another change of blog focus

Two things:

1. Inspired by Jeff's blog, I'm going to start posting about things I've been learning. The idea is a) to not forget as much and b) to sometimes get people to tell me more about these things. The post below is an example of this.
2. Inspired by the experimentalists in my lab, I started a blog to track my thesis work (or lack thereof) at aramthesis.blogspot.com. The sort-of-Ilya-inspired idea is related to time management; seeing how long I spend on tasks vis-a-vis their importance. And hopefully it'll lower the interestingness threshold for posting.