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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me

Duncan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:35:03 -0500

counterpoint

Neil — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:12:36 -0500

The counterpoint to that Guardian article is here. Sadly much of the discussion that it generated consists of Americans whining that Europeans hate them.

I love a conspiracy theory, but that piece was pretty shoddy. And you can't delete your account can you? It's just deactivated. More evidence!

With Friends like Facebook, who needs Enemies?

Duncan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:41:50 -0500

The Nodalpoint group on Farcebook now has 80 members.

This is great but it gets more and more tempting every day to Delete your Facebook account if you suffer from paranoia. That article might overstate Facebook conspiracy theories, but its an interesting read all the same.

Looks Good

Duncan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:22:05 -0500

Looks Good, I think there might be more than one initiative in this particular space. Euan Adie might know more, its similar to the postgenomic markup...

Blogging Research Icon

dalloliogm — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:29:24 -0500

eheh ok I will blog fast... but I hope I won't die too young :)

Have a look at this:
- Blogging Research Icons

they propose to use a standard icon when blogging about a scientific peer-reviewed paper, to distinguish all the posts on research from the others. I think it is a nice idea.

Blog fast and die young :)

Duncan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:59:41 -0500

Blog fast and die young :)

Very nice post! :) I will

dalloliogm — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:02:12 -0500

Very nice post! :)
I will put the "hard bloggin' scientist" logo on my weblog.

Yes, it is dead :-)

albrecht — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:50:05 -0400

I was maintaining it, but I and others collaborators had a small objective blog focus problem and
as the computers that this blog is hosted arent my, I decided to create a new blog in portugues, that was cited here: "pihisall.wordpress.com".
Usually I post about programming, languages and bioinformatics and a lot of the texts and papers that I put there is in english.

So, everybody that read Portuguese, are welcome to visit, comment and collaborate with it.
Bye and thanks all.

Upgrading to Drupal 5.x and

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:13:25 -0400

Upgrading to Drupal 5.x and adding the spam filter module literally saved my sanity. What you don't see as a user of the site is the endless spam accounts and postings created. It is never ending, and as far as I can tell, not automated. The fact that it is not automated scares me in a loose-all-hope-in-humanity kind of way. What it means is that there are people out there who do nothing more than register for bogus accounts on sites like nodalpoint and then try to post spam; you can literally see it happen in real time.

Anyway, I'll try to tweak the word list in the filter, as it seems to have been skewed by one or two spam comments. So if your comment doesn't get through, don't be alarmed, I monitor the site daily and I will reverse it. In the mean time I've added some users to the trusted user role, this will allow by pass of the spam filter, and admin access to a few areas of the site (content moderation for example).

Sure, if you don't mind. It

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:35:19 -0400

Sure, if you don't mind.

It seems the site spam filter has been slightly borked, and it's throwing up a lot of false positives, this is why your original comments didn't appear.

It hasn't been updated for

nuin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:09:24 -0400

It hasn't been updated for about an year, it might be dead.

spam filter

dalloliogm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:15:09 -0400

The spam filter is really strong... it seems to block all the entries with too many blank lines.
Can you reduce it a bit?

I can look for other blogs on bioinformatics

dalloliogm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:03:19 -0400

Ok, thanks!
If you want, I can handle this: I will look for blogs in other languages and contact their authors.

I've already added a few entries to the wiki.

bioinformatics blog from brasil

dalloliogm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:51:04 -0400

et voilà, brasilian blog on bioinformatics:
- http://www.biowebdb.org/bioinformatica/

Well, that's all, I don't understand very much of portuguese :)

After running the indexer

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:11:20 -0400

After running the indexer manually search seems to be working.