Admittedly, I'm horrible at keeping a record of the things I do on a daily basis in the lab and on my computer. I'm supposedly writing and detailing my activities in a lab notebook, much like this one. Of course, the problem is I rarely do so, and if on the off chance I accidentally write something, it's usually awfully sparse in the all-important details.
This is a huge problem. I have laboratory ADD. I rarely complete an entire study in one continuous orgy of experiments; I tend to have multiple studies going at any one time, and I'll complete an experiment and immediately go on to another, probably completely unrelated experiment. When I later come back to study #1, I'll completely forget what it is I did and will be forced to waste an inordinate amount of time trying to retrace my footsteps... If I can.
Enter technology. Notebooks and manually writing with a stick that leaves ink on paper are out of fashion. The new hotnesses are computers and blogs. I intend this blog to be an electronic notebook to be filled with the things that I learn and do in my daily activities, and with the random bits of news and information that interests me. I don't intend for this thing to be read by other people, but without the threat of being terribly, terribly judged by anonymous strangers, this blog will probably be a failure. I also don't intend on posting minute details of my experiments, but I would like to write about the big pictures and rough methodologies. And, of course, because I'm a graduate student, I will complain at length about my lot in life.
