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Did some coding last night. It was the first time I’d done that with
the Dvorak keymap. It was good, since I still really have to think
about what I’m typing – which actually resulted in less buggy
code. Now I just need to remap my Emacs keys so that C-q
C-o works for C-x C-s.
Building a new LinuxPPC kernel
luigui.org: Linux/UNIX Independent Group for Usability Information – good name, great idea.
Big Bugs. For you Neal Stephenson fans, note the use of the PATEOTS measurement.
Uncontrolled Experiment: America’s dependency on foreign scientists
“American science, in other words, is based on a Ponzi scheme.”
More cool keyboards that I can’t afford on my meager salary (see the above story…)
The bioperl.org gang is going to get together at Bioperl '99. Wish I could be there…
Review of the forthcoming MacOS 8.6
More PNAS papers that merit a trip to the library (insert obligatory rant about free Web access to science journals…)
- Escherichia coli genes regulated by cell-to-cell signaling
- Assigning protein functions by comparative genome analysis: Protein phylogenetic profiles</a>
- Oligoribonuclease is an essential component of the mRNA decay pathway
- Expression pattern and, surprisingly, gene length shape codon usage in Caenorhabditis, Drosophila, and Arabidopsis
- Comparative genomic hybridization, loss of heterozygosity, and DNA sequence analysis of single cells