castanyes blaves

Random ramblings about some random stuff, and things; but more stuff than things -- all in a mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic soapbox-like flow of words.

12/28/2007

Keeping up with technology (spanish)

http://muchachadanui.rtve.es/videos/09-la-cinta-vhs.html

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Mira quien se queja (spanish) -- internet **plorer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWyKOvX00h0&NR=1

posted by avilella # 3:58 PM 0 Comments

12/26/2007

www.gopubmed.org

Interesting...

posted by avilella # 5:44 PM 0 Comments

12/23/2007

Perl smart-match operator

http://use.perl.org/articles/07/12/22/1855215.shtml

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12/18/2007

I was promised this a while ago...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?ex=1355634000&en=091b06819623f9d0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of solar power manufacturing.

The company, which has raised $150 million and built a 200,000-square-foot factory here, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” photovoltaic material on aluminum backing, a process the company says will reduce the manufacturing cost of the basic photovoltaic module by more than 80 percent.

Nanosolar, which recently hired a top manufacturing executive from I.B.M., said that it had orders for its first 18 months of manufacturing capacity. The photovoltaic panels will be made in Silicon Valley and in a second plant in Germany.

While many photovoltaic start-up companies are concentrating on increasing the efficiency with which their systems convert sunlight, Nanosolar has focused on lowering the manufacturing cost. Its process is akin to a large printing press, rather than the usual semiconductor manufacturing techniques that deposit thin films on silicon wafers.

Nanosolar’s founder and chief executive, Martin Roscheisen, claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less than $1 a watt. That is the price at which solar energy becomes less expensive than coal.

“With a $1-per-watt panel,” he said, “it is possible to build $2-per-watt systems.”

According to the Energy Department, building a new coal plant costs about $2.1 a watt, plus the cost of fuel and emissions, he said.

The first Nanosolar panels are destined for a one-megawatt solar plant to be installed in Germany on a former landfill owned by a waste management company. The plant, being developed by Beck Energy, is expected to initially supply electrical power for about 400 homes.

The company chose to build its plant in southern San Jose, news that was cheered by local development officials. Much of the microelectronics industry created here has moved to Asia and new factories are a rare commodity in Silicon Valley.

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12/17/2007

Building openoffice for Gutsy

http://avilella.googlepages.com/openoffice

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12/16/2007

Guess who wrote...

Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems

http://www.nrsp.com/articles/07.12.13-open%20letter%20to%20the%20un%20secretary%20general.html

Now, don't blame me if you spelt your coffee/tea/milk while reading this!

posted by avilella # 8:19 PM 0 Comments

12/14/2007

bioperl alignment tips and tricks

Hopefully this will be one of many tips and tricks related to using bioperl, specially the alignment, phylogenetics and population genetics tools in the bioperl toolkit. If you want to have a look at your codon alignment in the debugger:

x Bio::AlignIO->new(-format => 'phylip', -fh => \*STDOUT, -interleaved => 1, -tag_length=>3)->write_aln($aln)

which prints it in tags of length 3, corresponding to the codons.

posted by avilella # 9:55 AM 0 Comments

Interesting developments in plant genomics

http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/CSP2005/physcomitrella.html

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12/13/2007

Godless taxraisers are fearing us about this Global Warming issue...

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12/07/2007

Catalan traditions -- lesson 1 -- the pooper

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=caganer&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

posted by avilella # 3:11 PM 0 Comments

12/06/2007

Larry Wall and his way of looking at things...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html?page=2

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12/05/2007

Guess who said (in spanish)...

"La única manera de poder presentar mi libro en Catalunya seria en un cuartel de la Guardia Civil, que seria la única manera de mantener a ralla a Rovireche y a toda esta patulea de terroristas sin arrepentir..."

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12/04/2007

Noam Chomsky on Climate Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnI3evvPdcQ

posted by avilella # 1:32 PM 0 Comments

Noam Chomsky on Iran (youtube)

yes, youtube... :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzB39sVSgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O5_nA3PStI

posted by avilella # 10:34 AM 0 Comments

12/02/2007

broth Catalan way

carrot
leek
celery
turnip (optional)
parsnip (optional)

chicken (optional)
veal bones (optional)
pork bones (optional)

minced veal and pork
- 100gr and 100gr
- garlic and parsley
- an egg
- flour
make the meat balls

boil for 2h, add the meat balls after 30min
add chickpeas after 1h40min if already boiled
keep adding more water (hot, microwaved) if necessary

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