/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2012-01-25T07:12:10-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/01/25/comments_and_everything_else_are_back.php Things are running around here again, after some problems with the comment system. Unfortunately, it looks like everything from about Monday mid-day disappeared into the Great Bit Bucket. That's unfortunate, since I know that there must have been some good... 75400@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2012-01-25T07:12:10-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/01/23/comment_trouble.php I've noticed that comments to today's posts seem to have stopped appearing sometime around noon EST. Rooting around under the hood is ongoing; I'll let everyone know what the outcome is. With any luck, things can be rescued!... 75397@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2012-01-23T18:46:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/01/11/ten_years_of_science_blogging_already.php Today marks my ten-year blogging anniversary. That doesn't seem possible, but there it is: ten years since I sat down and chose a Blogger template and starting typing away into the void. So what have I learned in all that... 75371@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2012-01-11T08:21:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/12/23/media_note.php I'm going to be on a short segment of Marketplace on public radio tonight, talking about cancer therapy. So if your holidays aren't complete without hearing me vent my opinions - and my wife, among others, tells me that hers... 75347@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-12-23T10:46:40-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/12/23/holiday_break.php Posting will be irregular next week for the holidays. I may put up a recipe or two, the way I did last year, and I'll certainly jump in for any big stories that might pop up. Otherwise, I'll be lounging... 75346@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-12-23T10:20:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/12/02/blog_traffic_a_thankyou.php Just wanted to note that November saw nearly 441,000 page views here, for one of the best months ever on the site. Thanks to everyone who stops by! I never thought a blog about drug discovery, smelly chemicals, and other... 75306@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-12-02T13:38:57-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/29/a_things_i_wont_work_with_request.php I've been putting together a revised-and-expanded "Things I Won't Work With" collection, which I hope to release first as a Kindle e-book (with other platforms following close behind). Each entry in the series has been revisited, with more useful (or... 75295@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-11-29T08:08:39-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/24/happy_thanksgiving.php My US readers will mostly be sitting around digesting turkey by now -that's about all I'm doing, although I hope to work up enough energy to take the telescope out into the back yard and show the relatives what's going... 75292@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-11-24T18:56:25-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/23/lab_preparation_key_lime_pie.php Thanksgiving approaches for readers in the US, which means that I turn my attention around here to lab preparations that have already been through trials in my own kitchen. I've posted my procedure for chocolate pecan pie here in the... 75290@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-11-23T07:36:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/09/13/conferencing.php In response to several queries, my talk today went fine, as far as I can tell. I brought in some thoughts from Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation, among other sources, and tried to tie some widely scattered thoughts together. And... 75175@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-09-13T16:07:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/09/10/conference_travel_with_blogging.php I wanted to mention that I'm going to be attending this med-chem symposium in the UK next week, a joint conference of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society for Chemical Industry. I'll be giving a talk on Tuesday,... 75170@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-09-10T10:54:31-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/08/19/day_off_some_links_and_some_ancient_greek.php I'm adding a day to the weekend, so science is going to have to march on without me for a while. I do have a few miscellaneous links to things that have been piling up, though: here's the Chronicle of... 75144@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-08-19T07:54:11-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/08/09/what_an_offer.php The glamorous side of blogging is that you get chances like this, delivered right to your e-mail queue: ". . .I am working with a couple of small-cap biotech companies who have good fundamental technologies, but are not on the... 75122@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-08-09T08:02:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/07/19/back_to_blogging.php Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm back, and back to blogging. As usual, I'm spending some of my morning working out again what it is that I do for a living - although, again as usual, many people... 75088@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-07-19T09:07:21-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/07/11/on_and_off.php I'm going to be traveling this week, so posting will be intermittent. (It's summer, after all). I'll surface now and then, but for the most part, things will be quiet around here. Enjoy the weather, if you have weather to... 75085@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Blog Housekeeping 2011-07-11T12:02:24-05:00