Nanoha StrikerS episode 1

The first episode of Maho Shojo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was aired in Japan recently, and I got the chance to see it. I admit I was rather interested because I liked both the original Nanoha and its sequel Nanoha A’s. Both redefined the “Magical Girl” genre, that was in my opinion somewhat stale since the end of Sailormoon, with many twists and a lot of added action.

March 30, 2007

Playing with Feisty Fawn

Recently (before my tendinitis forced me to avoid using my desktop computer) I installed the beta version of Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).

March 29, 2007

GenBUGG

This entry already shows what I think of a popular open source pathway analysis and visualization program, GenMAPP. It’s quite used to map gene expression data coming from microarrays to metabolic pathways, and in addition to that you can also evaluate enrichment for both pathways and Gene Ontology terms. Last but not least you can create and contribute new metabolic maps. So why the title of the post? Because, despite being actively developed and with conscious developers that don’t want to break the software with new features, it’s extremely buggy.

March 23, 2007

Treasures of Aht Urghan Missions

On Wednesday 21st I was finally able to undertake the new Treasures of Aht Urghan missions! It felt nice, since I mostly play for merit points and Dynamis now (and occasionally some action in Al’Taieu, though rare and far between).

March 19, 2007

When you call a GM...

You usually don’t expect them to actually appear. Today, after a call made by my brother, was different… [![A GM!]({{ site.url }}/images/2007/03/img_0079.thumbnail.png)]({{ site.url }}/images/2007/03/img_0079.png)

March 17, 2007

Relic armor on mannequins is stupid

A lot of times when doing Dynamis it happens that people lot for a particular piece of relic armor then when asking about the stats I see responses like “It’s crap” or something similar. This brings the question: why do you want it in the first place? To put it on a mannequin to show off? There **is no use_ _**for relic armor unless worn. So, next time you make a lot, do the others a favor, save it for pieces you really want and let people who want to use the blasted things go first.

March 14, 2007

Dancougar Nova 4

And so again, I watched last week (yes, I am behind) the fourth episode of Dancougar Nova. The title looks promising: Akai Dancougar (The red Dancougar), which implies that there is another Dancougar around, although the opening animation already hinted at that.

March 13, 2007

A BED file builder

As I anticipated, I can finally release this small script. Its purpose is to build BED files out of tab-delimited text files. I made this because I had several files to make and moving columns left and right (not to mention writing a heading line for the Genome Browser) was becoming annoying. Its use is fairly straightforward, as the help itself says:

March 13, 2007

A change

Just something different, for a change. I got up this morning and on one of my windows I saw this: [![Cats]({{ site.url }}/images/2007/03/026.thumbnail.JPG)]({{ site.url }}/images/2007/03/026.JPG) (for the record, those are my two cats, Minou on the left and Matisse on the right)

March 12, 2007

Old code

Today I went over my old Python code, back when I first started programming. I’d say that I found what I had written to be largely amusing to say the least. Loads of ugly hacks all over the place, duplicated functions, etc… in short, a real mess. I’m quite happy of the results I achieved in the past month, since I finally learnt how to code properly and started making my own classes (this book was immensely helpful).