Ummm, Hello Internet!

My name is Alan, and in what is probaly some kind of publicity stunt, Ian has asked me to start writing here. Maybe THZ will eventually be some kind of press empire. Someday. World Domination and stuff.  In the mean time, a little about me: I’m an Atheist and an Engineering Physicist (and about as much of a nerd as the two usually seem to imply, of course).  Unlke Ian, I dig on the engineering side of the discipline, specifically Nanotechnology. Expect some erratic posting on the subject. It might even be educational!