Posts like whoa

Three posts in as many days. Outstanding. I'm kind of at a stand-still on the lab-work front for the moment. We run my final NMR samples on Thursday, and the first of my lipid test samples on Friday, and until then there is no wet-work that I need to do. Which is not to say that I have nothing to do, quite the contrary. I have a bunch of stuff to do for my diploma - I am so far behind on that that it really isn't funny. I need to organise getting to Leuven and meeting up with the guys in the lab there. Vince is entirely down with the fact that I'm pretty much just hitting up the dude for a job and has said that he'll pay for the whole malarky, but I don't really think that's fair, especially given that I'm going to go to the continent anyway. I also have to put together the data for the ALD6 paper manuscript that Ryan from UWS was preparing in February. I think it's unlikely that he'll read this, but I'm going to apologise anyway. I think we'll be able to add some of the data that I've generated here, so I'll add emailing Ryan to the list of stuff to do. Finally, and most importantly, I have to write a thesis at some stage. I've been reading Ant's introduction and working out what needs to go into mine, but it's going to be epic. Given that Mat told me that his has been craziness, it's time to put pen to paper so to speak. All this shit to do has been keeping me awake at night - not in a "holy shit everything is fucked I hate my life" kind of way, but more of a "how can I most efficiently get all this shit done" kind of way, which is good, and entirely unlike me.

Having sold out by getting an iPod, I've started to use Last.fm. When I originally looked at it it didn't support the Creative media player (as far as I could see), but now that I'm a iTunes using sellout, it works fine. I don't really see the reason for it other than to show off just how fucking rad my music collection is, but that's reason enough for me. Sure, I get a few links to occasional stuff that I hadn't heard of, but I'm so goddam underground that I'm practically in China anyway. Anyway, my user name is duncan_donuts. There was an article in the Guardian tech section about keeping all your Last.fm, flickr, facebook, etc stuff in one place. No doubt Joel has been using something that does that for the last seven years - maybe he'll twitter about it.

Right, time to do something constructive.