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16 May 2013 → Some Thoughts on web scale annotation.
27 Apr 2013 → Some thoughts on the Taylor and Francis Survey.
23 Apr 2013 → Communicating better, moving from virtualenv to vagrant/Chef
24 Mar 2013 → Font, Spring 2013, preview
24 Mar 2013 → Font, Spring 2011, quick report
24 Mar 2013 → Climbing review of 2012, goals 2013.
30 Jan 2013 → ENCODE - an example of open publication and data integration.
23 Jan 2013 → Product Tank 6, big data
12 Nov 2012 → SpotOn day 2.
11 Nov 2012 → SpotOn day 1.
11 Nov 2012 → The new food.
10 Nov 2012 → Last minute changes to our solo12journals line up.
28 Oct 2012 → The journal is dead, long live the journal - abstract.
11 Oct 2012 → Data literature integration workshop.
03 Oct 2012 → Mtpcon
02 Oct 2012 → Going for gold, open access debate.
22 Aug 2012 → The slow web, more thoughtful experiences.
17 Jul 2012 → sharing documents with google apps for your domain
17 Jul 2012 → academic ghost towns, Google scholar and Mendeley
12 Jul 2012 → The cost of production
11 Jul 2012 → XMP wrangling on OS X
08 Jul 2012 → What use metaphor?
02 Jul 2012 → Elio
26 Jun 2012 → Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?
18 Jun 2012 → Some Thoughts on Peer Review and Altmetrics
17 Jun 2012 → Augmented Peer Review
17 Jun 2012 → Super quick start guide to fluidinfo
08 May 2012 → The Tractaus, a mini-review
05 May 2012 → Leaving Mendeley
18 Jan 2012 → Mendeley, an investment branch of the citation bank.
17 Jan 2012 → SOPA and PIPA stink, but the RWA is more dangerous to science.
08 Jan 2012 → Climbing Goals 2012, review 2011
21 Nov 2011 → example title
20 Nov 2011 → Update on MathJax
13 Oct 2011 → Converting between dates and unix time in Python
07 Oct 2011 → Nature, Whiskey and me
06 Oct 2011 → Hindawi have an awesome reviewing system.
03 Oct 2011 → Megajournals
03 Oct 2011 → The rude health of Open Access Publishing.
02 Sep 2011 → SOLO11, day1, morning sessions.
02 Sep 2011 → Science Online London Keynote, Michael Nielson on Open Sciecne
01 Sep 2011 → Talkfest, science and community
30 Aug 2011 → ArXiV at 20, a brief review.
08 Aug 2011 → Serendipity, a chance encounter (obviously)
31 Mar 2011 → Robert Bunsen's Birthday
30 Mar 2011 → Sits meeting notes, November 2010.
29 Mar 2011 → mini-review of "Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale"
27 Feb 2011 → Our gospels define us
06 Feb 2011 → Rat in the Snow
04 Jan 2011 → Turning the Physics ArXiV into an Open Peer Review System.
20 Dec 2010 → Cancelled :( Drinks with Chris Wiggins.
13 Dec 2010 → Wrangling image metadata
14 Nov 2010 → Video workflow with a mac using iMovie and capturing with a Lumix GF1
02 Nov 2010 → San Francisco, and science hack day discussions
02 Nov 2010 → DLF opening keynote, beyond buckets and boxes
02 Nov 2010 → Arriving in Paulo Alto for the DLF fall forum
18 Oct 2010 → save mailfolder messages to a file using applescript
24 Sep 2010 → Citation Style Language
14 Sep 2010 → The Future of Knowledge Organisation on the Web, a one day conference.
13 Sep 2010 → Slides from APS Talk, August, 2010
07 Sep 2010 → Connecting Scientific Resources, Slides
06 Sep 2010 → science scraping with YQL
27 Aug 2010 → Connecting Scientific Resources
23 Aug 2010 → Passing arguments in liquid templates.
15 Aug 2010 → Testing Code Hilighting
14 Jul 2010 → Notes from JISC activity streams workshop
05 Jul 2010 → Read mail in intervals on OS X
03 Jul 2010 → my first post
12 May 2010 → hackney are fuckers.
04 May 2010 → Edinburgh, first draft
29 Apr 2010 → A mini rant about LaTeX
13 Apr 2010 → creating a tumblog
22 Mar 2010 → The three ages of Elvis in potatoes!
17 Mar 2010 → Kierkegaard, forgetting and existence
