More black news from cycling

Well, it seems Eric Zabel, as well as the current DS of T-Mobile, has admitted using EPO. Another body blow for professional cycling.
See news item here, and no doubt all through the cycling press from later today...

I'm not sure what to make of it, it all seems a bit inevitable. How long until a famous Texan also makes some sort of confession?

Fluidigm (commercial website here) seem to have some interesting new technology for QPCR. To quote their marketing they are "doing for biology and chemistry what integrated circuits have done for computing". Reading through the investor-attracting hyperbole, there does seem to be some cause for optimism though..

Firefox

I sometimes wish I had the competence, or is it time, to be able to use Linux and other esoteric non-Windows programmes, a little like Neil has made a career of (see his blog here, its worth a read). However, in a sort of half-cocked way I end up using Firefox. There are a few problems with it, but it does have some plus points. One of them is the add ons, such as Foxmarks, a small program plus server access that allows book marks made on one computer to be transferred to another.
In the world before Firefox, I used to do this with my iPAQ< creating a mobile favourite. However, the sync for this took ages. This may have been cured now, but in the meantime I'll see if the web-based approach works any better...

Rhythm & Bounce

Some interesting news from the world of the Chemical Brothers... a "free" gig in Trafalgar Square in early September. Register on their site and look through the forum for more information...

First steps

Thought I might enter the wonderful world of blogging, even if it is only to remind myself of stuff I have come across.

Today chatted to geneservice (website here) in an effort to get my group's molecular biology effort under way again.