M.I.A.

Some regular readers may have noticed the site was off-line for a few days. Basically I forgot to pay my credit card bill, this has now been remedied, so the site is back and so am I. Over the last few months I changed jobs and moved into a new apartment. I don't need to explain the effect this has on one's mental and physical well being but the worst of it is over. Read on for the full story

I am now working a biotech startup in the Hsin Chu Science Park. This is the first and last time you'll see a post mentioning work. Over the last six years nodalpoint has thankfully remained free of advertising and corporate interference. I assure you this will not change. For those of you who are curious, the company I work for is Phalanx Biotech Group. They produce whole genome microarrays, currently mouse and human, at ridiculous scale (1000 arrays per week). I am now in charge of the bioinformatics team, which should be lots of fun, if not lots of hard work.

On an administrative note I plan to turn of anonymous submissions, I realized belatedly that the site was being spamed. Also I apologies for some posts getting caught in the submission queue and thank you to everyone for keeping it interesting during my absence.


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Hey Greg,Good to see you

Hey Greg,
Good to see you back in action :) Wish you the very best in your new position. My external hard disk crashed so the time got used up in data recovery and learning, thus this delay in congratulating you :). Most of the things were backed up in other places too and I could download. Later I could recover the hard disk too, like a magic (I am not able to figure out how it did work), I just rewrote the partition and things worked. Anyways the lesson is, keep back up of things in different places, use things like rsync [ http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ ] if you are on FreeBSD or *nixs and SyncToy [ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0FC1154-C975-4... ] on windows to update the backups. Both of them are free and work great. Since you guys have great Internet connection, I would recommend GDisk [ http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/ ] which converts GMail to free online storage device.
Regards,
Animesh

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Welcome back :)

and best of luck for your new job.


Good to see you back

Chris, welcome back. Looking forward to more posts from you and congratulations on the new job. Having done something similar, I can relate.


Thanks

Although it wasn't me that posted...