End of a year and time for some maintenance work.
And yes, I found a nice plugin to convert all useless pages to posts (sorry, there is no download page here anymore, it’s all in the blog hierarchy).
It would be also nice to check my 3056 links over the past 4 years and it looks good, what the link checker says (Show me more…)

Just recently I read an interesting blog entry of another internet veteran. I am reprinting here the main argument

The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. (Show me more…)

I need live circos plotting for an upcoming seminar next year.
After installing the most recent xcode, a new macports and a fresh GD library, I issued on the command prompt

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install gd2
which perl
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install MD5
cpan> install YAML
cpan> install CPAN
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> install Clone
cpan> install GD
cpan> install GD::Polyline (Show me more…)