Terry Jones

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Digital camera found in Barcelona. Do you know these girls?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted under barcelona, other. | 11 Comments »

We found a digital camera down in Barceloneta this afternoon. Here are a couple of the images on it. Do you know these girls? The menu on the camera is in German. You ... Read more..

Paper on the global spread of influenza published in Science

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted under me, other. | 4 Comments »

I spent Sept. 2004 to Sept. 2007 as a postdoc in the Zoology Department at the University of Cambridge. We did research into influenza virus using a technique we called ... Read more..

Could someone please give Natalie Jeremijenko a MacArthur grant?

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted under other. | Comments Off on Could someone please give Natalie Jeremijenko a MacArthur grant?

Could someone please give Natalie Jeremijenko a MacArthur "genius" Grant? Thank you. I'm not in charge of these things, obviously. If I were though, I'd be hoping to see Natalie nominated so ... Read more..

The trouble with bitter

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted under politics. | 8 Comments »

When I heard that Obama had described people in small US towns as being bitter I immediately thought it was an unfortunate word choice and that it was probably something ... Read more..

Everything you think you know is wrong

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted under other, tech. | 2 Comments »

I'm often surprised at how confident people are about their knowledge of the world. Looking at the history of thought and of science, you quickly see that it's strewn with ... Read more..

Individuality, transparency, and the cult of impersonality

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted under companies. | 3 Comments »

I've been talking to people about raising money for Fluidinfo over the last 5 months. Along the way I've had plenty of time to reflect on the process. I have ... Read more..

A curiously empty space in the heart of Manhattan

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted under other, travel. | 4 Comments »

I was taken to lunch at the New York Yacht Club today by Ted Carroll of Noson Lawen Partners. By some miracle I happened to be dressed well enough to ... Read more..

Dare to try sushi!

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted under barcelona. | 4 Comments »

Here's a poster at a food stand at the airport in Barcelona. This says volumes about the Spanish palette. It's at the airport - in departures, where the truly adventurous might ... Read more..

Finishing Orwell’s Essays, Journalism and Letters

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted under books. | 7 Comments »

I've just finished the final volume of George Orwell's Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (that link is to volume 1). I don't have anything much to say, but thought I'd include ... Read more..

The unmistakable screams of the freshly robbed

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted under barcelona, me. | 10 Comments »

I was just awakened, at 1:30am, by a series of prolonged and heartbreaking female screams. Beyond any doubt, a bag snatching. I suppose there are many reasons one might scream in ... Read more..

Twitter dynamics: unfollowing guykawasaki, Scobleizer and cameronreilly

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted under tech, twitter. | 16 Comments »

I've only got so much time a day to read blogs, Twitters, etc. With blogs I find that I tend to try to keep up with those that post at a ... Read more..

iPod vending machine

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted under tech, travel. | 3 Comments »

Here's an iPod vending machine I just passed on Concourse A in the Atlanta airport. It also offers a variety of other audio components, like headphones from Harman Kardon and ... Read more..

Another thought on Mahalo

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted under companies. | 4 Comments »

Back in November I wrote some comments on Mahalo in an article titled The Mahalo-Wikipedia-Google love triangle. I just read Jason's comment that they're staying up late to make a Mahalo ... Read more..

Lucky Streak

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted under me, other. | 5 Comments »

My good friend Emily used to try to get me to write more. We had to find a way to turn it into a competition to get me to do ... Read more..

San Diego ramblings

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted under books, me, travel. | Comments Off on San Diego ramblings

A few more rambling thoughts. I'm wearing glasses today, for the first time in 6 years. It's really really weird. They're "progressive" bi- or tri-focals. It turned out one of my ... Read more..

500 West hotel, San Diego

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted under me, travel. | Comments Off on 500 West hotel, San Diego

I've spent 5 nights, soon to be 6, at the 500 West hotel in San Diego. On the left is a sign they have next to the elevator. I love ... Read more..

Anything for him but mindless good taste

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted under me, twitter. | 14 Comments »

I have about ten things I could blog about today. Hopefully I wont. I think I'm going to go out and make an impulse purchase a bit later. Can something be ... Read more..

ETech Antigenic Cartography presentation online

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on ETech Antigenic Cartography presentation online

I gave my ETech talk on Wednesday afternoon. The Keynote presentation and a PDF of the slides are online. This was my second presentation made witk Keynote. It took me quite ... Read more..

More fragments of Orwell

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted under books, me. | 1 Comment »

I read more of Orwell over breakfast. Specifically, the As I Please articles from December 13 and December 20 1946. A brief excerpt from the latter: The whole point of Christmas is ... Read more..

Thiefhunters in paradise

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted under books, travel. | Comments Off on Thiefhunters in paradise

My good friend Bambi has finally begun to blog in earnest! Fantastic. She and her husband/partner Bob Arno have hundreds of true tales of their extraordinary, amazing, adventures all over the ... Read more..