I started to write this post a long time ago in October; unfortunately before I finished I got hit with the start of teaching. I considered just ditching the post, as it is now so out-of-date and I am not usually a zombie poster. However, in this case, I shall post as a) it helps my mind to move back toward research after so long away and b) it will be my first of 2012, so I can check my makefiles work!

Well, I am pleased to say that we have now released the new version of kcite. It’s been a while in coming — I had the difficult bit of the code working about 5 months ago, but then got caught up in teaching. Kcite is our bibliography manager which enables citations such as this one [cite]10.1371/journal.pone.0012258[/cite], using DOI or PubMed IDs.

It has been a long, long time since my last gig review. As this blog is mostly professional now, this is perhaps not such a bad thing. I did half write a review of Roy Harper and Joanna Newsome in Sept last year, but it never got posted. Don’t think I have been to gig since then. Still onwards.

While I am currently spending a significant amount of my time promoting the idea that blog technology can be, and should be used for serious scientific material, I thought I would make a post of a different and perhaps more traditional vein: that is, a light-weight idea, with no serious research behind it, but Years ago now, I created an Energy Wiki full of daft ideas for making energy. I last revisted this in 2009, with an idea for storing energy at sea. I’d actually forgotten that part of the reason for this was to try out Inkscape, which is part of the reason for this post. I wanted to try a bit of multi-media, that is, a blog post with an image in it. High tech.