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This fall, I applied for some 15 faculty openings in chemistry departments around the country. The number is, I think, perhaps on the higher side, but still fairly typical–to give you some idea, one professor I know claimed to have given 12 interviews when he applied for positions. I had a number of reasons to [...]

Well, there’s good news and bad news for my running fitness in 2005 so far.

One of the reasons that I enjoy science is the open exchange of ideas. It’s hardly the only benefit, nor is it exclusive to science. But our modern foundation of science relies on publication and discussion of results–and in turn others build upon what has come before.

It was not always this way. Years ago, [...]

Dr. Peter Murray-Rust’s group at Cambridge recently kicked off their so-called “World Wide Molecular Matrix,” or more appropriately, a set of open source web services for chemistry.

It’s always fashionable to write about the death of a subject or idea. The current rage seems to be to predict the death of chemistry.

Even the American Chemical Society in their weekly journal Chemical & Engineering News is questioning the future of chemistry as an independent discipline, and articles around the web showcase [...]

Update 2005-03-22: There is a new release, version 0.32.

This WordPress plugin allows posting images and links to your Gallery albums and photos.

For more information, see the information posted about release 0.1.

Improvements/fixes in this version:

Fixed the typo bug discovered by Cloudsoup for <img> class attributes. Adds support for up2date plugin notification (which checks every 10 days).
Allows links [...]