19 Feb 2010 → Python PEP for a graph API
10 Feb 2010 → Probabilistic language models, auto-correction tools and scientific discovery.
08 Feb 2010 → 4 ways to set the heigth of your open social gadget
04 Feb 2010 → What's the right amount to charge for phone content?
04 Feb 2010 → Identity systems, science and the internet
04 Feb 2010 → Cost benefit of publishing academic books,
04 Feb 2010 → Banks and Credit Card companies are fuckers
02 Feb 2010 → what makes a chocolate "cheeky"
29 Jan 2010 → opensocial development on eclipse, starting the web server
28 Jan 2010 → quick thoughts on the iPad
20 Jan 2010 → Usage of graph layouts on Biostor
04 Jan 2010 → Climbing Goals 2010, review 2009.
01 Dec 2009 → dreaming of snow
01 Dec 2009 → Keeping Dopplr and iCal in two way sync.
20 Nov 2009 → Strange anxiety dream
31 Oct 2009 → Notes from the Google Wave London roadshow
19 Oct 2009 → Django models vs. Pickling objects for object persistence.
03 Oct 2009 → An interesting invitation
25 Aug 2009 → Comparing Windmill to Safariwatir
17 Aug 2009 → Cron, python and Google Wave
13 Aug 2009 → Why I think the Drake equation is a crock of shit.
29 Jul 2009 → Swine flu t-shirts
11 Jun 2009 → Fluid Dynamics in the Browser
20 May 2009 → unknown post
16 Apr 2009 → Another great example of how being lazy can reap great rewards
14 Apr 2009 → notes on "Classes of complex networks deﬁned by role-to-role connectivity proﬁles"
14 Apr 2009 → Why measure scientists and their work?
14 Apr 2009 → Neat blog on Sankey diagrams.
13 Apr 2009 → Why I'm setting up this blog
13 Apr 2009 → Moving over to the googleverse
13 Apr 2009 → Grave of the reverend Thomas Bayes
13 Apr 2009 → Directed Graph blog setup.
12 Apr 2009 → testing latex and syntax hilighting on blogger
12 Apr 2009 → Getting listed on nature blogs
12 Apr 2009 → Adding a tag cloud to blogger
10 Mar 2009 → I woke up today and git-svn was broken.
09 Mar 2009 → Rail in the UK is really pretty shitty
02 Mar 2009 → other tips for new york
02 Mar 2009 → Five places to eat in New York, mmmmm
18 Feb 2009 → unknown post
18 Feb 2009 → Training Diary Catchup
18 Feb 2009 → Not a smart way to do this.
13 Feb 2009 → Wrangling data from a mysql db
10 Feb 2009 → Training diary, week 5
09 Feb 2009 → Converting a mysql schmea into an entity relationship diagram
07 Feb 2009 → Even Santa goes to see the rugby
02 Feb 2009 → weekly training log, week 4
02 Feb 2009 → Weekly training report, week 3
21 Jan 2009 → wrapping c code for python using swig on Mac OS X
21 Jan 2009 → unknown post
21 Jan 2009 → Code Higlighting in Blogger
17 Jan 2009 → Weekly training report, week 2
14 Jan 2009 → Is RSS dead, and why is it dying?
12 Jan 2009 → Nasty week ahead
09 Jan 2009 → World War II, Science and Springer Authors
08 Jan 2009 → Wekly training report, week 1.
23 Dec 2008 → Review of Climbing Goals for 2008.
21 Dec 2008 → what apps do I want on the iPhone?
21 Dec 2008 → test a link
21 Dec 2008 → subprime mortgage crises explained using stick figures
21 Dec 2008 → star wars
21 Dec 2008 → social networks
21 Dec 2008 → scribed is cool, but
21 Dec 2008 → sadly I've just discovered that vox sucks
21 Dec 2008 → question of the day, evil vice presidents
21 Dec 2008 → progress
21 Dec 2008 → perl and again,
21 Dec 2008 → nice idea for improving the six nations rugby tournament
21 Dec 2008 → networks; head to head
21 Dec 2008 → network branching, netsci08
21 Dec 2008 → netsci08 opening keynote
21 Dec 2008 → netsci08 blogging
21 Dec 2008 → mozy backup service
21 Dec 2008 → incentives
21 Dec 2008 → ikea is like a biological machine
21 Dec 2008 → iPhone prediction market
21 Dec 2008 → how to learn python
21 Dec 2008 → getting married and buying an iPhone are probably incompatible.
