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During the final week of 2005, many Quantum Diarists took the opportunity
to review the year past and look to the year ahead. They also mentioned
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Tue 03 January, 2006
12:48 Final thoughts» David WallerThe Quantum Diarists were asked to come up with a best of list from the last year of blogging. I've decided that my favourite three blogs were Trip to SNO, Stay-at-home physicist, and No, I don't study snow. These were...
10:16 New Blog: Entropy Bound» Peter SteinbergI just thought I'd take advantage of the short grace period we seem to be getting here to post an easy link to my new blog, Entropybound. Just click through via the black dot (Malevich's Black Circle [1913], actually...) I've...
Sun 01 January, 2006
23:54 Stalk Me Here» Gordon WattsMy blog is moving to http://gordonwatts.wordpress.com/ I just finished going through about 450 email messages from the holidays. Boy it was nice to have ignored them. Unfortunately, I found one, about 10 days old, telling me that this blog site...
20:10 The End of an Era» Gordon WattsThe info-mac network is no more. That is a picture of the first computer I ever owned, a Macintosh SE. I cut my teeth on an old PDP10 at Rutgers University -- with the good old ADM 3A and Visual...
19:06 I Will Never Drink Again» Gordon WattsWell, at least until dinner tonight. Mike Grace's New Year's party was great. I (over) stayed until the end; easy since I'd had two owl shifts the nights preceding in Chicago. I've moved across the US enough times in the...
12:09 ...?» Peter SteinbergThis must be an administrative mistake, but why fight it? I just finished watching one of my old favorite movies -- Yellow Submarine -- only to find only a million Einstein references over the course of the film, mainly by...
Sat 31 December, 2005
23:22 A hectic month» Anuj PurwarThis has been a very hectic month for me. I was at BNL (see previous post) and then I made my first trip to Fermilab. I was there to pick up a prototype module of silicon strip sensors bonded to...
20:24 End Of A Year» Gordon WattsWow. I wrote a blog for a whole year. And I wrote a lot. And I hope you enjoyed it! I managed to get several big things done -- two papers I worked on came out last year. Some things...
20:06 1 Day!» Gordon WattsIn the past it has taken my Spanish post-doc, Aran, up to 9 weeks to get his visa renewed. Not this time. It took one day! That is what I like. A lot of people are involved with getting this...
18:56 One last stream of consciousness» Rob GardnerI am ending 2005 with a final stream of consciousness post, which I hope captures a few useful thoughts and reflections on the year just ending. Here goes, in no particular order or sequence. First, tonight, December 31 is what...
18:47 The End (and Happy New Year!)» Peter Steinberg Dear Quantum Diaries Community - So: And, in the end, the blog you make is equal to the blog you take? Don't know about that, but I guess I had to take advantage of my one last opportunity to...
17:04 The Final Post of the Year» Sarah PhillipsIt has been quite a year. It is interesting for me to look back through my webdiary and see all the things that I have done and been involved with in this World Year of Physics. I feel as though...
16:25 New Year's Eve» Sarah PhillipsIt is New Year's Eve, and the snow is falling thickly and gracefully here in New Jersey. The snow is that beautiful sort of snow that falls in large snowflakes and sparkles when it reaches the ground. Jason and I...
09:28 Post-script to a Blog» Debbie HarrisDecember 31, 2005 I've been asked to pick my three favorite blogs from this year, and by looking over all the posts I wrote this year I'm realizing a few things: the first is that I like my writing better...
07:17 So long and thanks for all that Fish!» Ursula BasslerWhat to say now? The famous last words on this blog. Hmm. I am truthfully very happy to have participated in the QDs. And I am disoriented about the QDs to end. Like a candiate leaving reality TV show and...
Fri 30 December, 2005
21:11 Unwritten blogs» David WallerMany, many, many times I have sat in a bus, train, car, etc. in the last year and thought about ideas for blogs. I have averaged about 3 ideas per day. Unfortunately, I have managed to write only about 3...
20:28 Labour begins» David WallerThis should be quite an end to the year. My wife has just announced that she has gone into labour (at 90% confidence level for all you physics/stats aficionados out there). The odds are that we will have our second...
12:59 Physicists in Mourning» Debbie HarrisDecember 30, 2005 Since I was forgiven for starting the year of physics by blogging about birth, I hope I will be forgiven for ending the year of physics by blogging about death. On the eve of December 25 one...
04:33 Concludendo» Rosa AlbaCosì come l’anno mondiale della fisica, che ha stimolato questa iniziativa, anche i Quantum Diaries stanno per chiudere i battenti. E’ stata una esperienza molto particolare quella di ‘raccontarsi’ a chiunque avesse tempo e voglia per leggere ed ha cozzato...
