Twitter for Week of 25 May 2008
These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 25 May 2008. Follow me at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling.
- 2008-05-25: I finished “The Mind Readers”. The mystery wasn’t mysterious, the science fiction wasn’t science, and Albert Campion wasn’t interesting.
- 2008-05-25: Like many other science geeks, I’m watching coverage of the Mars Phoenix lander…. Only 33 minutes until the first signal will be received.
- 2008-05-25: @MarsPhoenix Congratulations on a successful landing!
- 2008-05-26: On Sunday, June 1, the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting begins here in Boston. Lots of good sessions, including genomics.
- 2008-05-27: Software I use daily: Circus Ponies Notebook. http://www.circusponies.com/.
- 2008-05-28: Does anyone get excited over getting a new Dell Latitude laptop computer? The pedestrian design of Dell laptops bores me.
- 2008-05-28: Today I learned that it is impossible to do bioinformatics when the network is down. I hope the new card for our router arrives tomorrow.
- 2008-05-29: Mac OS X 10.5.3 update for my six-month old MacBook Pro: An enormous download (420 MB) and three reboots. Everything is fine so far.
- 2008-05-29: New 21st-centry prize for science: The Kavli prize (http://www.kavliprize.no/), awarded in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.
- 2008-05-29: Congratulations, California, on legalizing same sex marriage. Signed — a proud resident of Massachusetts, where same sex marriage is legal.
- 2008-05-30: John Gruber explained Spaces in Mac OS X 10.5.3 (http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/spaces). Now I’m ready to use this feature.
- 2008-05-31: 90% of my computer activity is work-related, so I don’t take much time to have fun. But today I set up Spaces and played with Photo Booth.
- 2008-05-31: I played more on my MacBook today. GarageBand is a lot of fun. Now I want to buy a USB keyboard. But tomorrow it’s back to serious work.
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