Around four years ago I started the writing of my PhD thesis using a LaTeX template provided by the university. But the template was far from perfect - sometimes I get obsessed with how things look like. There were two major issues with the template: a) the official visual style of the university was not present in the LaTeX template; and b) the typesetting for mathematics and some other environments were quite limited and basic. Consequently, I spent same amount of time on styling the thesis as I spent on writing the actual content :D.

Over the years I have been setting up many weblogs and CMS sites for people. When WordPress came out and everyone was migrating to it, I also created a blog for myself. I did so with Drupal and few other platforms, but none of those weblogs survived beyond couple of posts. You see the pattern here; the focus has been on technology rather than the content. Some days ago, I got interested in Jekyll and decided to give it a go after many years of no web development. Meanwhile I started writing some notes about typesetting in TeX for a colleague, which looked like a good material for publishing. Seeing a promotion from GoDaddy for $2 domain registration completed the picture. I registered “randomdoctor.com” and started yet another blog. Hopefully this one will last for a while :) I wrote a short biography of myself that you may read, or continue with the following notes about setting up the blog.