21 Dec 2008 → further confustion
21 Dec 2008 → drowning in the streamosphere
21 Dec 2008 → digital archeology, finding traces in the bits
21 Dec 2008 → collaborative intelligence and the pidgeonhole problem
21 Dec 2008 → climbing milestone
21 Dec 2008 → chasing cars
21 Dec 2008 → bus podcast idea
21 Dec 2008 → blogging darwin
21 Dec 2008 → a great presentation about books and community
21 Dec 2008 → Your Brightkite Invite
21 Dec 2008 → Why the LHC is not really that impressive
21 Dec 2008 → We have been nominated for a webby
21 Dec 2008 → Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter)
21 Dec 2008 → Ubigraph
21 Dec 2008 → The gap between Open Access and Editorial Quality
21 Dec 2008 → Testing out a new blog platform
21 Dec 2008 → Soft peer review
21 Dec 2008 → Predictably Irrational
21 Dec 2008 → Networks in Space, Mark Newman, netsci08
21 Dec 2008 → Max OS X does not have gethrtime and as a result cannot load Time::HR
21 Dec 2008 → I didn't expect lock in so quickly
21 Dec 2008 → How I learned to stop worrying and love RSS
21 Dec 2008 → Efficient Name Disambiguation for Large-Scale Databases
21 Dec 2008 → Creationism as Science,
21 Dec 2008 → Cloverfield
21 Dec 2008 → A minor milestone in leisurely reading
14 Jul 2008 → weekend grill
14 Jul 2008 → spreading of meme's behavior driven transmission of an idea
14 Jul 2008 → sometimes, just sometimes a piece of news makes me smile
14 Jul 2008 → restaurant BAYOU Berlin
14 Jul 2008 → pythonic is a way of thinking
14 Jul 2008 → Patents and Peer Review, kissing cousins?
14 Jul 2008 → open science
14 Jul 2008 → mozy backup service
14 Jul 2008 → live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Matt's talk
14 Jul 2008 → live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Matt's discussion
14 Jul 2008 → live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge, Laura James
14 Jul 2008 → live blogging from BarCamp Cambridge,
14 Jul 2008 → google reader now has search
14 Jul 2008 → getting started
14 Jul 2008 → get addicted, feed the world
14 Jul 2008 → friends of mine of TV
14 Jul 2008 → comment on climbing goals
14 Jul 2008 → and while we are at it here are the references from that article
14 Jul 2008 → agile programming
14 Jul 2008 → Weddings make you fat
14 Jul 2008 → Today at lunch duplicators and instantiators
14 Jul 2008 → Tips for switching from Windows to Mac
14 Jul 2008 → The fruitcakes have a talking form
14 Jul 2008 → The Laboratory Website and Video Awards
14 Jul 2008 → Simpsian
14 Jul 2008 → Sci - foo lurking
14 Jul 2008 → Potter prediction
14 Jul 2008 → Open Reviewing
14 Jul 2008 → New Terminal In Mac Os 10.5 Is Nice But Dont Forget That There Is A Bash_profile Out Of The Box
14 Jul 2008 → Money Saving Web Sites for Living in the UK
14 Jul 2008 → Mining social data, what Flickr tells us about place
14 Jul 2008 → Liam dropping by london
14 Jul 2008 → Installing Python Image Library on a Mac
14 Jul 2008 → If programming is magic, then the old languages are strong
14 Jul 2008 → Great places to hang out in Den Haag
14 Jul 2008 → Getting motivated for climbing
14 Jul 2008 → Get Slimmer Pets
14 Jul 2008 → CPANPLUS and Mac OSX
14 Jul 2008 → BarCamp Cambridge Jeff Fates, Drupal
14 Jul 2008 → BarCamp Cambridge - teacking computers to understand text, Peter Corbett
14 Jul 2008 → BarCamp Cambridge - James talking about HTML5
14 Jul 2008 → BarCamp Cambridge, Tom Morris, Semantic Web for hackers
14 Jul 2008 → BarCamp Cambridge, ARM microcontroler
14 Jul 2008 → Are Academics Prostitutes
14 Jul 2008 → An idea for an interface for picture search
29 Jun 2006 → Volvox
26 Jun 2006 → Economics and The New World Order,
26 Jun 2006 → Economics and The New World Order,