Jasp’s Blog

Fopp was probably my favourite high-street store, and I was saddened to here that the company has gone into administration. I was first introduced to the company in Cambridge, where I walked past the store pretty much every day, both on my way into lectures, whilst heading to Sainsbury’s or into town in general. On [...]

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A few hours!? But, but… that means I’ll actually have to work!

I stopped working at Alldays over five years ago now and yet I still remember the barcode for a Creme Egg. Its probably some secret code amongst past cashiers, see who has served their time behind the till of a convenience store.

Due to excessive comment spam from a particular IP address (81.95.146.227) I have since blocked this IP from accessing my servers and have also contacted their host. Fortunately this appears to be a server, rather than a zombie system, so I don’t think I’ve blocked any genuine users.

More news from the lab and this time its me ranting about the behaviour of my cells.
When investigating the function of a particular gene one tactic geneticists have availible to them is to break the gene and see what happens. One way of achieving this is to ‘knock it out,’ to entirely remove the gene [...]