Upon Reflection

Here's a simple way to make your website disappear from the web:

1. Burn out the motherboard of your computer, thus requiring a serious repair.
2. Lose data as a result, making the reconstruction of your site difficult.
3. Make sure the address of your site is changed from phy1139-862.rit.edu to koberlein.rit.edu with no prior warning to your fan club.
4. Success!

As Walter Cronkite would say, "That's the way it is."

It has been a year since my system crashed, so rather than reconstruct the past I've decided to begin again. I will write about life and science. If gentle readers have suggestions for topics, I'll add those to the queue. From there we will see how it goes.

I learned a great deal with version 1.0, particularly from Liz Lawley on blogging in general and from Jacques Distler about adding mathematics to a site. Hopefully those lessons will result in a better version 2.0. There is also some consolation in the fact that my system is now rebuilt from the ground up, and therefore much less hacked. In particular, the site is now constructed with MTOS. I'm still working on making it fully compatible with MathML.

Expect me when you see me.