My birthday (31) and the Adsense

Today is my 31st birthday, nearing half-point now (statistically seen). Also, by now I should have had my scientific moment of glory, otherwise I can forget that Nobel prize. Oh well, forget it. less than 1 minute read

More cdk.interfaces updates

Yesterday I had some spare time before going to a meeting about the Woordenboek Organische Chemie, so I was boldly going where no one has went before: getting the CDK module core independent of the data module. Why, you might wonder… less than 1 minute read

JChemPaint applet download size: 538kB

A good functional molecular editor is of much important to the chemical web. There are a few small download sized editors around. JChemPaint has been available as applet for some time now, but the download size has been large. The situation has improved considerable over the past months, and the download size upon which the applet now shows up in your webbrowser is down to 538kB. A live demo is available from www.chemistry-development-kit.org. less than 1 minute read

Wrapping up...

Less then three months before the end of my contract of my PhD project. And not nearly done yet. Weekends are now spend on wrapping up bits of experimental research into something like a coherent article. And even lot’s of calculations to do to answer the open questions. FreeMind is helping me organize thoughts. less than 1 minute read

Viagra saves the environment

This week there was an interesting article in the Dutch Intermediar about viagra. They cite an article in Environmental Conversation and state that it saves the environment as it greatly reduced the market for animal parts from the traditional chinese medicine that address the same problem as viagra does. less than 1 minute read

CDK News 2.3 and InChI's

CDK News 2.3 is scheduled for this month, and origanally planned to be distributed on the CDK5AW event. So, it’s a bit late. But the editorial process is converging… I realized that I forgot to mention the requirement for InChI’s whenever molecules are given. So, I’m now in the process of going through the issue and add the missing identifiers… less than 1 minute read

Jmol's FAH team in Top 800

The Jmol FAH team has just entered the Top 800 of most active Folding@Home teams. And they started monitoring contributions on a user level. Thus, I can now see how active I am within the team. And so can you! Join the team, and let’s get into the Top 500! less than 1 minute read