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  1. Some tips on how to hire a programmer. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring
  2. Smart packing: the top of bottle get into upper layer to save space. http://twitpic.com/rhkrp
  3. Opened an account at genomeweb.com & can access their premier journals, such as Bioinform for free. It seems like a promotion, but not sure.
  4. Turkey Genome Sequencing fund is just in time for Thanksgiving. http://twurl.nl/2mq7fm
  5. Only 4 supercomputers in TOP500 are for life sciences. HP has more than IBM does. Although most top ones are IBM. http://twurl.nl/nbtfrc
  6. @fionabrinkman Good to know Santa's addr in Canada. It took me some time yesterday to "convince" my daughter Santa has a real address
  7. I admire his family and technology too. RT @jensmccabe: Houben's 23-year conscious "coma" http://twurl.nl/fkorhy
  8. I like HHMI model too. Gates foundation still funds projects. RT @moorejh: Wellcome Trust to fund people not projects. http://is.gd/53rbP
  9. Received bad news on my NIH Shared Instrument Grant application for a high end storage. Critics will be in ~8 weeks. It is a competitive yr.
  10. Swype: a new way of typing on touch-screen that is competing with iPhone http://twurl.nl/kplq6l
  11. ~150,000 Children/yr write to Santa through US Postal Service at: 1 Santa Claus Lane, North Pole, AK 99705 and get a reply from volunteers.
  12. A potential cloud computer testbed for research. https://opencirrus.org/
  13. Eric Green: National Human Genome Research Institute 3.0 = disease related work+translational opportunities. http://twurl.nl/cuu72k
  14. Layoffs at 23andme (http://twurl.nl/leqxnn) and bankrupt filed by deCode. Personal Genomics is too early to be commercially viable?
  15. June 30, 2009 There is about 900 next generation sequencers total. http://twurl.nl/jebek3
  16. A nice map about the location of next generation sequencers, although it is not complete. http://twurl.nl/puvhem
  17. Can human mRNA-seq data be used to figure ancestral original? Such as it is Causation, Asian or Africa American?
  18. Just received Phil Green's beta next_Phred/phaser. It is claimed being able to call 30-50% more sequences than Illumina pipeline. Will see.
  19. Two tools to find repeats recommended by Aaron Darling seem interesting: ProcrastAligner and Piler by Bob Edgar.
  20. Nancy King's concert tonight:You cannot create yourself, because it has already been done. But you can compose yourself. It is kind of fun.