Michael OgawaInterview
PhD student, developer (code_swarm)
Adapted from Michael Ogawa's interview on Uses This, published 21 December 2010. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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While my research lab-mates have workstations and 30" monitors, I work on my personal laptop, a 15" Dell XPS M1530 that I got in 2008.
There's a 250 GB external enclosure hard drive on my desk that rarely gets used.
I recently started experimenting with Arduino.
My favorite entertainment hardware is the Ion Drum Rocker I got for my birthday.
Communication
Productivity
And I use Prezi for my presentations.
Browser
I browse the web with Google Chrome.
Notes
MiKTeX, a LaTeX compiler, is always there for when I write papers.
My lab uses a MoinMoin wiki to keep track of stuff.
Coding & Development
Processing is my go-to programming environment when I work with graphics.
I use gVim for other languages and text editing.
Media
Other
I have Windows 7 on the laptop.
I recently started using Gephi for network analysis and visualization.