Data to Desktop

Aug 9th 2007eyes & nerd alert

One of the more interesting things to do with data – at least certain types of data – is to look at it. As the “Small World” Photomicrography competition puts it, “…a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension [...]

The non-death of non-existent chickens

Oct 20th 2006nerd alert

And the winner for most amusing article in this month’s issue of Applied Spectroscopy — a journal not

Technique of the Week: Ion Mobility

Nov 5th 2004nerd alert

Yesterday’s seminar (

Slow end to a long week

Sep 24th 2004nerd alert

9-11: Stare at a math-heavy paper[1] on generalized 2D correlation stuff, trying to decide if I really really need to