[text: ‘pipelines’, photograph of a standard bioinformatics pipeline transforming data from one mess to another]

[text: ‘~/scratch/’, photograph of you desperately trying to pack your data for a programmatic excursion only to find that the airline charges by the bit for hold luggage]

[text: “my first research proposal”, photograph of the front cover of my new fantasy fairytale]

[text: “sun grid engine”, photograph of your jobs won’t be processed today]

[text: ‘samtools view’, photograph of emergency services attending to what’s left of your terminal]

[text: “why is the RAM gone?”, photograph of seriously why is the ram gone?]