Category Archives: Personal

I finally got around to adding a few additional blogs to my blogroll, and thought I’d acknowledge them: White Coat Underground.  I met PalMD at ScienceOnline09 and, in addition to him being one of those people I immediately liked and … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve managed to graduate my first doctoral student!  I was confident in his ability to pass the dissertation defense, but I was still probably as nervous as he was.  Did I train him well enough?  Is his research sound … Continue reading →

I’ve passed yet another personal blogging milestone: a total of 200k page views!  It seems like yesterday that I passed thet 100k mark, though it was actually last month.  Thanks to my ‘spot the math errors‘ post, I’ve had over … Continue reading →

Well, I’m back!  I haven’t been posting much since heading off to the conference, in spite of my best intentions.  Conference activities, both official and not, were entirely too distracting to get much done. The sessions were quite enjoyable and … Continue reading →

I head out this afternoon to go to ScienceOnline ’09, the third annual science blogging conference held in NC: I’ll be part of a panel discussing “The Web and the History of Science“, with excellent science bloggers scicurious and Laelaps. … Continue reading →

What a great way to start the new year!  According to the Web of Science, my h-index has climbed to 13 this week! For those not familiar with it, the Hirsch index is a (rough) measure of the importance of … Continue reading →

Whew!  The fiancée and I managed to get back home last night without any serious hassles.  We’ve been simply exhausted, though, because our trip involved three legs: a starting visit with my family in Chicago for a couple of days, … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, I head off into the great abyss… visiting relatives for the holidays! (Just kidding, everyone!)  I’m going to try and post a few things of substance while I’m away, but I’m sure I’ll get less done than I expect. … Continue reading →

I passed another blogging milestone several days ago — 100,000 total page views!   The funny thing:  on the 13th, I was still at 84,000.  Then someone put my “Spot the math errors!” post on StumbleUpon (thanks for that, whoever did … Continue reading →