Thu 29 December, 2005
18:49 Absolutely Devilish» Sarah Phillips Last night Jason took me to go and do something we have wanted to do for a long time: watch the New Jersey Devils squash the Washington D.C. Capitals in their home arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Our...
16:06 410 on TV» Peter SteinbergHere's a link to the realvideo of my 410th BNL Lecture. I'm still too scared to watch it (damn that's a short haircut) but many big thanks to the BNL video and web guys for getting it online so fast...
09:41 Le bogue est mort» Ursula Bassler…il ne crira plus cocodi cocoda” I think that’s it. We had two inconsistencies in the bug-fixer results, but we understand both of them, and none needs a software update. After driving back from Alsace, Barbara and Eddi stayed in...
05:24 la fin de 2005 (end of 2005)» Frederic Deliotvoila, l'annee de la physique s'acheve avec une semaine de vacances qui me fait le plus grand bien et qui ne sont pas de tout repos car il faut tout prepare pour la venue de notre petite fille dans exactement...
00:27 Back in the Saddle» Gordon WattsI'm back at Fermilab. My Christmas break was fantastic -- thanks to everyone who came from hundreds or thousands of miles! This was the first time that both the Heron and Watts/Chalmers families celebrated together. The collision of family customs...
Wed 28 December, 2005
17:35 It's Coming Sooner Than We Thnik...» Gordon WattsFrom a NYTimes article:How could this happen? Ms. Brown asked Representative Gibson C. Armstrong two summers ago, complaining about a physics professor at the York campus of Pennsylvania State University who she said routinely used class time to belittle President...
15:52 One World Year in Physics: Big Picture» Peter SteinbergI must admit that it's with a bittersweet taste in my mouth that I try and wrap up my year as Quantum Diarist #5. In retrospect, I had absolutely no idea (or absolutely wrong ideas) about how this whole blogging...
09:00 my 2005 in review» Tommaso DorigoI realized minutes after posting the last post that I have not complied fully with my editor´s request to comment on 2005 from my personal point of view. That is, whatever happened to me this year. It has been a...
08:42 three posts for 2005» Tommaso DorigoThe quantum diaries are coming to a close, and - as much as I would like to continue with this endeavour - I have to comply, and post this last one with a choice of three representative posts I had...
04:09 Last blog of the year» Maaike LimperAfter my great succes of my talk in Geneva I ofcourse went back in the cleanroom that same weekend to work a bit more... However the week before christmas I had a great excuse to not be in the cleanroom...
Tue 27 December, 2005
20:06 The Return of RHIC» Peter SteinbergAlmost as if someone knew that I needed a Hollywood ending, it turns out that the rumors are true: the 2006 RHIC run has been reinstated. It won't be a fully year of physics, but it's way more than nothing,...
16:17 ROOT/SQL Smackdown!» Gordon WattsI've always wanted to put Smackdown in the title of a blog entry. Just no excuse till now. Guess I shouldn't let that stop me! This entry is a bit technical. Sorry! Every Christmas I try to do something short...
09:31 A year of QD» Sandra LeoneQD is close to its end, together with the World Year of Physics. I must admit that I'll miss reading many of the Quantum Diarists, and I'll miss writing, as well, even if for long periods I was not able...
08:36 Un anno di QD» Sandra LeoneQD finisce, insieme all'anno Mondiale della Fisica. Devo dire che mi manchera` leggere i post di molti Quantum Diarists, e confesso che mi manchera` scrivere, anche se per molti periodi non sono riuscita a partecipare con costanza. Presumibilmente questo e`...
01:38 Year in Review» Caolionn O'ConnellI'm not a fan of Cliff Notes, but there have been occasions in my past when I had other priorities, like Beverly Hills, 90210, and Cliff Notes were an unfortunate necessity. I am not one to condemn those that look...
01:30 CODA» Caolionn O'Connell"An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates I did it and ... well ... now I'm done. From this self-examination I have learned one thing. Yep, just one. As it turns out, I'm not so special. In fact, I...
Mon 26 December, 2005
16:28 Halma» Ursula Bassler Do you know Halma? Apparently it is called Chinese checkers in English, yet in Germany the field has the form of a star and you can play it with two or three playes. It’s a game that has always...
Sun 25 December, 2005
18:08 Camera Lust» Gordon WattsIt wasn't 30 minutes after I got into the house that my mother was showing off her new Camera -- the Casio EX-Z750. As it happens, this is the next generation version of my camera. It is smaller, faster, bigger...
04:24 Big party» Tommaso DorigoOn the eve of the 23rd, 45 of my colleagues and friends gathered in our new home to party together, celebrate christmas, my new position, and just hang together. We had several people coming from abroad who were able to...
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