Life: I passed my qualifying exam in early June (yay!) so I'm officially a PhD candidate now. I probably have another 3-4 years of research to do before I finish. So uh, that's where I've been/been doing for the past year. I find it takes far less time to read, comment, and keep up with all of you than to sit down and actually compose entries ( Read more... )

Link to The Problem with PurityFirst, I want to celebrate the ending of the saga of fixing-autumnmist's-internet-connection... It only took, uh 8 days for me to regain functional and reliable internet service from AT&T. (Whyyyyy can't FiOS be sold here ( Read more... )