July 2003

Being Influential in a Networked (Lazy?) World

Today, I googled for an exact phrase from one of my definitions of bioinformatics—as used in my Bioinformatics FAQ. In that form, Google had crawled my definition in over 40 different locations, usually attributed. Among other places, it shows up in a patent application, lecture notes, presentations, advertisements and homepages. I’ve defined a scientific field! […]

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Profit

Sainsbury’s took back the CD and gave me ,A#(B10 against the original ,A#(B9.99 price. I didn’t even get a chance to express righteous outrage at the customer services counter. Why must I be so understood?

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Fixed

Another Website on this server was attacked this week. I have not been able to post over the past couple of days because the attack triggered a security block. This affected my access both from work and home. I had the spooky experience of knowing that people were visiting my site and even received email […]

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Annie Lennox: Utter Bollox

I picked up two cheap CDs at Sainsbury’s this evening. I bought Evanescence‘s Fallen on the strength of the single, currently being given away as an MP3 at MP3.com. Giving it away has not prevented it from lodging at number one in the UK charts for four weeks. All publishers of all content take note. […]

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