Lately I’ve been getting pretty overwhelmed by the amount of work that is in my “TODO List”. One of the most serious problems is with professional responsibility in the form of reviewing journal articles. I have two papers that need to be reviewed in the next few days, and two that are already overdue. This along with getting my own work done and writing papers (which is also going far too slow). It definitely doesn’t help that I have some personal travel that might be coming up real soon too!

I am definitely making progress on everything I am supposed to be doing, but very frequently the sheer magnitude of stuff that is left to do makes me feel like I’m going too slow. I’m still learning to manage my time better, but in the mean time I guess it means a lot more late nights! And unfortunately for the first time, I’ve had to excuse myself from a paper that was sent to me for a review. I just hope I’ll handle things a little better in 2011.

I had been hosting my CV on a site called scribd.com and embedding it into this site using their flash plugin. Some of my friends mentioned that the plugin was not looking right on their machines. I recently spent a lot of time updating my resume, and the new version is now hosted directly on this site as a PDF file. If you are curious, you can check it out here.

Saw this in Whole Foods today - couldn’t resist posting it.

Seems it takes a lot of commitment to maintain a blog with meaningfully regular entries. It’s been more than a year since I last posted anything, and how life has changed!

• We had a beautiful daughter (Aditi) last year, and she turned one last month!
• I graduated from Hopkins with my Ph.D (finally!)
• Accepted a post-doc position with the Earth and Environmental Sciences group at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Aditi and Udaya joined me in Los Alamos recently and we are slowly adjusting to the new place.

Anyways, I spotted the “Wordpress for Android” app today and downloaded it with very noble intentions. Lets see how that works out.

The first commercial scale sequestration plant in the USA (a Basin Electric coal-fired plant in North Dakota) has been approved a loan of $300 miliion for plant modification. The capture carbon dioxide will be stored in oil-bearing formations. When completed, it is expected to sequester about 3000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each day, which is comparable to the Statoil operation at Sleipner in Norway. The press release is available online.