The obligatory first post of this blog. While “Hello World!” codes are often the simplest of programs used to illustrate the basic syntax of a language, I found the task of making this post quite tedious and annoying. In true grad student fashion I waited too long to make this website and the multitude of layout/tooling choices did not help either. I ended up nicking the excellent design of Kieran Healy’s homepage and found it easy to setup and muck around with.