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So, what’s the deal with PyPedal?

I’m glad you asked that. If you’ve seen the website recently then you know that there’s been no development activity for quite a long time. What can I say? I’ve been pretty busy on other things. The important point is … Continue reading

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ElleryPedia

Can’t get enough of Thing One’s wit and wisdom? Visit ElleryPedia for more!

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Moved to new host

I’ve moved from Godaddy to MochaHost. Everything seems to be working okay, and now I can get some Django going.

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PyPedal Article Published in Python Magazine

The March 2009 issue of Python Magazine is on the news-stands. Guess whose article is mentioned on the cover?

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Ingredients Outlook

Every month I get a copy of “Culinology, The Official Magazine of the Research Chefs Association” in my box at work. It’s a strange read if you’re not used to thinking about food in industrial terms. Consider this article from … Continue reading

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Who’s a philanthropist? I’m a philanthropist!

Who’s that handsome guy in the Gazette.Net? That’s yours truly, of course, helping out at Beltsville Elementary. Every year several of us from my lab at USDA participate in the MindCore Marathon program, which helps the students raise money and … Continue reading

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New George W. Bush Commemorative Pen

As George W. Bush returns to Crawford, TX, following the inauguration of Barack Obama last week he is no doubt planning his memoirs. Writing documents longhand is now all the rage, following the example of Neal Stephenson, who has written … Continue reading

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No Assistant Professorship for you!

A few of you know that I applied for a faculty position at LSU (my PhD advisor’s position). I was told last week that the position has been frozen. I don’t know when/if they’ll get permission to fill it any … Continue reading

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I Love My iPod Touch

This is so cool – I can write blog posts on my Touch. It’s been a long time since a new gadget was this much fun, although the Wii is pretty awesome, too.

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There’s so much genomic data that we hardly know what to do with it all

One of the things that falls out of our genomic evaluation system are breeding values for individual chromosomes for each trait evaluated. For the past few days I’ve been thinking about how to compare the genetic covariance matrices that we … Continue reading

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