Sunday

Neon went quite well, although I ended up swapping my nice early midnight slot for the 2-3, because some new goth called (IIRC) Vicky had friends who would be gone if she was on that late. I, of course, have no friends (who seemed likely to be leaving that early, anyway) so it didn't matter. I spent most of the night talking to nik_strychnine about military vehicles. Or maybe that was just the most memorable bit.

Keith came round earlier, unexpectedly, and we had a long chat until I flaked out and decided I needed a nap if Neon wasn't going to kill me. kisin and batswing most generously shared their dinner with us, which was extremely welcome - thanks.

Had gone out to the Ault Toll with Sandy, Bobby, Ian, Emma and Peter Saturday night. Friday I went to see Mo, with biscuits and vidos.

Oops.

I guess there must be a story behind this. I'm not entirely sure I want to hear it.

Smiles so far today=34.

EMBL queries (NB : Monstrous ego post)

This is another one that's mainly for my own reference, later CV-building and/or self-aggrandisement.

Prompted by Liam's post, I've been having a quick shufti at the sequence databases - the main EMBL[1] database in particular. All my work from the Sanger's in there, which I think is around 200 database submissions. Time was I had internal access to the tracking databases and could just wave a little homebrewed piece of SQL across them to find out what my running totals were, but those days are long gone now. I'd like to have a list of my finished projects, though, together with figures on what the total coverage was, which organisms and chromosomes they were on, and the like.( Read more . . . or, probably better, don't. )

I'm in danger of turning into Walter Sobchak, so I'll shut up now. Hopefully for a very long time.

Tank Girl was on the screen at Neon, and I got to wondering who Tank Girl's sidekick was played by, as she looked familiar. Naomi Watts, apparently. Who was in Mulholland Drive. Except in TG she's not even vaguely blonde. Or glam.