Cellcraft

I recently heard about a upcoming computer game called Cellcraft. The website isn’t updated much, but you can check it out at http://www.cellcraftgame.com/. It’s being made somewhere in North Carolina, but details on the web site are scarce. Anyway, the point of the project is to use a computer game to teach cell biology. This [...]

How search engines are destroying the internet

Back in the day, the internet was built to deliver information to people. These days, it seems like I come across more and more pages that were built to deliver information to robots. Because of the new advertising supremacy of the search engine market (who uses phone books anymore, anyway?), it makes sense that there [...]

Dell Latitude D630 vs Lenovo Thinkpad T61

The Dell Latitude D630 and the Lenovo Thinkpad T61 are of comparable class, and so many have asked the question of which one is better. I did a lot of research on the two of them and finally came to the conclusion to get the D630, mainly for 1 reason: battery life.
Here I will summarize [...]

Installing Ubuntu Linux on a Dell Latitude D630

I recently bought a new laptop from Dell. After some difficult option considering, I decided on the Latitude D630 over Lenovo’s T61 Thinkpad. Mostly it came down to the Dell having considerably better battery power.
The D630 came with Windows Vista Basic on it, but I prefer Ubuntu. However, I didn’t want to completely abandon Windows, [...]