To ring in the new year, I'm happy to announce the addition of a new feature I've been meaning to put up for quite some time. In the right column underneath the Picture of the Day feature, you'll find the five most recent updates I've posted on twitter. If you aren't familiar with it, twitter is a social messaging utility that lets people make short blog entries not only from the web but also from mobile devices. The advantage of adding my twitter updates to this page is that I often post updates about what we're doing at a given moment from my mobile phone, something I cannot do for "full" blog posts like the one whose text you're reading now. Some of these posts involve what Rowan is doing, others are a bit more tech-y about my work. Anyway, they're there for your entertainment value, so enjoy. At first the twitter posts might seem strange because they are strictly limited in length to even be sent via text message from a mobile phone. A welcome break from my occasional verbosity? Surely not...