July 26th… August approaches. Rob leaves the lab in a mere three days. It’s the beginning of the end as we start planning to take servers offline.
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There’s a new science blog aggregator from the creator of HubMed, called aggademia. It has only just started up, so I can’t really tell you much about it. [...]

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I spent an hour and a half dealing with e-mail, health insurance, taxes, papers, and so on.
Blech.
A lot of it was stuff I’d been putting off, but was in my system. For some reason this morning felt like the right time to do it. Nobody’s here yet. I recently read a suggestion, I think [...]

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My focus this week has to be on my prospectus. I still don’t know whether I’ll have to be at Hopkins by August 24th or September 8th. Hopefully I can get that information this week.
Either way, the prospectus needs to be done before I go, and either way, that means soon.
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So far I’ve managed to [...]

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I realized a little while ago that any money I dumped toward Washington would have a far greater effect than my one-in-several-million vote(s). To that end, I started financially supporting the EFF, and so far they seem to be putting my money to good use. Here’s the latest:

San Francisco - A federal judge has [...]

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I arrived at work this morning to find the AC off. There was a scheduled shutdown last night, which I knew about, but I neglected to apply that knowledge and stay at home this morning.
I’ve spent a little time this morning trying to install Ubuntu Linux on an external drive attached to my PowerBook 17″ [...]

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