I want to tell you about how three different services (along with my own PHPMyGTD application) and my phone have changed the way I handle my appointments and reminders.

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I have written before about the usefulness of command-line scripting in computational science.
Today, while looking for some information on various file test operators in bash (e.g. to check whether a file or directory exists), I found this amazing guide. As the author puts it,

This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses [...]

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If you are not familiar with screen (and you use the UNIX command line regularly), you are missing out. I’ve added a new command-line tools section to my tools page. The screen bit, with a link to a good tutorial, is here.

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I recently discovered an interesting piece of open-source software, the CESE single-cell simulator. It’s based on Java and runs on a number of platforms.
The point of this simulator is strictly to run single-cell electrophysiological models. It comes with a few of the staples in the field (like the Luo-Rudy dynamic model), and you can [...]

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Last night, just as I was falling asleep, I heard my phone ring out a text message tone. (Incidentally, it’s this sound, a customized version of one found on the Monty Python website. It can be startling.)
I leaned over to look at it. The head node from the cluster was checking in to let me [...]

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