There has been some discussion recently in my high school alumni Yahoo group about the benefits of the school’s International Baccalaureate program. While I participated in the program, I was not able to earn the final IB diploma. I missed it by a few points on some of the exams, so I obtained [...]
I found out from a friend of mine at work today that recent dissertations from ProQuest, the company that archives quite a few of them, has started using Amazon and Google / Google Scholar to expand the audience beyond the academic community. You can see mine here.
According to ProQuest, dissertations from 2005 will be [...]
I recently developed some pictures that were on a disposable Fuji 35 mm camera. One of my favorites is one of my best friend, Patrick, and myself (on the right) after the graduate school graduation ceremony back in 2004.
It’s strange to see him with a geniune smile on his face. Special note: [...]
I havn’t been posting lately because I’ve been busy with work. I was able to get quite a bit of spectroscopy done the past few weeks and I am analyzing the data now. It looks well superficially. Under closer scrutiny, I am confident that it will be a comprehensive study of our [...]
The formation of the lanthanide-tetraphenylporphine chelates seems to have worked well for the most part. The gadolinium reaction seemed to form mostly a sandwich complex. The erbium one worked really well. From a preliminary x-ray crystal structure it looks like it is exactly what I want it to be.
I am going to [...]