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I'm excited to finally be able to announce that Jim Graham will be joining Scimatic Software this fall as a partner.

One of the benefits of our new office on spadina.... Pho Hung lunches.

Went to the Radiohead concert at the Amphitheater up the road last night.  It was raining like hell and about 5 minutes before we left the house the rain stopped and I took this picture from our balcony.

BioBarCamp has come and gone... what a great time!

Special thanks goes out to Attila Csordas and John Cumbers who were the main instigators that made this event happen.

BioBarCamp in Palo Alto next month is now officially full!  With 75 available slots any new sign ups will be going onto a waiting list.

Held at the Instituue for the Future, this camp looks to be shaping up to be an interesting event.  This BarCamp will be slanted towards towards Biologists (hence its name) but I think that we will still find a lot of common ground to discuss.

Some links for those looking for more information about the event:

So many great get companies get their start at Stanford University.  I realize the the Y Combinator is there but I think the students are given a head start right from the start.

A research group in Argentina collecting gas from cows determined that a 550 Kg cow could produce 800-1000 liters of emissions each day!

Full story here.

Updating Debian Now that we have the TS7200 booting Debian linux from the compact flash we can install the development tools that we need.The first step is to update debian using the apt-get functionality:apt-get update

The AnIML Tools blog has been neglected in the past little while.  The problem with running open source projects (here and here) and a startup company at the same time is that the projects with a revenue stream always win out.
That said I've been busy working on the next version of AnIML Tools (0.2.0).