Mailund on the Internet

With the whole RSI stuff, I’ve been away from the blog since August. So long, really, that I hardly think about blogging any more. So I figure that if I don’t get started again soon, I probably never will. So here’s the first post in a long while.

It’s also the first post I’ve written on an iPad, so let’s see how that goes.

So much has happened while I’ve been away from the blog that I would have loved to write about, but by now it would just seem silly to rehash old news. But I am sure that there will soon be interesting news to write about.

I expect a slow start now that I try to get back. I’m still in physiotherapy and far from recovered, so I have to keep my computer time pretty short, but let’s see how it goes.

I’ve been down with the flu all week.

It seems to be very popular these days.  A lot of people get the flu around here.  Personally, I don’t really see the attraction — I didn’t enjoy it one bit.

Anyway, I’m finally mostly recovered, so I’m up and about again, and getting ready to go to Hinxton for a meeting in the Gorilla Genome Consortium tomorrow.  I’m pretty happy that I recovered just in time, ’cause this is a meeting I’ve been looking forward to.

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That’s Nov 9, not Sep 11, for you guys out there who use the weird month/day/year notation…

There is nothing to celebrate Sep 11, but Nov 9 is a day for celebration, and today we celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall which is as good a date as any for celebrating the end of the Cold War.

I was in Berlin a few weeks after the fall of the wall myself. That was on a trip that was planned before the fall of the wall, so it was pure luck that I experienced this historical event first hand.

It is hard today to imagine how east and west Europe was separated and practically two different worlds. Today, I have many friends from eastern Europe and the former USSR; that would not have been possible 20 years ago.  We have students here at BiRC and at AU in general from the other side of the iron curtain.  That would not have been possible 20 years ago.

Today is truly a day for celebration!

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