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March 17, 2010

Super regeneration, here we go

A new study has found that a specific gene (P21) is directly linked to regenerative properties that you typically find in reptilian creatures, such as salamanders. Apparently, when deactivated, this gene allows mice cells to behave more like stem cells and fully regenerate wounds without leaving any scars. Are (…)
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March 15, 2010

How to beat a nail into a hard wall

This is probably the first useful mass email that my mother sent me in a long, long time :)

In any case, it shows how to put a nail into a really hard wall without ending up bending the nail. I know i had (…)
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March 11, 2010

Other (probably intelligent) wordpress plugins to install

Following up on my post about RAM (or lack of it), i decided to install a proper wordpress plugin to cache most of the stuff in static HTML files. It’s called WP-SuperCache and i’m hoping it’s really super :)

But now i cannot but (…)
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March 10, 2010

Lack of RAM will kill your blog host virtual machine

I know what you are thinking: “Well, duh Pedro, how come you didn’t know that?”.

I’ll explain: Recently i started having some service shortages on my blog. From times to times the CPU usage would just go rooftop and then nginx and apache both stopped serving requests. I am (…)
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February 28, 2010

3 years in Holland

It has been exactly 3 years and 4 months since i set foot on the Netherlands and – as i get ready to leave this place – i can’t help it but thinking about all the things i found, done, and learned while being here. This is my attempt (…)
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