Why Use XTabulator?

A well-known player in independent Mac developer circles recently told me he didn't get why you'd use XTabulator over Excel for CSV, TAB, etc. I thought I'd share (the relevant parts of) my tongue-in-cheek response. Continue reading »

Snow Leopard & Consistency

Even after using it for months, I'm still noticing things on Snow Leopard that make me wonder if 10A432 really should have been the GM release. I think a little bit more polishing should've been done before release. My list of (mostly nontrivial) bugs are still "open". Continue reading »

Bioinformatics Festival

This past Thursday, my group had its first annual"Bioinformatics Festival". Continue reading »

District 9

Matt and I watched District 9 last night. I'll be blunt: those who proclaimed it "the best SciFi movie of 2009" are either smoking crack or drinking "the fluid". I enjoyed the Star Trek film far more. Continue reading »

On Morons

Personally, I think Barney Frank's response to the moron at the town hall meeting was perfect. These people - morons like the woman in question , I mean - have no problem whatsoever lobbing strong, hateful missiles to promote their views. Why the hell shouldn't we respond just as strongly? Continue reading »