Resolved: acquiescence
With the new year comes opportunity for change in and, l hope, simplification of one’s life. Accordingly, I am eliminating the comments function from this blog. The simple truth is this: I have not gotten spam filter Akismet to work, but I have blacklisted all kinds of IP addresses as well as dozens of words and phrases (e.g., penile enlargement). Still the spam refuses to die and frankly I’m sick of it. In my view, life is too short to have to walk around with an electronic flyswatter 24/7, especially if you’re paying good money for bandwidth. So, at the risk of alienating one or two of you, henceforth Genomeboy will be comment-free. I hope you understand and I hope the blogging will be better for it. As always I would be happy to hear from you via my Duke address…I’m not hard to find.
Thanks for reading.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."