Google Original Storage

Have you ever imagined how Google's original storage look like? Check this out!!

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.htm

LaTeX with PowerPoint

I've been searching for a long time an efficient way to use mathematical notations in MS PowerPoint. Tried to use full LaTeX-based presentation by using Prosper or Beamer, I've found it's not so handy and hard to express ideas quickly. Nothing perfect but I've found a few workarounds:

• TexPoint : Unfortunately, it's not free now. However, some old versions are free and available here via http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/freetex.html. I verified that its working with MS PowerPoint 2007. To use the old version, DOS version ghostscript (gswin32c.exe. Available from here)
• MyTeXPoint : Free and cool. I like this.

More lists can be found in Wikipedia under "Formula editor" section.

The moment of proof: Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Very impressive video clip in Youtube about Andew Wiles's moment of proof on Fermat's Last Theorem

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4CAD64C2B9EB170A

[TIP] Forwarding RSS updates to your email

I've been using Google RSS Reader but recently I've noticed that it would be better to receive RSS updates directly through emails in on-line manner. The following site solves this problem: http://www.rssfwd.com/

By the way, if you want to see my shared items in Google reader, follow this link

Future work for V-Lab-Protein

We - Youngik Yang, Sun Kim, and I - have been working on integrating bioinformatics applications with the workflow engine used in V-Lab-Protein. We found that the following features are missing, which need to be considered for future improvement.

• Dynamic user input : Currently, in our workflow engine XBaya, user input is somewhat static and should be determined before execution of a workflow, while some workflow engines like Tevana enable a user to intervene the execution of workflow and change input values dynamically.
• GUI automation : Thanks to GFac, we can simply run command-line applications in our workflow engine. However, to integrate various applications into a workflow execution, including GUI-based applications like Java applets and Web services, we need something like AppleScript which can automate or simulate human mouse and keyboard activities.

Personally, I think it would be also interesting to develop something like a remote desktop with web interface. Now we are observing so many great web applications which give the illusion to use a desktop in a web browser. So, I believe it will be possible to build a Web-based remote desktop application. Using Microsoft's Silverlight or Adobe's Flash will be interesting for this purpose. 

Windows Live Writer

I'm posting this message by using Windows Live Writer. It's fun to use. I'm interesting in building a plug-in to expedite the use of microformats. I will keep posted.

Dive into a BLOG World

I have decided to dive into a blogger world. I will post things related with my study, such as Web 2.0 and the Internet technologies.