Introducing Our New Blogger, Mickey Rowe

by Mickey Rowe, UCSB research biologist.

This is officially my first blog contribution. I'm no neophyte on the net; e-mail has been my primary means of communication since 1988.

I wrote my first web pages in the early 90s, when Mosaic was the only web browser anyone used.

And "anyone" wasn't a whole lot of people...

But I've resisted the blogosphere until now. I've generally felt my life to be full enough not to go looking for such added distractions. I was drawn to the Central Coast News Mission by another local blogger. The local aspect has reeled me in...

Many of you may know my name from having seen it attached to letters to the editors of The Lompoc Record. Generally when I write there, I'm responding to something someone else wrote.

Here, I'd like to initiate conversations. But I'll save that for later. Since blogging has developed a history, I'll bow to the wisdom of some who have come before me. In particular, David Ciaffardini suggests that blogs that aren't kept short aren't read.

I'm unlikely to keep all of my posts short. But I'll try to reveal myself and my concerns mostly in small, tolerable doses. I hope to give readers some things they'll like and some they won't... but above all, my aim is to make people think. I hope some will return the favor. --Mickey P. Rowe, mrowe at lifesci.ucsb.edu.