Michael's Domain

All documents related the the HBGS course Tags in protein expression, detection and purification. Most documents are available in both PDF and OpenOffice format. Feel free to repurpose the documents.

This January our Esprit/Sigikid Frog broke. It's a musical toy to keep our baby occupied during diaper changes. It stopped playing its Schlaf, Kindlein schlaf melody after winding up its mechanism by pulling on the string that comes out of its bottom.

Das Internet-Angebot der deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehanstalten (sprich ARD) für Kinder (kinder.ard.de) ist ziemlich begrenzt (obwohl gutes Kinderfernsehn gemacht wird). Man findet zwar vieles online, aber selten die eigentlichen Sendungen, sondert viel Flash-Murks.

Apparently a significant number of people (I guess about 1-2% of the Finnish households) did not succumb to the political and advertisement pressure to upgrade their TV to receive digital broadcasts. Here in Finland analog broadcast has stopped in 2007. Thus without purchasing a "digibox" or a new digital TV, one cannot receive any Finnish broadcasts anymore and one should not need to pay the TV license fee to support the national public TV station YLE ("YLE maksu").

Finally our paper was accepted for publication in PNAS (downloadable also from here). I started the project by making the first construct 13 years ago, but it went nowhere for the first 9 years due to insufficient concentration of efforts and a few unlucky choices in the experimental design.