Bloody Fingers

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Starting in the middle My work involves doing research in atmospheric science.

Back story For longer than I can remember I have adopted the position that 1) notes should be in ASCII: universal, future-proof, small files and 2) markdown syntax should provide more than enough formatting for notes.

As history suggests, this blog might never be updated again.

dock preferences screenshot Another thing I haven’t seen (yet) mentioned anywhere… In the last snow leopard build (10a394), the new “dock+expose” feature is enabled, and a new related option has appeared in the Dock preferences (see screenshot above).

I haven’t seen this reported anywhere, and it’s not really surprising since it will affect only a minority of Mac users, but here goes: In Snow Leopard, french locale, the “Movies” folder will be called Vidéos.

Anonymous.

For those who just ditched Matlab for another scientific package and miss the inpolygon function, I suggest taking a look at the Shapely package.

For this first post in a long, long time, why not explain another weird problem I had with the iMac ?

A new beta 2 of the Enthought Python Distribution has been released.