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Google Acquires AppJet – are there any live, functional alternatives to Etherpad?

By On December 4, 2009 · 1 Comment

We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team.

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The EtherPad site will stay online through March 2010 with some restrictions.

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No new free public pads may be created. Your pads will [...]

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Feeling a bit stupid…

By On November 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I really should have read this and this before trying to upgrade my Slicehost slice to Ubuntu Karmic last night.
Wondered why the darned thing wouldn’t [...]

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Eee PC & Eeebuntu

By On June 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been hankering after a netbook for a while. Not just new shiny gadget lust (though that is certainly part of it, I’m only human after all), but a small machine with good battery life would be ideal for on the road, and for all the chugging round campus (and beyond) to meetings I do [...]

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Experiments with MindMapping

By On May 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been experimenting with various forms of note taking recently. I keep my daily diary on my wiki, but struggle to capture my every note there, because of the editing overhead, and requirement to be online (which I often am not during meetings, for example). So I have tried

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Mining literature for PPIs

By On April 1, 2009 · 1 Comment

You know an article is going to be good when it starts with a sentence like ‘Due to the overwhelming increase in [sequence data/transcriptomics data/etc]…’. So an opening gambit of ‘With the overwhelming amount and exponential increase of biomedical literature[...]‘ filled me with the promise of things to come.

The aim of this [...]

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