The card reader outside room 140 appears to have lost its mind; it is no longer responding to card swipes. A work order has been submitted and hopefully the repair will be prompt. If you need to get into room 140, you should be able to enter via room 139. UPDATE: the issue was resolved…
FTIR behaving (but…)
The FTIR has been functioning properly lately; lamentably, this is not because of anything we have consciously done. We are still waiting for a response to our tech support request with Thermo and hope to have some definitive steps to take when the problem recurs. Please let us know if you run into problems. I…
FTIR misbehaving
Our FTIR – normally a well-behaved and very much used instrument – is throwing a timeout error during analyses. There appears to be an issue with the optical bench of the instrument, one which we have been unable to resolve independently; we are waiting for technical support from the manufacturer. (Thermo, are you listening?) In…