Change of Plans

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.