Steve Flinter’s blog

According to the Google Operating System blog, gmail is getting IMAP support.
This is really cool, although it will be interesting to see how they manage to deal with gmail tags – just translate them into IMAP folders, perhaps?
My gmail account hasn’t been enabled yet, but I’m looking forward to checking it out.

SFI has just opened the 2008 E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award Programme for submissions.
Closing date for submissions is December 19 @ 1pm.

There’s been a lot of coverage recently about a new web app called Twine, which is supposedly built on semantic web technology. It’ll be interesting to see how this fares in the real world, as there are precious few real semantic web apps in the wild with any kind of mass popularity.

Check it out here

Guests at a business lunch hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce on Thursday were told that investing in scientific research provides a golden opportunity to put in place a lasting foundation for future economic growth. Professor Frank Gannon, director general, Science Foundation Ireland, said that intense competition from emerging economies means [...]

James McInerney has a nice post on his blog about applying for an RFP grant.
James’s comment is that

It is a reasonably good system, not perfect, but I am not sure that any system is perfect.

Probably a fair comment. A lot of the reasoning behind how programmes such as RFP are organised is based on [...]

Like others before me, I am moving my blog over to the Mephisto blogging system from Typo. I have found in recent months that Typo has required a lot of hand-holding to keep it up-and-running, so I’m hopeful that Mephisto will prove more stable.
Inevitably, some content will get lost in the move, so I’ll [...]

If the US science funders don’t go for it, perhaps SFI could step in?

“Now, I’m no science major, but if I’m being told by a group of people that the protons, neutrons, and electrons need unifying, then I think we owe it to the American people to go in and unify them,” Rep. Mark Udall [...]