Richard P Grant
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A bug, a bug, my kingdom for a bug fix.
It appears that if you create a web-log entry, save it, then come back to publish it, it doesn’t appear on the ‘Global Blogs’ list. Maddeningly, this seems to be because it’s published under the original ‘save’ date, not the … Continue reading
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RIP Humph
I know that certain people in this network will be sad to hear that Humphrey Lyttelton has died . He’ll be sadly missed.
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Hear, hear
Just briefly, a post over at Lords of the Blog got me thinking. What do we say when we think a seminar speaker is mad, bad or dog, and don’t want to be rude?
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Reprints, what are they good for?
As we’ve been in the same house for over two years now, we decided that we should move things around a bit (Forces lifestyle, see. Get itchy feet after 18 months). We’ve swapped the girls’ bedrooms over, and now we’re … Continue reading
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Oooh, shiny.
So. The Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (the acronym of which sounds horribly like a town in Norfolk )not only exists (and no, I’m not going to even consider what strange bedfellows this beast is party to) … Continue reading
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Sex and rugs and rock and roll
Steve Matheson links to an extraordinary video . Go see it. Laugh. And then go and look at photographs of beautiful dogs.
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On the Naming of Parts – 2
Continuing a trend (hey, it’s twice; that’s more reproducible than most of my experiments), I had a little chuckle when I read Ligand binding induces a conformational change in ifnar1 that is propagated to its membrane-proximal domain How gorgeous. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Update
bq. Dear all Please note that both the lifts are currently out of action. In case one of them starts to work again, I advise not to use them this evening. SNAFU.
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