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Entries from September 2005

Pictures from New Orleans

September 29th, 2005 · No Comments

I’ll let the photos and captions speak for themselves. See my album here.

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Tags: Katrina · Other

Went to (recently flooded) apartment today

September 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Only was able to rescue about 8 things. Amanda, that includes Earl and Euler. All of my analog photos, my grandmas patining (need a little de-molding, those), and some other stuff. So exhausted. Pics and more info tomorrow.

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Tags: Katrina · Other · Travel

My Coffee Exploded

September 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments

This morning, I poured myself a cup of coffee. Shortly thereafter, I left for Waffle House, because we were out of eggs, but that’s another story.
anyway…
When I returned, I knew I had a lukewarm cup of coffee sitting up in my room. Rather than go up, get it, bring it back down, microwave it, and [...]

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Tags: Other

Silicon Nanowires Can Detect Cancer

September 25th, 2005 · No Comments

A new article in Nature Biotechnology (abstract) describes

… highly sensitive, label-free, multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers using silicon-nanowire field-effect devices …

built into arrays. As the article about the paper on medicalnewstoday.com discusses, the sensitivity and accuracy of this technology is supposed to be phenomenal. The potential of this is incredible — [...]

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Tags: Biomedical Engineering · Science

Kubuntu Breezy Badger is Great!

September 23rd, 2005 · 2 Comments

I just finished installing Kubuntu 5.10 (preview), nicknamed “Breezy Badger.”
I’ve been a desktop linux user for about 6 years solid now, and let me just say, this is a breath of fresh air. I also installed it on my PowerBook 15″ last week without ANY TROUBLE AT ALL. Everything has been auto-detected and set up [...]

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