Noise from the fan

The long time running of distributed computing may do some harm to the fan in a laptop, as I can hear some screaming from the fan in my one. I probably need to lubricate the fan sometime this weekend...

Tzuchi anniversary

I was asked to help Tzuchi foundation's anniversary 2 (or 3?) weeks ago, and today it's the day to work out.

As I'm not the member of the foundation, I don't know very well (nor want to know) about this society. I'm not a volunteer of them either, and also have got no plan to attend to be a member of them in future. What I've been doing with them these days is just give them a hand where they really need when I can, and actually there's nothing much I can do for them. Even today I felt I didn't do too much for them as well.

Well...this on the other hand might mean they've got really lots of member in this group.

OOo extends its competition

I've noticed on the mailing list of OOo that someone suggest extending the submission due date of Documentation Project Template/Clipart Competition as Oct 13 is just too rush for many people, and obviously the OOo has now extended the submission day, which is now from September 20, 2006 to October 31, 2006 at 23h59EDT (GMT-4). I believe this is a good new to every submitter (including me). I've got some ideas but was thinking the time was just too short, and now I've got a bit relief. :)

Helicobacter pylori gram's stain

It's strange that the Helicobacter pylori cells have got different formations when grown on different media, and even on the same plate they may also look different: I. Urea agar: Columbia blood agar base + 7% fetal bovin serum + HCl + urea + phenol red + antibiotics (vancomycin + amphotericin B + polymixin B) II. CHBHP: Columbia blood agar base + 10% horse blood + antibiotics (vancomycin + amphotericin B + polymixin B) They're all gram negative so this time gram positive cocci have been removed (or suppressed), but as they've got several looks and some of them look different from what I know about helicobacters, now I can't really make sure if they are exactly Helicobacter... :(

Typhi in the Waikato ?!

Rat disease hits (on Waikato Times) I remember there occationally are some mice running around in our house. Not quite sure if the fleas from rats would also be spread through mice...