Scratching my head trying to think of something interesting to write about bioinformatics, usually I just stare into the middle distance instead. This is what I do most weekend in the Starbucks near my flat.
Starting a blog on bioinformatics seemed like a good idea at the time, I liked reading other people’s, so why not start my own. However writing a blog takes more of my time than I thought it would, and the number of posts I write has slipped from two a week, to two a month. My motivation decreases as the amount of work, and therefore stress, in my PhD increases. What keeps me writing is a mixture of pride, the vain hope that one day I might be invited to SciFoo, and perhaps having a blog might help me get a job after I graduate. Of course, an interest in the ever changing field of bioinformatics is useful too.
But anyway, if you’re still reading this, and not buying cheap herbal Viagra, then I’d like to think that this blog is my contribution to best practices in bioinformatics. The field is after all a new one, thirty years perhaps, so there’s still plenty of milling about going on.
Creative Commons
The lovely photo used in this post is one of my favorites, and taken from Johan Larsson on flickr and used under a creative commons licence.
February 26th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
You totally rock and I love you to death - not that wierd kind of Kentucky brother-sister love though!!
You should come here and give a lecture.
Keep blogging,
H
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Hey, amazing stuff!
keep up the good work
zo
March 4th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Regards from Barcelona.
March 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
this is probably the first time i have a real look to it.
Amazing!
April 13th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Have no idea what you are talking about! But congratulations on your website.
Love the other sister
HB
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
Hi,
I have to documents which could be of interest for you,
if you want to blog about them:
- http://www.citeulike.org/pipermail/citeulike-discuss/2007-May/000961.html
July 9th, 2007 at 9:03 am
When I bumped onto your blog, I was impressed by the good choice of subjects and how they’ve been worked out. I’ve seen some blogs, and this one should be essential reading to quite some people I know…
Keep posting!
July 9th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Thanks for the compliment Jan. I’ve enjoyed reading your new blogs also, especially the post on using ruby for databases. I’m a big fan of everything database related for bioinformatics.