• One year old

    Nov 28 2008

    My daughter Edith is turning one year old on Sunday. It seems almost incredible that a whole year has passed.

  • Building your dissertation in pieces

    Nov 25 2008

    I have always wanted to is publish a series of smaller, more easily accomplished and digestible papers and then tie them together with some glue text and call it a dissertation.

  • Thinking smaller

    Nov 24 2008

    I want to break my dissertation into smaller, more managable sub-projects.

  • Screening exam study plan

    Nov 23 2008

    I’ve got to break down what I need to do into manageable steps, else I’ll just be forever paused on the threshold, terrified.

  • Progress update #2

    Nov 17 2008

    Progress report #2 on my book project.

  • Summary: Mining email social networks

    Nov 17 2008

    This paper is a good example of what I ultimately want to do: analyze digital artifacts of an open source software project to uncover the social structure of the community.

  • In the market for a new model

    Nov 14 2008

    I presented my thoughts on my research to my research group and received some good feedback that I intend to act on.

  • Vicious cycle

    Nov 13 2008

    Babies + daycare + family = everyone sick.

  • Burned out

    Nov 06 2008

    I’m feeling pretty burned out.

  • Revisiting my refocusing

    Nov 04 2008

    I’m asking myself why I need to understand OSS to do my research, even though my data will come from open source software communities and projects.