You might be a gardening geek on a rainy day if… You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so you can continue weeding and planting, section by section, in the rain, in the garden.
To carry on with Chemjobber’s Favorite Things list (thanks, btw. Now I can’t get that silly Dove commercial out of my head), here’ s my list of some of my favorite things about chemistry Clickable Sharpies Vanillin TLC stain Pericyclic reactions Dump-and-Stir reactions A set of nested beakers (my set goes from 600 mL down to 10 mL) Review articles PhD comics Short paths (with or without the cow receiver) Playing with liquid nitrogen Dry ice bowling (a lab Olympic event, where you roll a pie…
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A Few of My Favorite (Chemistry) Things
There’s a remarkable article by Mike Duff in this month’s CERN Courier, arguing the case that string theory does too have important applications: in Quantum Information Theory. The claim seems to be that since the same algebraic structures appear in black-hole entropy calculations in string theory and in the analysis of certain cases of the entanglement of qubits, this provides an application of string theory to Quantum Information theory
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Applying String Theory to Quantum Information Theory
This is going to be a quick welcome to Deborah Blum (@deborahblum) who has just moved her blog, Speakeasy Science, to ScienceBlogs. Why quick? Because I am only 22 pages away from finishing her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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What’s my poison? Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author, professor Deborah Blum
Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called “My Life as a Pancreas” by Priscilla Call Essert: Someone had sent it to me for review a while back, and I
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My (Most Excellent) Life as a Pancreas
It’s difficult to read any technical journal or website today without finding stories on cloud computing. In an effort to reduce costs and network complexity, some organizations are opting to move at least some software or services to the cloud.
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Top 10 New Features in Exchange Server 2010
I recently came across a new blog that promotes the virtues of cooking with kids. I was even more thrilled to find out that the lovely ladies who write there are from the San Francisco Bay Area, like me! Luckily for me, they offered to share this fantastic post about their experience making dumplings with
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Dumpling Yum
At the end of April I did a free Etsy workshop at the eLoft in Marquette, Michigan. I had a great turnout, about 15-20 people came! A local jewelry maker, Egret Earrings has written a little post about the free workshop! Here is a screen shot from her blog.
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Featured on Egret Earrings Blog!
There are dozens of online invoicing tools out there that can help freelancers and businesses quickly generate invoices for their clients – some of these apps can even track the status of payments made against the invoice. The workflow is nearly paperless – you create an invoice on the computer and the system will send it to your client via email. Now this works just fine in most cases but sometimes you may have customers who haven’t gone digital yet
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Send Printed Invoices through the Post with Zoho
This week, Microsoft is launching the latest version of its Office suite. These 3 year release cycles seem alien to us given that our apps are typically updated at least once a month. In case you are considering upgrading to Office 2010, you might want to give online alternatives a try.
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The Next Phase in the Evolution of Office Suites
Some of you reading this blog right now are huge successful affiliates. To you, affiliate marketing is like breathing, you just wake up in the morning and do it. But for everyone else, breaking into affiliate marketing can seem like the hardest thing they have ever done
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What If Affiliate Marketing Was Easy?
When the recent cloud of volcanic ash cruelly snatched my vacation away from me, not only was I miffed I wouldn’t be heading across the ocean (and let me tell you, there’s nothing more depressing than unpacking a non-used swimsuit, sandals, and sunscreen out of a suitcase), but I was sad I would be missing dinner with Yotam Ottolenghi at his restaurant, Ottolenghi . I’d written him a fan letter, and after agreeing to a psychiatric evaluation, and a pass through a metal detector, he consented to have dinner with me.
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Ottolenghi’s Fried Beans with Sorrel, Feta & Sumac
“Have you ever found yourself in the kitchen wanting to make something new and exciting but not knowing where to start? Are you interested in mixing things up? Look no further! Leslie Ceriers book, Going Wild in the Kitchen, will easily help you add more spice to your life!” www.lesliecerier.com Leslie will take you on a unique ride, introducing a variety of ingredients to make part of your culinary repertoire.
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Christina Pirello reviews Going Wild in the Kitchen by Leslie Cerier
I spent yesterday outside gardening in the garden, and only took one picture showing Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’ with bits of Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum, growing with it. The snow-in-summer is the one with the grayish-green narrow leaves. In the lower center are the tips of the maroon leaves of Hecheura x villosa ‘Mocha’ (more on that later).
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Garden Design Update: Making Plant Choices
Timothy Ferris, in The Science of Liberty: In 1900 there was not a single liberal democracy in the world (since none yet had universal suffrage); by 1950 there were twenty-two. Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has an ongoing series of posts in which he highlights “good sentences.” At first the conceit bugged me a bit, as how good can a single sentence be? It’s not like you have space to develop a sensible argument or anything.
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Good Sentences | Cosmic Variance
As much as we rely on electronic communications these days, a lot of business still gets done through the regular, postal mail. You know, the one where you actually move physical stuff around the physical world. So, whether your customers prefer to get printed invoices, or they just can’t accept electronic ones for various reasons, Zoho Invoice can still help you manage your invoices and get paid faster
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Introducing zPost: From the Web, Through the (Postal) Mail with Zoho Invoice
While you can use images of virtually any size as backgrounds for your mobile phone or your computer desktop, it’s always a good idea to download wallpapers that exactly match the screen resolution as then the screen won’t cut any parts of you beautiful wallpaper nor the image will be stretched to fit the screen.
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Find Perfect-Sized Wallpapers for your Mobile and Desktop with Bing
This morning I have a final exam in my Legal Research and Writing course. I’m as prepared as I’m going to be, which means that I’m either going to do fine or I’m toast.
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No more pencils, almost
Warringah Council are using Bang the Table’s online engagement platform EngagementHQ to help to plan for the future of Warringah Oval – the home of the Manly Sea Eagles NRL team. Warringah Council owns and manages Brookvale Park, which includes Brookvale Oval. ‘Brookie’ needs a cash injection for major capital renewal works if it is to continue as the home of the Manly Sea Eagles in the long term.
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EngagementHQ helping to determine the future of Brookvale Oval – home of the Manly Sea Eagles
Warringah Council are using Bang the Table’s online engagement platform EngagementHQ to help to plan for the future of Warringah Oval – the home of the Manly Sea Eagles NRL team. Warringah Council owns and manages Brookvale Park, which includes Brookvale Oval
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EngagementHQ helping to determine the future of Brookvale Oval – home of the Manly Sea Eagles