Virgin code, this morning
Been a bit quiet on the old blogging front recently. Things were joyously hectic up until recently with grants and manuscripts and the usual academic…stuff. then I was ramping up for a new project when one of my co-bosses told me not to bother, and we had to cancel it. Mixed feelings about that: nice to be told to work less, but it was something I was looking forward to playing with.
So now my team is in maintenance mode. A couple of the PIs we’re working with are getting ready to begin their clinical trials so there’s some background checks going on. We have to make sure the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals are kosher, and a couple of these have been waiting in the wings for so long my guys have to go blow the dust off them and have a look around to find out what the fuss was all about way back when. But it’ll be fun to start some new science.
I’m hoping to begin work on a couple of manuscripts in a week or two; waiting for my clinician friend to get some family business out of the way first. And we’re prepping for three (3) more R01 grant applications this fall (October deadlines, I think), so I’m also reading a lot about open source development and end-user driven modification and software adaption; and e-health policy & procedure.
Now these two are obviously not inter-related, and that’s one of the things I love about my job. When my head gets too full of O’Reilly media and programming, I switch to Federal regulations and public health policy.
I am a geek
And for fun, because of what I do and with whom I work, I’ve decided I need to learn to program, so, you’ll see above the first program I’ve written since Bro. Paul’s BASIC programming in 7th grade (a long time ago, never mind exact dates! Ed.) I’m just happy that I managed to get as far as finding the interpreter, downloading and opening it. Let alone that my first attempt was so utterly successful it can only be a matter of time before I graduate from Python to go on and conquer Perl & PHP…
Anyway, I’ll keep you updated. In fact…I might write a little script that does it for me…
‘Idle’ is about right.
Thanks Network crew, Death to SPAM!!
Spam? Damn, missed it.
Corrie and the Network Ninja’s were on it like…admin on Spam…