Synthetic Living Cell: A major milestone

A post, a little bit unusual to what I am used to blog about, but still relevant and fascinating to write about.

Scientists have announced a breakthrough in “artificial life”. More specifically, they have succeeded in copying an existing bacterial genome and used it to create a “synthetic cell”. Applications are endless. Just a few very apparent . . . → Read More: Synthetic Living Cell: A major milestone

Best wishes for 2008!!!

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Design & Content…

Design is very important in any blog or website. However the greatest role in a blog’s / website’s success comes from the content itself. I ‘ve seen really awful blogs & websites designs having a large number of loyal readers because of good quality content. What do you think on the subject? Do you agree . . . → Read More: Design & Content…

Creative Commons license

I’ve just added a Creative Commons License in my blog. You are free to share and remix this blog’s contents (copy, distribute, adapt and make derivatives) provided that you attribute the work to me and you share alike (in case of devivatives, transformations of this work, etc.). If you want to find more information click on . . . → Read More: Creative Commons license

Comment Moderation

Fortunately WordPress has many detailed options about commenting and comments moderation. I want real comments to be shown immediately without me approving them while comments that have certain characteristics which make them resembling spam, to be held for moderation. With WordPress I have complete control of these procedures and it protects my blog from 2-5 spam . . . → Read More: Comment Moderation

Free hard Drive…

How would you like an extra 4,95 GB hard disk? You can download Gmail Drive shell extension (here) and have an additional 4,95 GB to use. Each file is stored in the inbox with the subject “GMAILFS: /” (there is one space between : and /). You can easily find all your files with a search . . . → Read More: Free hard Drive…

FreeRice

FreeRice is a great project that can help you improve your english and at the same time help in the fight against poverty and hunger. For each word you get right, the FreeRice donate 10 grains of rice through United Nations. The revenue, that enables donations, comes from small advertising banners on the bottom of the . . . → Read More: FreeRice

SnapShots

I have problem with snapshots… It doesn’t function in my blog! It wasn’t functioning yesterday too. I spent many hours to fix it and I just saw that today it doesn’t work too! It makes me really angry!!!!! I don’t know how to fix this problem! I don’t make any changes in my blog other than . . . → Read More: SnapShots

Blogging Tools

What are the blogging tools you use?

I personally use many tools for enhancing my blog’s functions and capabilities:
Blog Traffic Exchanges: It’s very important that your blog gets some traffic. I use Blogmad and Blogsoldiers mainly. They deliver good results and over time you will acquire some loyal readers.

Technorati: For pinging my blog (so that latest posts . . . → Read More: Blogging Tools

Back to Helium Knowledge

I am thinking of starting again to write articles for Helium Knowledge. I have been idled for many months and haven’t written any articles for so long. That was due to the fact that I was in the Greek army (obliged to serve of course). Now that I am back I think I should start again. . . . → Read More: Back to Helium Knowledge