/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2008-08-15T09:46:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/08/15/back.php Just wanted to let people know that yes, I'm still out here. I've returned from vacation, and am dealing with the usual catch-up on everything that's going on. That includes a flood of interesting data at work, thanks to my... 73498@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-08-15T09:46:51-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/08/05/time_off.php I wanted to let people know that starting tomorrow I'll be taking some vacation time. Internet access will be rather limited - I'll be checking my mail some in the evenings, but there will be no posting until the middle... 73485@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-08-05T07:33:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/07/04/happy_fourth_of_july.php This, at least, I have observed in forty-five years: that there are men who search for it [truth], whatever it is, wherever it may lie, patiently, honestly, with due humility, and that there are other men who battle endlessly to... 73419@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-07-04T12:19:56-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/07/01/leaving_comments_a_fix.php I know that a lot of people have been having trouble leaving comments here over the past few weeks, with plenty of "Too Many Comments" error messages coming up. I see from today's comment thread that there's a brute-force fix... 73407@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-07-01T10:11:29-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/05/12/explaining_it_all.php One of the reasons I starting this blog was that many people I met were interested in my job. Very few of them had ever talked to someone who discovered new medicines for a living, and a surprising number of... 73289@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life in the Drug Labs 2008-05-12T07:56:15-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/04/20/quick_note.php Just wanted to let everyone know that there probably won't be a post for Monday - I'm doing some traveling, and will have irregular access to the internet. No doubt huge stories will break during the day, while I'm unable... 73244@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-04-20T20:34:29-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/03/20/anonymity.php I see that “Kyle Finchsigmate” over at The Chem Blog is having some problems maintaining his pseudonymity at his own institution: ” I’m still befuddled why people walk up to me in the hall and talk to me about it.... 73174@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-03-20T07:21:55-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/19/day_off.php No post today - I'm taking an extra day to the long weekend, and going in with my kids to see the lizards at the Museum of Science in Boston. Just wanted to let everyone know that nothing is down,... 73119@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-02-19T09:58:39-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/01/commenting_issues.php As many of your have noticed, there's been some software upheaval behind the scenes here the last few days. Many comments aren't getting through at all, and the others are showing up in the system, but not on the public... 73077@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-02-01T08:57:12-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/01/02/back_on_the_air.php Just wanted everyone to know that we're back in business around here, after a holiday break and some technical problems behind the scenes. Regular blogging resumes tomorrow! In the meantime (and for some time to come, since there's a lot... 72979@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2008-01-02T21:14:55-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/12/20/snow_day.php No real post today - too much snow shoveling, etc. Things will be a bit irregular around here during the holiday season, as usual, and I think that today will kick it off. People have asked me how I'm liking... 72961@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-12-20T10:53:19-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/11/21/synthetic_prep_of_the_day_chocolate_pecan_pie.php I've had several requests, so here we go. This is a slightly modified version of Craig Claiborne's recipe in the New York Times Cookbook. He was a Southerner himself, Claiborne, so he knew his pecan pie: Melt 2 squares (2... 72884@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-11-21T16:32:31-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/11/21/holiday_break.php Well, the drug labs are emptying out today, like many other workplaces around the US. My American readers will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow (and Friday as well, in most cases), and so will I. This will be our first since... 72882@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-11-21T09:40:33-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/11/05/bright_lights_and_applause.php I see that this blog is getting creamed in the Weblog Awards voting, which is similar to what happened last year. Pharyngula and Bad Astronomy are once again fighting it out for supremacy, this year joined by the fans of... 72838@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-11-05T09:31:19-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/09/blogroll_update.php For those of you who were taking the day off yesterday, there's a Nobel speculation post just below this one. Today, it's time for a long-overdue blogroll update. We have the In Vivo Blog to lead things off, and Away... 72708@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2007-10-09T07:00:00-05:00