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  1. FFS! What the hell has 'structure and functio of the ribosome' got to do with chemistry? Bastard Nobel committee. Shoulda been Suzuki... 3:16 AM Oct 7th from Echofon
  2. Is it just me, or is Wiley borking all doi requests? I can't access papers unless I go via the specific issue... 6:18 AM Sep 14th from Twitter Tools
  3. @ask_mad_sci How does a polariser on my camera work? Why does it block reflections on water? 7:48 AM Sep 6th from web
  4. Can one really have too much aparatus? I never seem to have enough clamps, RBFs, NMR tubes, large stirrer bars, pippette teats, deskspace... 4:51 AM Sep 1st from Echofon
  5. Is there anything more colourful in the lab than sodium? I'm making some NaNp just now, and it's gorgeous! Blue/Green/Yellow/shiny... 6:52 AM Jul 8th from Twitter Tools
  6. Back2back papers from KCN in ACIEE; I'm on the case, but I've still got brain-hurt from the Himandrine post yesterday. Damn 3D... 7:46 AM Jun 29th from Echofon
  7. It's Baran time again - JACS ASAP... Post coming in a day or two, as I'm going out for dinner. Tapas, I believe... 2:15 AM Jun 16th from Echofon
  8. How weird is following Process chemistry routes? This is the largest scale I've every worked on, and it's 1/10th of the published scale! 3:54 AM Jun 13th from web
  9. Bastard frackin' tube drivers. £35k for driving a choo-choo? Hah! I can't believe London puts up with this nonsense. Vive la Révolution! 12:07 AM Jun 10th from Echofon
  10. How much do you trust your automated chromatography? 15 steps in? Do you watch it, sweating, or do you go for coffee? 2:39 PM Jun 2nd from Twitter Tools
  11. New review article on protecting-group free synthesis by Baran in Nature: Chemistry. doi:10.1038/nchem.216 8:04 AM Jun 2nd from web
  12. Back in the UK, and the lab (what's in that RBF...?). Google Reader says I have 419 unread items. I guess I know what I'm doing today... 12:59 AM May 28th from Echofon
  13. Ah, the joy of Swiss public transport. Three transfers and not one second of a delay. And I'm nearly in the snow! 3:02 AM May 22nd from Echofon
  14. Holiday time! No blogging for a week, as I'm off to Zurich today, and then Geneva over the weekend. Please feed both the blog and cat... 12:55 AM May 21st from Twitter Tools
  15. There's nothing quite like freebies from suppliers, but this is something special, sent by Acesys in China! http://twitpic.com/5f60r 4:18 AM May 18th from Echofon
  16. Argh, 24h with no Internet! Virgin media had better be busy with the cables. Blog post as soon as they plug me back in again... 6:48 AM May 16th from Echofon
  17. Four columns, and in, and I *finally* managed to get rid of that phosphine shit... Seriously - you young academics - sort it out! 8:10 AM May 15th from Twitter Tools
  18. Is there anything worse to get rid-off than a heap of bloody PPh3 and PPh3O in your product? Argh, it's every frakin' fraction... 2:22 AM May 13th from Echofon
  19. Ah, Friday's green stuff is now Monday's brown stuff. Product! Spectroscopy of the eye is a wonderful analytical technique! 2:10 AM May 11th from Echofon
  20. Damn it, I hate it when I think about over-the-weekend reactions on a Sunday... But black crud on a Monday morning really makes me angry! 12:39 PM May 10th from web