Friday, June 08, 2007

08-06-07

Seems my laptop is recovered, the honour is Kaspersky's!

It's the time for me to change the media in all flasks, and also, update my 2nd report...

Thursday, June 07, 2007

07-06-07

Disappointting world! My dear proteins percipitated... Both the one from 2 M Urea to PBS and the one from 6 M Urea to 4 M Urea. 4 degree in storage now, I will discuss it with Christina tomorrow.

The book arrived, it is a thick one, will cost me some time to finish. However, the CD is still not in my hand.

Kaspersky installed, in German. It works anyways, I will scan my computer tonight. Addtional knowledge: "Die" means female, "Das" neutral, and "Der" male... The holy germanic language...

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

06-06-07 (2)

I haven't received the package - what package? The CD and the book! my friend! Whatever...

Briefly, I changed my web browser from Internet Explorer 7.0 to Firefox (don't know the exact version, the latest one), and tomorrow Richard will kindly provide me Karpaskey (?). Emm... yes the Karpaskey (?) here is an anti-virus software. It all began ~20 days ago, at that time I was trying to find a cracked version of Zuma Deluxe, and then... then, when ran a .exe file in a downloaded .zip package, I was infected by an unkonwn virus/spyware/etc,. It was easy to tell since I can find a newly created file at C:\, and it respawns when you delete it... Then I occasionally encounter the famous "blue screen" and "service fail, restart in 1 minute" thing.
I told this story to Christina today, shen then suggested me to ask Richard for an antivirus software. She recommended Firefox as well, that's why I changed the browser. I hope the bloody things will end tomorrow.

Btw, I gave Richard my portable hard disk today, he is a metal fan, eager for the 120 GB metal in my disk. He will copy everything in the 1 TB server of our lab, crazy, but good.

Aimee received an email with 4 attachments from the Univ. of Manchester. Both of us were confused by the offer letter - the mail used a title of PhD programme, but the contents inside used Master of Philosophy, moreover, the programme length is 3 years. We sent a mail back asking for explanation.
Good thing here is that, the univ. asks her to attend a 5-week pre-session English course, and this means, she may come here in July! Let's celebrate, praise to the univ.!

Ahhh... Looking forward, hoping receiving the package tomorrow.

06-06-07

Today an exciting report from science, the elongated cell life by virus infection http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;316/5829/1345. Whatever, the long cell life doesn't mean long creature life.

I ordered a chant CD and Divine Comedy from amazon, ~12 pounds. I need something inspiring for me - for example, the chants. I guess the book will arrive today, hopefully the CD as well.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

05-06-07

A new receptor related to the fear feeling of mice had been discovered, this is so interesting. See here http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070528/full/070528-13.html. However, we still do not know what is the exact mechanism for this phenomenon. Is is related to the storage of memory, the processing of memory, analyse of signal, or something else?

PTC124 is mentioned again, it has such a huge potential for the genetic diseases that can not be ignored... http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v6/n6/full/nrd2339.html

Monday, June 04, 2007

The creator

I should admit, the feeling of the existing of that one is so strong.
It is all about creation, the fact that we are albe to reproduce ourselves...

04-06-07

Things goes well, Friday night those we MRes students went for dinner, and those guys stayed in pub until 2 AM... Luckily, or not so luckily, I left at around 8 PM.

I have to make a plan for my wedding, I want to create something different. At this time, I feel my knowledge is so miserable, literature, music, ceremony... I know nothing!
Ok, I still have 1 month, I will try best.

About news, it is interesting that people found the function of previous "useless" mRNA, see http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v9/n6/full/ncb0607-617.html.

Other things, I am beginning more work on protein now, not bad.