You can watch the inauguration live here:
 http://www.joost.com/Obama_Inauguration_Live

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A substantial portion of the Tasmanian tiger genome was sequenced and published today.  Interesting beast.  It was a marsupial and therefore, much more closely related to the Kangaroo and the Oppossum than to any actual tiger.  It was a predator that was top of the food chain in Tasmania and it went extinct because of […]

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I am being blinded by spam.  So, until I get wordpress updated, you will need to register in order to comment.
Bleedin’ technology.

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So, I see that IBM Cloud Computing and Business Objects (part of SAP) have announced a bunch of jobs in Dublin in the IT research area.
This is a bit of great news in a week of grim news.  The reason this is so fantastic is that these jobs put real knowledge into the country.  Cloud […]

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If I run YouTube on my laptop, the battery runs down very, very quickly.  This is because the medium that YouTube use to deliver their videos is very computationally intensive and consequently, requires the processor to run at full speed and this makes the fan start up and the entire thing requires energy.
My laptop will […]

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It has just been brought to my attention that Google have released Google Health. This is a place where you can upload all of your medical and personal data for reasons I do not understand.
Having the personal details of a significant number of people on the planet would mean that Google has more health […]

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Going to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday to teach on an EMBO course. The temperature right now (early morning in Rio) is 23 degrees C. Time to dust off the flip flops.
Am leaving Ireland on Saturday afternoon late. Flying to Charles de Gaulle airport, just outside Paris. After a very short […]

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Carl Zimmer now has a huge ‘emporium’ of science tattoos. Well worth a look:
http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo
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It struck me recently that I am one of the few people that uses their real name on their blog. The usual reason that is trotted out for using a made-up name is that they “can really say what they mean and feel uninhibited”.
It seems me that this is all very fine that people […]

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