This post is as much for me as anyone else (since I don't have some snazzy centralised bookmarky thing), but this 1998 paper has on page 2 a nice map of mathematics. In case you were wondering, I won't be trying to read the paper; I can remember and understand most of the bottom half of that diagram and the paper seems to be about linking the two big boxes at the top.
I'm in two minds about recommending Scent of a Woman. On the one hand, it's a great film. Mainly because Al Pacino is excellent, but various other elements are pretty good too. The downside I'm about to rant about, in spoiler fashion.
I've now taken down the sidebar list of Bloghuh? participants, and finished off the Epilogue. Those who missed it should go to that post and have a look around the links, while there's still a chance of tracking down some of the content.Many thanks to Blue Witch and everyone else who helped make it so interesting. See you all again later for something equally foolhardy ;)
I'm on the bandwagon of making posts with a snow pun in the title. I don't actually have anything to say, but many others (including Annie, Dan and Blue Witch) have nice pictures or articles about the snow. Well, BW is talking about fuel, but it's still a worthwhile read.
At this rate I'm going to need a 'Weather' category.
At this rate I'm going to need a 'Weather' category.
OK, so it didn't really take me 10 years to get home, but I left work at just gone 5, ran a 20 minute errand, and got home after 7:30. It was the wind, you see.
I'm installing the expansion to WoW. I swear the installer just gave the following status, briefly:
Look out for it if you get TBC: it's near the beginning of Disc 4 (4CDs?!? For an expansion?!?), somewhere between 80 and 90% progress. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
Well, crazy maybe, but someone tell me I'm not imagining it.
If it still seems worth it when I get out of WoW, I'll tell you about my crazy journey home. With any luck, it won't...
Installing 'RunOnce.wtf'...
Look out for it if you get TBC: it's near the beginning of Disc 4 (4CDs?!? For an expansion?!?), somewhere between 80 and 90% progress. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
Well, crazy maybe, but someone tell me I'm not imagining it.
If it still seems worth it when I get out of WoW, I'll tell you about my crazy journey home. With any luck, it won't...
It's a bit blowy out. Nothing like Gordon was experiencing a while back, I'm sure (although that's mainly because I tend to assume that statistically it's likely that none of my circumstances are ever particularly extreme, in the grand scheme of things).
I was reminded, as I walked down the street for some lunch, of something I was told at primary school. As a small child (relatively speaking) we were studying the Beaufort scale, and a symptom for one level was that it became hard to walk into the wind. I briefly wondered whether it was different now that I was more massive (relative to my cross-sectional area), but decided that since it was only a descriptive indicator and I couldn't even remember which force it applied to, that was something of a moot point.
It's amazing what you can recall when something a little unusual happens.
It's also amazing how Wikipedia and other online sources demystify things (even a quick glance at the table from the link above took most of the steam out of this post). Maybe one of these days I'll try a new policy of not looking things up the moment they interest me.
I was reminded, as I walked down the street for some lunch, of something I was told at primary school. As a small child (relatively speaking) we were studying the Beaufort scale, and a symptom for one level was that it became hard to walk into the wind. I briefly wondered whether it was different now that I was more massive (relative to my cross-sectional area), but decided that since it was only a descriptive indicator and I couldn't even remember which force it applied to, that was something of a moot point.
It's amazing what you can recall when something a little unusual happens.
It's also amazing how Wikipedia and other online sources demystify things (even a quick glance at the table from the link above took most of the steam out of this post). Maybe one of these days I'll try a new policy of not looking things up the moment they interest me.
Well, the week is over, and the participants (linked in the sidebar) have amassed a veritable treasure trove of mystifying truths and such things. Apologies for the scarcity of posts around here, but I didn't want to use the event as an excuse to rant (I do that anyway, and generally without excuse); I recognise also that the posts I did make suit a particular subset of my regular readership (and hence probably a similarly small proportion of the blog-reading public at large).I'll leave the sidebar links up until I'm sure they're the full list, then I'll preserve them in this post. The list seems to match Blue Witch's: I realised after some consideration that she has 20 vs. my 19 because she listed herself and I didn't ;-). You should go around and catch up with the posts; I know there are a few out there that I didn't see while it was going.
And now back to normal programming: an intermittent (nay, sporadic) stream of waffle and technobabble...
