I was having a look for graphical file difference viewers in order to get a quick view of the differences between two LaTeX files. One of the things I was looking for was a tool that could handle changed inversions or rearrangments, places where the text has changed both in content and position within the […]

Dr. Mikko Karttunen, from the University of Western Ontario, will be speaking at McMaster tomorrow in the Physics and Astronomy seminar. He worked on a recent paper titled Microscopic Mechanism for Cold Denaturation in which they used computer simulations to determine that the highly ordered structure of water at subzero temperatures caused protein denaturation because […]

Sea Ice Report — Summary of 2009 Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Outlook The amount of sea ice in the Arctic grows and shrinks every year as the seasons change. The largest extent is in late winter, after which it melts throughout the summer. The minimum annual sea ice extent generally occurs in mid-September. This year (2009) […]

THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL, UNPUBLISHED SOFTWARE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I’ve written a free, open source script for ImageJ (free, open source) to count viruses (or bacteria, but not both at the same time) automatically from JPEG image files. If you have TIFFs you can batch convert them to JPEG using ImageMagick (free, open source) […]

I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation on September 9, 2009, and am now wrapping up some edits before I submit the final thesis! I broadcast the talk live on ustream — I even had a question from the virtual audience! (thanks John). A PDF copy of my talk is available here. The submitted thesis is […]