Category Archives: Computing
How to Boot Mac OS X From a Western Digital My Passport Studio External Drive
I own a Western Digital My Passport Studio 320 GB external hard drive, which I purchased a few weeks ago as a backup drive for my MacBook Pro. The drive came with three cables, a FireWire 800 cable, a FireWire … Continue reading
Blogging From My iPod touch
After a long hiatus spent posting tweets on my Twitter account and diving into Facebook, I have decided to get back to posting to my blog. One way to make blogging easier for me is to begin writing posts from … Continue reading
Book Review: Learning Python, 3rd Edition (1)
Utterly bewitched by this dramatic and thrilling panel from an xkcd.com comic strip, I have decided that it is time I learned the Python programming language. I come to Python as a bioinformatics scientist who is experienced in C, C++, … Continue reading
Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, was written by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane and published by O’Reilly in May, 2004. I purchased this book in 2005 when I was doing some consulting for a microarray … Continue reading
On Becoming a WordPress Master
I hope I won’t write too many posts about the mechanics of blogging, but I have spent the entire day studying Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, by Eric A. Meyer, in an effort to solve some minor … Continue reading
