Jun
27
2008
As inspired by the comment from ChemMan, here are the relevant excerpts from HR2642 for science:
“National Science Foundation
research and related activities
For an additional amount for `Research and RelatedActivities’, $22,500,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be available solelyfor activities authorized by section 7002(b)(2)(A)(iv) of Public Law110-69.
education and human resources
For an additional amount for `Education [...]
Jun
27
2008
It was a long road, but the Congress has now approved the Iraq war spending bill. Both houses have now approved the final version of the spending bill, which presumably goes to the President for either a veto or a signature. News sources [1] [2] report that the bill contains a total of $400 million [...]
Jun
26
2008
Recently, SLAC cleaned out its library and moved to new digs in a nearby building. I walked past the old space today while working with some colleagues in the same building. At first, I turned past the old library space and headed for the exit. The emptiness of the space caught my attention, and so [...]
Jun
17
2008
Firefox 3 is officially released today (get your copy at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/). To top it, Mozilla is going for a Guinness record on the most downloads of a single piece of software in one day. You can pledge to participate in this and then download a copy; you have until about mid-day on Jan. 18 (Pacific [...]
Jun
14
2008
This was a pretty exciting week. It peaked on Wednesday when the GLAST satellite, a space-based gamma ray observatory, was launched into orbit. I was sitting the in weekly BaBar physics meeting, and unable to go watch the launch with my GLAST colleagues in the main auditorium I pulled up NASA TV and watched the [...]
Jun
13
2008
With the primary season drawing to a close, I decided to try to
subscribe to both John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s blogs tonight. I like
to use the RSS feeds, since any open-source reader can use them. Obama
was a snap; his RSS feed was right there at the top of the blog. McCain
was a different story. I [...]
Jun
02
2008
Sorry I got so tardy last week about posting. Elba was a bit all-consuming, and I don’t just mean in the mountains of food that Italy seemed fit to provide. We started each day at 8:30, with sessions ranging on topics from the rarest of CP violations in B decay to the rarest of decays [...]
