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		<title>Why I use Dropbox, and why you should too: a (free) cloud-computing backup service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About once every 12 months I get genuinely excited about some technology or piece of software, and I hit the apex of that cycle yesterday. If you have a self-structured working schedule,tend to write for our businesses/sites/studies/etc. from a variety of locations or you just love techie things; you should be getting excited too.
My biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/it/why-i-use-dropbox-and-why-you-should-too-a-free-cloud-computing-backup-service/</link>
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		<title>CMap3D featured on the GMOD website, and at PAG18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my applications from my PhD, CMap3D has featured on the GMOD project&#8217;s news page. It even has its own GMOD wiki page too.

CMap3D is a 3D visualisation tool for comparative genetic/physical maps. The way that it works is by interfacing with data from an existing CMap comparative mapping installation. CMap is a GMOD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/bioinformatics/cmap3d-featured-on-the-gmod-website-and-at-pag18/</link>
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		<title>Sixth-sense: where the information superhighway meets the streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is amazingly Cool, and definitely with a capital C. Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry from MIT showcase Sixth Sense in this TED talk (video below). Sixth Sense is an augmented reality device that takes information from the net that is contextually relevant to what is currently in front of you, and seamlessly integrates it in to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/it/sixth-sense-where-the-information-superhighway-meets-the-streets/</link>
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		<title>Brisbane Riverfire 2009 fireworks: Drive-thru style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just re-found this video from the 2009 Brisbane Riverfire fireworks back in September. I uploaded it ages ago to YouTube but forgot to link to it! It was taken whilst driving along the Riverside Expressway from the Captain Cook Bridge in Brisbane &#8211; we hit the Bridge right on 19:00 when the fireworks started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/general/brisbane-riverfire-2009-fireworks-drive-thru-style/</link>
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		<title>Why everybody should always have a notepad with them, always</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article by Clive Thompson from Wired Magazine entitled Why Idling Mind Is Mother of Invention (thanks @janerawson). The super-brief summary of the article is that, contrary to popular belief, daydreaming and procrastination (hereby labeled &#8216;mental drift&#8217;) are actually crucial to solving complex problems and hence, productive.
As somebody who works in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/general/why-everybody-should-always-have-a-notepad-with-them-always/</link>
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		<title>All you need is love, umm, i mean time&#8230; more time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;All you need is love&#8217;
Bugger that, Beatles. That line (as well as bowl-cuts, safari suits and mustard-coloured linoleumed walls) might have cut it back in the 60&#8217;s but fast-forward to the 21st century and I think that you are a lot more likely to hear the muttered line of &#8216;All I need is (more) time&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/general/all-you-need-is-love-umm-i-mean-time-more-time/</link>
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		<title>Michael Shanks interview, MMORPG doom and Stargate Universe trailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wrote about the upcoming MMORPG Stargate Worlds. It will be interesting to see what happens and if the project is dead in the water or not &#8211; further research shows news of funding issues, staff cuts and shoddy &#8216;craftsmanship&#8217;. Even in the below interview with Michael Shanks he refers the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/scifi/michael-shanks-interview-mmorpg-doom-and-stargate-universe-trailer/</link>
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		<title>Pass the open source please and a torrent of sociability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across a number of cool sites and projects over the last week, as well as read a number of really thought provoking articles so I figured that I would filter for the best (in my mind) and put them up here.
1. Hexagon.cc

A torrent search engine / tracker site that has a definite social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/internet/pass-the-open-source-please-and-a-torrent-of-sociability/</link>
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		<title>Linux (and OSX) commands for working with FASTA files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When working with the genomics or molecular marker side of BIoinformatics, Bioinformaticians are faced (very) often with DNA (or RNA) sequence files in FASTA format. FASTA files can store a single sequence, or multiple sequences. To be able to access individual sequences or measure some metric of the sequence data, such as length, some form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/bioinformatics/linux-and-osx-commands-for-working-with-fasta-files/</link>
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		<title>Cognicology re-revamp, wireframes and smashing books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been pretty hectic with the PhD and Cognicology.com this month: I&#8217;m trying to wrangle a trip over to the states in January for a conference related to my PhD, which has taken a fair amount of my time. It is amazing the loops you need to jump through to organise this sort of thing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisduran.eu/projects/cognicology-re-revamp-wireframes-and-smashing-books/</link>
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