It was a very busy week, but eminently satisfactory in the end. After watching the news with Lucy, I spent a little time with Daniel and then transfered the wort from the primary to secondary fermenter. The key to success in beermaking is avoiding contamination. I carefully sanitized the secondary fermenter and the siphon before doing the transfer and then cleaned everything up carefully afterwards. If I had done this two days ago, I could probably bottle on Sunday. As it is, I'll probably have to bottle some evening next week.
I took some time during the afternoon and caught up with my blog reading just a bit. I haven't had time for much since the new machines came in. I got current on metafilter and then read a few blogs I hadn't looked at before. All interesting stuff, but nothing of particular note.
One bit of particular interest was referenced on 
slashdot: Hydra, a Rend-ez-vous enabled text editor. A few of us tried it out this afternoon. Very impressive! Wikis have been a great technology for doing asynchronous collaboration. Hydra solves the issues associated with synchronous collaboration. I pointed Joe at it and anticipate seeing his expression on Monday after he's had a chance to play with it. I have added it to the loadset so it should get disted out the machines in the lab tonight.
I spent a fair amount of time this afternoon installing bioinformatics software and tracking down and fixing minor problems with the loadset and . I found an outfit called bioteam which has been involved in porting to MacOS X. They have a distribution with a bunch of bioinformatics software that is altivec enabled. It's installed now -- now we just need to figure out how it works. Then I tracked down a problem with Illustrator. For some reason the application had lost its application-ness and had turned into a folder. I renamed it "Adobe Illustrator 10.app" and it seemed to work again that way. That's not how it came, but it seems to work. I can always go back and reinstall if that's really necessary.
The current state of the University is becoming a real pressure-cooker for the staff. It appears that additional responsibilities get laid on the staff every week at the same time staff is being cut. Even people who are normally preternaturally calm are showing signs of tension.