Well obviously I have not been sticking to my original goal of posting 5 days a week. I thought I would state why. Blogging my research each day was very time consuming, ~30 minutes each day. That would be fine if I used the blog as a research tool for myself but I feel that there are better research tools I could spend that time on. In particular I have been using that time to better document my research in my electronic notebook. I use Microsoft OneNote (see image below), which is by far the best electronic notebook program I have found and highly recommend it (even on a mac, it is worth getting VMware Fusion for).
The one disadvantage of not blogging and focusing on my notebook is the lack of public outreach and openness. To try to compensate I have spent more time documenting my research on my website. My plan is that after each paper I will summarize the results in a manor more accessible to the public. I have already done this with our first paper on the Musket Ball Cluster, see
my research page. Perhaps I will also copy these summaries to this blog as well.
