Monthly Archives: March 2009

Dissertation Update: 171 pages

Today’s status:

  • 21,241 words
  • 171 pages
  • 31 floats (images/tables

Today I incorporated another study, and at one point the page count nearly hit 200. However, I realized that my (long) figure captions were severely bloating the list of figures, so I cut them out and did some other editing. That eliminated between twenty and thirty (!) pages. There remains now only one more study to be incorporated, although I still have to do the writing for that study. I also have to write bits and pieces throughout the dissertation and do some massive editing, but it’s nice to feel like I’m picking up some positive momentum on this thing. It’s also much easier to cut and rearrange than it is to generate text, so that part should be easier.

The Dissertation: It’s back on

The dissertation was set on the back burner for a few months while I worked on something else, but now it’s back on the front.

Today’s status:

  • 16,112 words
  • 139 pages
  • 20 floats (images/tables)

I added 17 of those floats today.

Site tweaks

I’ve been doing quite a bit of web programming lately for work, and now that my skills are sharpening up I’m tempted to do a totally custom theme for this site. You know, with all of my mythical free time.

In the mean time I applied a few tweaks, including a new background from the tiled backgrounds designer.