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Euan

Euan

Web geek at Nature Publishing Group.
The Sony eReader won't read EPUBs over 300k in size?!
Ah, *chapters* over 300k. Could do with more guidance on this issue, Sony...
Recommendations from experts from wisdom of the crowds in niche areas: interesting paper http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009...
Got incorrect off the cuff genetic counseling at A&E today frm a medic. He was convinced chance complex diseases are passed on is 50% (!)
OK, Adobe Air is pretty cool. Makes up for Reader.
Finger paste to keep lab monkeys happy: http://www.microkhan.com/2009...
RT @ananyo An internship available @NatureNews in either our DC or UK offices http://blogs.nature.com/news...
Freakin' Reply to All.
@janekm I want smaller, not bigger, and custom overlays on top of the video... :)
Using nature.com opensearch interface as a convenient content API, getting titles / journals for DOIs.
Given that it's a multimedia device and how slick some parts of the SDK are it's surprising how limited video playback is on the iPhone.
re: BBC iD ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs... ) if your login and registration system has its own brand something's wrong. Who but you cares?
RT @dancohen Missed that Microsoft launched its Academic Search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Disappointed that ICANN's "non-Latin domain names" plan doesn't mean I can register google.com with alternate unicode "o"s
Tried to install Raindrop. Hit problems with Twisted. Gave up after forty five minutes - don't have time for this kind of thing. :(
CouchDBX — The one-click CouchDB Package for your Mac - http://janl.github.com/couchdb...
Drag and Drop in Firefox 3.5 - http://decafbad.com/2009...
MobileRead Wiki - E-book Reader Matrix - http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki...
Google searches for STM + iPhone just turn up references to an app called "Spank the Monkey". Not clicking on that one.
Why is it that the emails that I'd like to be taken most seriously have the most typos?
16k for a three word email + graphical footer. The internet is crying.
Not a big fan of Jack Black's rock schtick normally but I'm enjoying Brütal Legend immensely.
40% of devs here are going to be writing in Ruby #swlhd
Question of how to keep annotations in the right place in the text (while letting people edit and move stuff around freely) came up #swlhd
Pfft, lots of LaTeX talk. Bloody physicists.... ;) #swlhd
Had to run from #swlhd for a meeting but had though about collaborative protocols writing (w/ gadgets for timing, calculators etc.)
Kindle for PC - interesting. Could do with a Kindle emulator too, though, to help debug mobipocket content...
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