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22 Apr 2004
Baa-aaZZZAP!

15:38 Electric screensavers. Distributed sheep. I'd better keep this away from the lab Taff.

22 Apr 2004
Dragon

15:26 I registered at Silver Dragon - they've got the lovely fake Switch ads (which you can get at without registering. Odd).

22 Apr 2004
Googleome

15:07 Googleome (n). In particular, the set of Google hits returned for a single search query, but in the general case, 'any set of Google hits'. Hence 'googleomics', etc.

You saw it here first.

15 Apr 2004
BANG

20:28 I'm worried about Kooij. He seems obsessed with loud bangs.

15 Apr 2004
Wesley!!

20:23 And in other news, the good folk of BibleGateway have made commentaries available. Moreover, they also have some 'classics' by such people as Charles Haddock Sturgeon^W^H^H^H^H^H^H^H. Spurgeon and my all-time third favourite, John Wesley.

15 Apr 2004
Guhnoo Pee Gee

20:14 I had cause to send Andrew an email the other day, and that got me to (re)thinking about PGP. And it turns out that there are some nice tools for integrating GPG with MacOS X. So, joy unconfined. My key IDs are now available in the BioFAQ, if you're interested. Oh look! Key signing from Mail.app!

15 Apr 2004
Nasty hobbittses

20:10 A rather clued individual of our mutual acquaintance, gentle reader, sent me this link. It transpires that there have been some naughty goings on at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (a link to which is in the previous). We all know HR departments are evil, puppy-murdering scumbags, but this is bad. Really bad.

14 Apr 2004
Glenboggle

09:38 Kate is trying to turn me into an alcoholic. If she keeps buying me Glenrothes for my birthday, it shouldn't take long.

14 Apr 2004
2, 4, 6, 8 . . .

09:19 Jimbo is looking in the wrong place (he also needs to get some permalinks sorted out). As any fule kno, the M65 and M66 are north of Manchester, and you don't need a telescope to see them.

14 Apr 2004
April showers

09:03 I like this one. Petrichor. The OED says

A pleasant, distinctive smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions; in quot. 1975, applied to an oily substance obtained from the ground in which this smell was concentrated

and goes on to describe the phenomenon in interesting detail. Apparently, the word was coined in Nature in 1964, and in 1975 CSIROs Melbourne mineral chemistry division discovered that it was not fungi or dead vegetation which produced the smell, but small yellowish-gold oily globules. The globules, nicknamed ������petrichor������ or ������essence of rock������ by the researchers, contained at least 50 different compounds, not unlike a perfume and were absorbed into the ground from the air.

So now you know.

14 Apr 2004
Preciousss

08:53 It'ss my birthday. I'm 35.

So how about a little respect from the peanut gallery?

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