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I just checked. I have 8 copies of my thesis:

1. laptop
2. home desktop + (raid backup drive)
   
3. bioinformatics server + (raid backup drive)
4. expresso server
   
5. tape backup
6. paper copy

I think I need to burn a few CDs and send to friends in distant locations ... just to be safe.

So, I try not to point people to random links these days that they could find on their own through boing boing, del.icio.us, or a multitude of blogs. I'd rather contribute my own content, not just re-link to other people's content. Nevertheless, I'm going to add this link to My Sister, Sarah Grothaus' Art Gallery Website. I put the technology for the site together, but she keeps it continually updated with photographs of her work. It runs on movable type for the "recent news" on the front page, and has a backend of Gallery for the photo gallery. Interesting fusion of technologies in my humble opinion.

For the 2.3 people that still read this thing, I will be:

• graduating in may
• finishing my thesis on cancer classification through microarrays in the next 2.5 weeks
  
• taking a job with google
• travelling to san francisco
• on a road trip
• in a brand new toyota prius
• in late june/early july
• no longer working on Tag-Board, not even on the side

Project I want to complete someday:

- Get a toyota prius
- Get a bluetooth phone that can connect to internet
- Install a computer inside the prius that connects to the touchsreen display
- Install linux on computer
- Connect GPS card to computer
- Have linux connect to phone, download google maps at varying resolutions for areas near my car.
- Display car in navigation system using google maps (both satellite and road)
- Software connects to phone again 30 minutes later as my car moves nearer the edge of the currently stored maps, so that I never notice the fact that I can only see a small portion of the maps at a time.

For those who are interested in what I am actually working on for long hours of the night here at Viginia Tech, you should read this slightly old popular science Wired article: The End of Cancer (As we Know it).

It explains things in laymens terms better than I can, and is remarkably accurate and information rich at the same time. For those of you not interested in what I'm working on, you should read it anyway - its an interesting article.

I added 2 more photos to the lineup for the top of the page. They are still being included randomly, so if you don't see any new ones, just refresh a few times. There are 5 total photos now, the 2 new ones are from my road trip last summer and the seattle bay area when I was interviewing out with Microsoft and Amazon.

Interesting'ish new project. I was getting tired of keeping myself organized on paper scratch notes, so I moved to todo lists on a computer. Worked well, except that it is only on one computer. I use about 3 in a normal day, more on strange days. Besides, the todo list software that I could find sucked ass. So, I put up a new todo list project that runs online, one can use it as long as you have an internet connection. It also has a bunch of neat features:

1) The list is a tree instead of a flat list, with categories and subcategories and subsubcategories ad infinum.
2) Tasks can be dependent on other tasks - I don't have to be bothered with seeing task B on the list until task A is done if I don't want to.
3) Tasks can be time-dependant - I don't want to see a task that I can't work on yet, show it to me at a certain date.
4) Some tasks repeat regularly like changing oil in my car - I can set these up so that after it is completed, a new task is put in place with a popup time X days in advance, repeated until I choose to stop it.

DoMoreList.com

It's like a magic eye, only it's a protein. To be specific, it is Bacteriorhodopsin.