Oh, and regarding your last comment BW: you ain't seen nothin' yet :-p
Bloghuh? is a collaborative blogging project running throughout this week, encouraging participants to write posts on things that mystify them. The rapidly growing list of participants is in the sidebar, and the post that started it all can be found here.Computers mystify me. Which is a little worrying, since I spend all my working time and most of my leisure time using them. More worrying if you consider the fact that I'm one of the many people responsible in part for demystifying them for other people (or at the least, getting them to do what they're told).
I have my new toys, the components of my next experiment:
2 small ethernet switches
2 PCI ethernet cards
A 2GB USB flash gizmo, but that's not part of the current project, more because one day I will find a use for one and the odds are it'll be some emergency, and not having one will be very bad news.
No doubt I will have given up by next week.
2 small ethernet switches
2 PCI ethernet cards
A 2GB USB flash gizmo, but that's not part of the current project, more because one day I will find a use for one and the odds are it'll be some emergency, and not having one will be very bad news.
No doubt I will have given up by next week.
I just found something very strange.
One of the forums I administrate has a new user and a new post, saying:
It's all a bit weird. Personally I have a policy against deleting accounts that haven't done anything obviously wrong, but there's definitely something fishy (hence the lack of links in this post).
One of the forums I administrate has a new user and a new post, saying:
Give me link to SEO software (promotion, advertisement, etc.). I'm need it to promote my new e-shop.Now, normally it goes the other way around. A new user appears and posts, telling me how to find SEO software (or eastern European flowers, or naked celebrities), or just sits around without posting in order to try and get more links to the web address in their forum profile. The former gets their post deleted as soon as I see it, followed by their account, and potentially an IP ban. The latter gets deleted eventually, but since I tinkered with the board to hide post-less users from all the lists, leaving them there doesn't help them and doesn't hurt my users.
Thanks.
It's all a bit weird. Personally I have a policy against deleting accounts that haven't done anything obviously wrong, but there's definitely something fishy (hence the lack of links in this post).
Bloghuh? is a collaborative blogging project running throughout this week, encouraging participants to write posts on things that mystify them. The rapidly growing list of participants is in the sidebar, and the post that started it all can be found here.My quest for something mystifying, interesting and not one of my normal rants about the world (because let's be honest, on balance life isn't so bad, for me at least), has led me to something that may go down like a lead balloon. But that's the case with all my posts, so let's get on with it.
I've found something that amazes me. Mystify, yes, but loosely (as was allowed in the Bloghuh? mission statement). More to the point, it's something I expect to mystify some of you. Have a look at this document (PDF, ~45kB). After the more link are a few random thoughts.
I'm behind the times, of course, but for a Monday-Sunday event, Tuesday is less tardy than I could be. Without blaming/crediting anyone in particular (*cough* Blue Witch seems to be a ringleader *cough*) there's a community effort to come together and make some themed posts, the theme being 'things that mystify me'. It's all explained here.I'm not yet sure if I'm going to participate, but I'll tag along and see what I can come up with. One of the features is that all the participants are listing the others, so I'm about to knock up another sidebar roll to put them in. Then I shall get onto thinking about what mystifies me. With any luck I can come up with something positively mystifying, rather than just one of my normal rants about unbelievably unreasonable/thoughtless/stupid behaviour. Especially since Kitchen Witch has already covered the one that normally bugs me most (go there quickly, I can't work out how to link to a particular post...).
Update: Although I said I wasn't sure I was to participate, BW has decreed that I am, and added me to the list. Apparently there are others hoping to get in time permitting, but I have been committed, so to speak ;-)
I should probably now put a link to myself in the sidebar. The mind boggles.
Via Dragon, there is a need to make links like this: Nicholas Hellen. If you don't know why, then this link is recommended reading: Nicholas Hellen. The Google trick is already working (and my page rank is likely very poor) but maybe it helps to cement it.
I said the other day that I wasn't an atheist. I phrased it as a 'thing that you didn't know about me', which may look odd - giving such a broad and negative answer - but it's generally been the case the people have assumed I am. I was tempted to follow up with a little explanation, but I decided to leave it at that and see if anyone asked (thanks Matt ;-)
Here, in all of it's verbose and tiresome glory, is the follow-up.
Here, in all of it's verbose and tiresome glory, is the follow-up.
Annie, through the magic of her blogroll matchmaking, has sent me to read Katy at Everything is Electric. The brilliant post there on resolutions has inspired me to get back over here and write up my list of fanciful ambitions.
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