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Major changes in my semester! After speaking with my advisor, I’ve decided to drop all classes that aren’t mandatory to graduate. Hence, three of my “fun” classes are dropped from the schedule, and my new calendar looks pretty bare. This will give me more time to work in the Lab and on my thesis, though, so all in all this is very good news.

Is it clear that most of this site is non-blog content? All the really important links from an e-portfolio perspective (activities, articles, courses, research, etc.) are on the right, but I’m afraid that certain VIP visitors might be missing this information and seeing this site only as a fairly weak blog. I want to know if the areas of the site that interest me the most are getting an appropriate amount of space in the display, and I don’t necessarily want to run experiments to find out. Please drop a line.

I changed my blog theme again, because I wanted to. I made the Martian landscape my header image because it is pretty, and I want to walk on it one day, and my name derives from the planet.

Yesterday was the first day of school. I started off by going to the wrong building for my first class, then falling down the stairs, and then when I finally arrived at the right building, finding out that my first class was cancelled. Still, I’m glad to be back.

From Wired: Don’t Even Think About Lying

Maybe there will still be an opportunity for some legal scholarship on this before 2009. It looks really interesting.

UPDATE: More on this from the Volokh Conspiracy.