About this Blog

This blog contains three basic types of entries:

  1. Explanations of things I wish I’d known earlier, and write down in case the whole time-travel problem ever gets solved.
  2. Accounts of things I do that have no apparent purpose, but which I can justify with the notion that “at least I’ll get a blog post out of it”.
  3. Rants.

I publish one item per virtual day. The “virtual” is important; every post is assigned a day, and over the course of a year there will be 365 (or 366, you get the idea) posts produced. However, the 15 January post (for example) might not appear on 15 January; it might appear on the 16th, 17th, or sometime later. On some calendar days nothing gets published, on others 2, 3, or 4 items will go up. Very rarely more than one post will be assigned to the same day.

I promise to publish at least one core item a week on this blog; that item will be published on a (virtual) Friday. These core items always contain some original content, such as code or data analysis, that goes beyond pure commentary. These items are always of the first or second type listed above.

Beginning on 14 July, I’m following a schedule on which I write about FM 3-24 (the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency field manual) on Wednesday, and about whatever strikes my fancy on the other days. You’re still guaranteed something original on Fridays.

Thanks for reading.