Institute of Neuroinformatics' Blog

The institute I work for now has its own blog:
http://neuroinformatic.blogspot.ch/

Time to blog again

Shortly after my last blog entry, I was re-assigned to a new project. I didn't really feel I could blog about it, since at the time the project had no other web presence. So I stopped blogging altogether. Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the proverbial structure built to span a valley, road, body of water or other physical obstacle. Notably, for me at least:

• I met Alan Cox at a conference (he's the one with the beard, I'm the one crouching down to talk to him with my back to the camera in the bottom left hand corner);
• I moved house;
  
• I learnt Python;
• I learnt Java.

One of the things I've worked on has been the home page for that new project, CX3D, a tool for simulating the growth of cerebral cortex in 3D, so I've no more excuses for not blogging anymore. Let's see how long I go on for this time :-)

The 'Publish' checkbox

Why so long between the event (30th March) and the blog entry (18th April, see
below)? Well, I had tried to use Mail-to-Blogger feature, but I hadn't checked
the checkbox labelled 'Publish' (which reads as though it's about publishing the
'secret' Mail-to-Blogger email address, not the posts themselves) and my post
got lost. As Blogging is not the be-all and end-all of my life I was content to
leave it lost for couple of weeks, but now I've found the problem. The
undocumented 'Publish' checkbox.

First post

So, I've been in posession of a nice clean, empty blog for a few weeks now, but have been putting off actually posting something here for some while. The orginal idea was mostly to blog at a low volume, but rather high frequency (~once a day) so that my colleagues can read about what I'm curently working on. And of course, I hope to be able to show off some moderately interesting/cool/useful stuff occasionally. The first real post follows...