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I've updated my site. Changes include

The slides from my Introduction to Programming for Bioinformatics using Python class taught at the NBN, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
My PyCon 2004 talk. It covered how Python as a high-level language fits in with the different chemistry and biology projects. I figured most people aren't in those fields so wouldn't want lots of details on the different projects. Instead, I covered more of the history of high level languages and why Python fits in pretty well in chemistry but why it isn't (yet) so popular in bioinformatics.
I tried a different lecture style this time, no slides, just talk since most of what I was talking about was history. Turns out that I use the overhead notes a lot for myself. I tried to follow my essay but kept rearranging things. Even if I don't have overhead bullet points for the lecture (some pictures would still help) I found out I need them for myself. AMK pointed out that I talked too much about history. I think for EuroPython I'll focus more on the actual libraries.
there's news about my current travel schedule. EuroPython in June and BOSC/ISMB in July. Hope to talk about Biopython in the first and EUtils (and maybe this little project with the NBN) at the second.

Oh, and I was nominated and accepted to the Python Software Foundation, to say nothing of my PSU memb