back from the brink

Wow. Two months since the last time I posted. Judging from the lack of comments on my absence, then likely I'm the only one reading this thing anyways ;-)

Anyways, I'm actually not goint to write anything with substance right now. Instead, I wanted to get things going by talking about what I will be writing about in the forthcoming days.

1. I just passed my green belt test in Karatedo last week. It's surprising to me how much my perspective on personal safety has changed since I began my training.

2. Ethics within research. As some of you may or may not know, my PhD research is on evolution in genetic networks. In somewhat misleading terms, I'm trying to understand how humans and monkeys can share 99% of the same genes, yet be quite different.

3. Changing perspective. I realize that I pay more attention to world events now than I have in the past, but still... it seems there's a lot of terrible struggles taking place in the world right now. Tsunami, earthquake, hurricanes devastating the souther US, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and don't forget the atrocities occuring in Iraq and Sudan.

The stage has been set. Catch you on the next wave