So how 'green' are you? According to a recent blog post (http://bit.ly/pDhhtg) by the Gmail team it can be upto 80 times more energy efficient by moving to the cloud. Also, using 1 year of Gmail is as energy costly as drinking a bottle of wine. Also watching movies through a streaming service like youtube is using much less energy than having a DVD delivered to your door step.

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Summer at Scheveningen beach and Heidelberg last weekend, just lovely!

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Sequencing costs are dropping so quickly that they're becoming more irrelevant as part of the total costs of you research and thus might be the start of a new era where smart algorithms and compression techniques are more important than ever before.

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According to mirror.me this is a tag cloud describing my Google+ connections, it looks like loads of people are "interested" in all kinds of stuff!

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