January 2017: new site, new style

Hi. I've decided a couple of things:(1) The blog will not be updated on my UC Irvine site (although you can still see it here). Instead it will be hosted at prafter.com.(2) I will aim the text of my blog posts towards a wider audience. People for whom "isotopes" and "phytoplankton" and "foraminifera" are not commonly used words.(3) I won't be writing all the HTML myself or make the site in Dreamweaver (like the original prafter.com from February 2002 to November 2011. (By the way, I might provide some flashbacks to some of these pages, when we were all much younger...)