Dave and I are ecstatic to be able to finally move to our new hosting service for the blog today. You won’t have to change any bookmarks or anything as the main page will still have the same address and all the old posts are still reachable by their old links. There are three major [...]

No new posts today as I have been and will be bogged down with preparations for the blog’s formal move to our new host.  There are a lot of things to take care of before tomorrow. Tomorrow ends the “dark ages” at Camels With Hammers as we abandon our black and orange scheme entirely for [...]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of you who keep reading and who commenting on Camels With Hammers and who keep sharing links with your friends and with all sorts of social media sites.  Running this blog over this past year and watching your support and enthusiasm for the blog grow has been [...]

So, here’s the deal. We’re in the process of upgrading the site to improve the blog in a number of ways, hopefully by our year anniversary as “Camels With Hammers” (June 22). The most visible and obvious change coming is a total aesthetic redesign. Essentially, we’ll be turning on the lights and ditching all the [...]

Last week I submitted my dissertation to my adviser and my readers.  This weekend I am tying up some remaining loose ends and preparing a 25 page summary version of the dissertation to submit to my examiner, a member of my committee who reads only this abbreviated version of the dissertation rather than the entire [...]

Hey everyone!   Sorry for doing much less original writing and letting some valuable reader comments pile up unaddressed over the last week.  About this time last week I was overcome with lethargy which by the next day revealed itself to be the first onset of sickness.  So, I blogged it easy last week while [...]