Nick Seeber's blog

Blogging again?

It's been a long time since I wrote on my blog; so long in fact that I discovered my account had gone into suspense and despite attempts to revive it with the application of a judicious credit card it remained unresponsive. However the kind folks at TypePad have temporarily made my account free so I thought it only right to at least put something online.

In terms of my plan for blogging once again, I have found a very handy app called Blogsy, which combined with my Logitech aluminium iPad keyboard / case makes for a lightweight and effective blooging machine. As such I hope to accomplish great things in the near future with this excellent combo.

The best blogging platform for the iPad?

The best iPad keyboard?

I'm not sure what I'll focus on but I suspect it will be a bit more focused than before on performance-related concepts. I love my job as a consultant and since joining Deloitte (coincident with when my blogging output declined funnily enough) I've been thinking a lot about the skills and experience which goes into making a great advisor. So maybe I'll write about that.

Posted with Blogsy

Home page

Hello visitor...

Given my reduced blogging output, I've decided to change my approach and turn this site into more of a static website than a blog - below I have some links to the most popular articles, or you can use the search bar to the left.

PHOTOS: I'm now hosting my photos on my Flickr page. Note that you can download full-size images from Flickr if you want to print any of my photos - I'm happy for anyone to use them for non-commercial purposes.

St Michael's Mount

Cornwall trip with Oz & Mikey, originally uploaded by nickseeber.

A photo of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, from a recent holiday with a couple of friends. I used my wide-angle 12-24mm Nikkor lens so it was interesting to see what I could do with it. I'll post a few more shortly.

The Registry of Standard Biological Parts

This is the reductionist approach to cell biology, par excellence. I'm looking forward to going into the detail of this site, if I can recall some of my undergraduate cell biology and biochemistry!

The Registry is a collection of ~3200 genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to build synthetic biology devices and systems. Founded in 2003 at MIT, the Registry is part of the Synthetic Biology community's efforts to make biology easier to engineer. It provides a resource of available genetic parts to iGEM teams and academic labs.

via partsregistry.org

High Speed Robotic Hand in action

I've just been watching a demo reel of the High Speed Robotic Hand being developed by the Ishikawa Komuro Lab. It features a super-quick robotic hand doing all sorts of object manipulation - bouncing a ping-pong ball, twirling sticks, throwing and catching, and picking up a grain of rice with tweezers:

Whilst I've seen most of these videos before individually, it's great to see them compiled into one set. Until you see this stuff in acton you won't believe it's real technology.