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Having read a post by Dorothy Bishop on academic blogging, I've been inspired to start up this blog. For a while now I've been meaning to start one up simply to share code and hacks with others, as I've really found others' posts on technical topics really useful. However, as pointed out in the post, blogging is a great way of communicating directly with the public, and for communicating research that wouldn't make it into a journal. So let's give it a go and see what happens...