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Comments temporary disabled

  • November 19th, 2007

Due to a spectacular spam storm incited by akismet.com being unreachable from the webserver, I have decided to globally shut off commenting for the time being.

This should be a temporary state, and I hope that the akismet issue solves itself soon.

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Advertising policy

  • August 1st, 2007

Today I received an email kind of convincing me that my blog gets seen. It offered me $35 to put up an add for a phone service on one of my old blog posts.

What differentiated this offer from all other spam I get was that it was actually written well enough, and tailored enough, that I believe this guy would even go through with it. Only …

I am not interested.

I run this blog because I like running it. I do system admin myself too. The domain name is mine since my family wants it, and my parents chip in. The net connection also is something that the family chips in on, and is handled without significant cost.

All in all, I do not NEED ads to keep this place up and running.

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Slumps and crunches

  • July 12th, 2007

This term of teaching ends next week.

When I got back from T’bilisi, just over a month ago, I had research leads that I expect will end in three different publications.

I was slated with writing one LARP report for a swedish gaming magazine, and a series of various popular mathematics articles for the local student-run mathematics magazine here.

All in all, very many things converged this June/July for me.

It has started paying off though - the gaming article is published, and yesterday I submitted the first of the T’bilisi articles to the Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures as well as to the arXiv.

I now am listed on the arXiv with three papers, out of which one is already published, one is rejected (not unjustly so), and one is just submitted for review.

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iTeX2MML not activated

  • April 6th, 2007

I just tried installing the iTeX2MML plugin from Jacques Distler. This is what the n-Category Cafe use for their mathematics, and it gives a neated display than the LaTeXrender plugin I’ve been using so far.

It turns out, though, that
1. The plugin jumps on quoted perl code, interpreting it as mathematics. Bad things ensue.
2. It needs valid XHTML, which has not been a priority so far - and trying to validate it, the validator chokes on the &’s in my LaTeX array expressions for LaTeXrender.

Oh bugger. No iTeX and MathML for me.

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Announcing the Carnival of Mathematics

  • February 2nd, 2007

Alon Levy, over at Abstract Nonsense has just announced the first issue of a brand new Blog Carnival: the Carnival of Mathematics.

Go take a look. Submit your own blog posts. And then check it out in a week - the carnival is scheduled for the 9th.

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Hello, Planet Haskell

  • September 14th, 2006

Since the content rate of haskell-related posts is going up, the feed of this blog will get added to Planet Haskell. Hi, Planet!

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Weekly Report: Back up again

  • July 23rd, 2006

The weekly reports have been dead for a while. Reason? The blog has been dead for a while.

Hardware woes

The old computer running this website had some problem all of a sudden about 3 weeks ago. These problems appeared as a complete lockdown of the system - no response to anything. So my brother - with me on the other side of a telephone, tried to reboot the box; but couldn’t get it back up online again. He was headed out to a LARP anyway within hours - and so couldn’t really do much more about it.

Right.

End result? I joined forces with a good friend of mine; we split hardware costs for a slick new box - an Asus barebone box with a 64bit processor and a gig of RAM. It received the harddrive and network interface from the old box, and was with that good to go - only .. processor architecture changed; and so for optimal performance, it’d be a nice idea to actually use a new system install that took advantage of the extra available bitwidth.

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Admin: Wordpress 2.0

  • June 19th, 2006

This blog just migrated to WP 2.0. Should anything be odd, please notify me.

The migration was to a large portion motivated by commenting problems I’ve been told about. I hope that my readers out there will be able to comment now; possibly even without logging in!

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Anti-spam measures

  • February 21st, 2006

After having a visit of some 5+ spams (I’m known by the spam bots! Is that good?) I just installed a captcha-like plugin. It requires some basic arithmetic skills from y’all; but on the other hand, I -am- a math blog after all.

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New blog found!

  • February 10th, 2006

Stumbling across the blog Epsilon-Delta with a brilliant article series on mathematics as key to effective programming. This in itself merits a closer look at the blog; which in turn merits it a place in my blogroll. Go and read it you too!

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New directions!

  • December 6th, 2005

The byline is probably the most basic motivation for the blog. I want a place to write where I can expound upon themes I don’t write in my LiveJournal - where I write articles rather than notes, where I publish creations I happened to make (I’ve started calligraphy - expect to see scans coming) and which I can customize to a higher degree. (Anybody tried to write mathematics in LJ? With the LaTeX plugins to Wordpress blogging maths goes like a dream!)

I hope I will also actually gain a reader or two. Probably should get a technorati tagging plugin running to get this off its feet too - but that’ll have to wait a bit.

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Michi is a recent PhD working in homological algebra. This blog is his outlet for texts with some manner of thought put into them. Over at his LiveJournal intimate details and streams of consciousness might be found.
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