Der Bioinformatiker

So now the work-related news:

I currently work at the R&D Department of my Alma Mater, the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria. The project I’m workting on is not bioinformatics-related but very interesting. I got to work a lot with Python and wxPython as well as some insight into hardware development. Some possibly interesting ideas for bioinformatics may come out of this later; I have to find someone who would need it and finance it, however.

The project is planned to be finished by October, we will see what I will work on from then.

I also started working in the education part of the university. Last year, I was project coach, and this year I changed to being tutor for the Linux-For-Beginners course for bioinformatics and one half of the software engineers. Unfortunately, I may only work for 4 hours per week on education besides the research, so the other half of SE has to be taken over by someone else.

I find it very interesting to work with students. I hope there will be more opportunities in the future for that!

So, what’s new with my diving?

Elke and I joined a diving club in Linz (Police Diving Club) to have some reliable company (and get cheaper air). I’m also thinking about continuing my courses (I’d have to change the system from PADI to CMAS, however – there are some annoying exams to qualify for that).

Our “new friends” from the club are all-year-divers, so I got us some nice dry-suits from eBay so we went diving regularely throughout the winter. The water is incredibly clear – and there are no other annoying divers around.

We also had another diving holiday in Egypt, again in Sharm el-Sheik; it was great there, we had some fantastic guides and so we saw around 14 hammerhead sharks on one dive, and lots of turtles.

Well, it’s been a long time since I wrote something here. So I’ll fix up anything that’s broken, and write a recap of what has happened in my life since the last posts.

And then, hopefully, I’ll blog more often. Somehow I feel I got something to say again. But maybe that’s because of twitter.