Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an annual celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It is also, I am reliably informed, Cake Decorating Day. No room, then, for sentimentality, but I must note that today is also the 7th anniversary of this website.
As we reported in 2006, Typhoon Xangsane had damaged the National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory in the Philippines, but left IRRI’s genebank unscathed.
Seven years on, genebanks are still at risk, although there are also safety duplicates in the frozen wastes. And we’re still trying to keep up with agricultural biodiversity in all its many manifestations.
A few things have changed, too. Behind the scenes, we’ve had our ups and downs with our web host, who unilaterally terminated what we thought was a lifetime contract. And, as you might expect, we’ve both moved on in one sense or another from where we were back in 2006.
Let me, though, ask one favour of you, dear reader: is there anything you either like or dislike, that you would like to see more or less of? Leave a comment. We can’t promise, but we can try.
And thanks for reading.
