Jasp's Blog

The Twenty Twelve Photography project is still underway, and can be followed on flickr. The uploaded files are lagging behind a bit, but so far I have only forgotten a day, and even then I remembered only 53 minutes too late.
The photo here is fairly atypical, with the collection being of more interest than the [...]

In sorting through old CDs during a cleanout before a move, I discovered some old backups. The one from 2001 contained A-level coursework, and a ‘My Music’ folder of two albums. (Bless) The 2003 disc contained a txt file with the following:
TODAY I AM GOING TO EAT A PEACH. NOT A VERY BIG PEACH MIND [...]

I’m sorry that I haven’t been blogging recently, but unfortunately life is currently somewhat busy. I’m in the final three months of my PhD, and stress levels are rising. This has not been helped by having to arrange a move, as I’ll have to leave my current flat at the end of July. In Edinburgh [...]

On Saturday I attended my first wedding of the year. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, and the whole thing went off seemingly without a hitch to the various guests assembled. Well, apart from the bride’s car breaking down, but what would life be if it couldn’t mimic a sitcom every once in a while. But [...]

Sitting with a pipette here within my lab
Waiting for the cells to grow.
In perfect isolation here upon the plate
Waiting for the cells to grow.
However much work you put in, and however hard you plan your experiments, there will always be the occasion when every experiment you have running hits down-time at the same point. Whether [...]

A few thoughts this week, mainly as none of them were substantial enough for a full blog post.
Swine Flu
Jumping in first on the topic which is most likely to generate general interest, I’d once more like to point people at the post I wrote covering the H5N1 virus. Anton Vowl, over at ‘The Enemies of [...]

The end of my PhD is rapidly approaching, and suddenly it no longer seems some distant event. By the time Christmas comes around I very much hope to be out of the lab, and to have a good chunk of my thesis written up. However all of this means getting the lab work finished, or [...]

This pre-poster post will probably be followed by a post poster post, post poster. I’ll keep you posted.
Well its not a post exactly, but I will shortly be presenting a poster at the Rubicon Conference in Lisbon. While this is my third European conference, it is the first at which I’ve had a chance to [...]

One of the problems with having grown up on-line is that you have your history packaged away and archived across the internet. If you know what took look for on Google Groups, you can find comments I made almost twelve years ago back in 1997. I was thirteen at the time, naive, and at times [...]

Phone, iRiver, DS, Wind; the number of pieces of technology I travel with is a bit silly, or would be if I didn’t forget to pack things. Yesterday I synched my iRiver, downloaded a couple of podcasts, and got it charged up. I then left it on my desk. Even more annoying I also left [...]