The ScienceBlogs server is getting upgraded tonight, from 9pm EDT until midnight. During that time, there will be no new posts on SB, nor can you post comments, but you can certainly read my blog (time to browse my ample archives, perhaps) or the blogs of my SciBlings. We'll be back and twice as good after midnight. Hopefully the upgrade will mean less crashes at times when two or three SB blogs get simultaneously hit by avalanches of visits from Digg, Reddit, Fark, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, DailyKos etc.
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In light of my post earlier today about the discrepanices between 'real time' and 'clock time' (or 'social time'), it is heartening that the Parliament in the U.K.
It's Memorial Day weekend here in the States. For those of us lucky enough not to be on call, working retail, or otherwise being forced to go to work, it means three days away from work.
I somehow managed to lose track of time for a bit, and forgot that it was Nobel season until I saw this morning's announcement that the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine hase just been announced, going to Mario R.