Starting up

I'm starting this blog to try to keep a record of my thoughts about my dissertation project, in a form that is both digital (making it easily edited, shared and transferred) and public (meaning that my daily posting quota is verifiable and enforceable). I'm uncertain about who to share this blog with -maybe just Angela so that she can yell at me if I underproduce. Perhaps also some of my Berkeley colleagues in order to get their reactions and feedback, or maybe I should just make it public for my friends as well, but that might prove unpleasantly revealing. In any case, let this be the first post, and tomorrow I'll sketch out my dissertation ideas and preliminary hypotheses.