google Read More...
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16 June 2008
Spice up your research
A data visualisation service run by IBM called "many eyes" (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home) allows researchers to upload data and choose from one of a number of different and innovative visualisations that have proved to be the spark Read More...
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08 June 2008
Stockholm in 3D
Sweden's defense industry has combined with a gaming company to produce a 3D rendering of Stockholm ( available as a Java applet ) (in case you don't speak swedish, click "Till 3D-kartan" – the rest is pretty self-explanatory). The clever thing about Read More...
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05 June 2008
A National E-Health Strategy?
I have recently attended a meeting run by Deloitte soliciting input into a suggested national e-Health strategy that will be presented back to the Council of Australian Governments. I was part of a group representing GPs and primary health practitioners Read More...
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28 May 2008
Artistic/Academic Freedom
The recent case of Bill Henson's photographs being deemed "pornographic" has brought a renewed discussion about artistic freedom to the fore. What interested me were the parallels with "academic freedom" and another case recently in the news about academic Read More...
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28 May 2008
Astroturfing, washing puppies and bollywood
A great UWA site from students taking the communication studies unit "Digital Communication & Participatory Culture" that was run by Dr Peter Morse last year. Not really about research but it shows the potential of video blogging and it is entertaining Read More...
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28 April 2008
Design and the effectiveness of emails
Researchers at the University of Heidelberg have shown that emails sent out to advertise information concerning drug interactions during pregnancy were more likely to be effective (i.e. people clicked on a link to find out more information) if the email Read More...
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