It has been over twelve years since I last wrote to my blog, ending with a letter to my recently deceased brother. While my writing frequency had already dwindled during graduate school as depicted in Figure 1, Daniel’s death ended my blog writing. I had little desire to write …

This is my first pelican post using markdown. I have yet to import all my old blog entries as I first need to make sure I can make it work from scratch.

Below is the skeleton python program that I always start out with:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os …