Two weeks in, and I'm managing to keep up despite a very busy schedule. I've been working on my thesis, mostly. Also catching up with friends and working on presentations. I'm also vaguely considering applying for the Google Summer of Code. We'll see. It'd be great to get accepted, especially given my enthusiasm for open source software.

I added the first article in my column “Ludicity”. It's a running blog publication that basically just details my thoughts on games, books, computers and other topics that occupy me during my “free” time. Grad school doesn't really involve free time, but I can pretend, right?

So, I'm hanging out at CALICO, working on my website because none of the presentations this morning look very interesting. I had my presentation yesterday, which went really well, and now that I've calmed down and had some really great brainstorms, I feel ready to just get back to work, really. I had this epiphany during a presentation on Thursday for a really cool research project. Of course, right now, it's totally secret.

As you can tell, this is my new website. Spiffy, eh? The icons actually aren't mine. They're part of an open source icon set for the KDE desktop environment (that's a Linux thing). Of course, since they're free and open, I can use them if I want as well. Hope you like the new interface. Leave me some messages and I'll get back to you next week. I'm going to try to have this blog be a weekly (Saturday) thing. It was going pretty well for awhile last year. Let's see if I can keep it up this time.