Meta-posts about this site: changes to the blogOhm engine, facelifts, things like that.
2009.06.1211:42:48 EDTIntroducing my new blog: Asking QuestionsAfter thinking about it for a while, I've decided that I will get a WordPress account. Most of the reasons are given in this post from a few months ago. In any case, this will not mean the death of bl
2009.03.1912:02:42 EDTGowers's experiment and future of blogOhmA remarkable on-line collaboration in mathematics happened recently. Tim Gowers initiated a fairly modest program some 6 weeks ago, trying to get a heuristic justification (or refutation) on how one s
2008.03.1819:07:46 EDTUPSThank goodness for uninterruptable power supply. According to my sister there had just been a sort power-outage at home, lasting roughly half and hour. My investment in an 650 VA model APC is looking
2005.12.0817:23:34 ESTRSS Module addedI've written a preliminary RSS-module for blogOhm. It outputs RSS 2.0. The feed can be read here. Please let me know if it doesn't work on your RSS feed reader. I am a bit weary of embedded HTML chara
2005.11.1623:37:41 ESTModifications/testing postI am rewriting part of the blogOhm engine. I've noticed that only with the small number (70 or so) of entries, my bash based blogOhm system is running into some bottlenecks. One of the things that is
2005.10.0320:26:16 EDTUpdate to website; Cooking JournalThe spider mystery has been solved: it is a wolf spider. Am in the middle of some renovation on the website: the "papers" and "teaching" sections will be up shortly, probably within the next 10 hours.
2005.08.2601:46:54 EDTStupid!I am so tempted to use profanity at this moment. I needed to write a batch conversion script to convert the entries from my old website to a way that is readable by the new blogOhm engine. So I opened
2005.08.2000:36:09 EDTJournalWoke up this morning with a really bad aftertaste of a bizarre dream. S knows all about it, and why I shouldn't include it in my journal entry. Note to self: the details of the dream is in a e-mail co
2005.08.1617:35:53 EDTSome small changes and updatesSome small changes are made to the presentation: The home page is re-formatted using tables. There are some rendering problems in all major browsers--none of them handle position: float quite the sam
2005.08.1605:08:54 EDTThe Rebirth of CoolFinally Done! Well, mostly anyway. After three days, totaling about 30 hours of coding, I have finally finished the shell-script back-ends for the new blogOhm version. Tentatively it is numbered blogO
2005.05.2812:28:00 EDTmisc. personal news and downtime to serverGrrr.... don't feel like blogging now. I am jet-lagged from coming back from Taiwan just 36 hours ago. And S seems to have caught bronchitis. So I am not really up to doing anything just now. I just w
Anime/Manga (3) News, reviews, recent purchase, thoughts, and pretty much everything about Anime and Manga.
Books (7) Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
Chinese (33) Posts written in Chinese, posts about the Chinese language or culture, or posts concerning my experience being of Chinese descent. (以中文寫作, 或是內容有關於中國語言及文化, 和我個人的華人經驗的文章.)
Creations (12) My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
German (1) Posts written in German. It will be empty for a while, until I become passable writing in German.
French (1) Posts written in French. (Les entreés écrivées en français.)
Religion (1) My thoughts about religion in general, specific news about the various religions.
Japanese (1) Posts written in Japanese. It will be sparse until my Japanese becomes better.
Linky! (55) Boing-boing-like entries which links to fun stuff I found on the web (many of them through boing-boing).
Linux (22) Things related to the Linux operating systems. Particularly prominent on things about Gentoo, my preferred flavor.
Mathematics (59) Posts about mathematics. Upcoming conferences, conference descriptions, papers I am reading, papers I am writing, pre-prints, all sorts of goodies. Also some of my thoughts about mathematical education and such.
Movies (1) Movies I saw recently. Reviews. Movies I plan to see in the future. Expectations.
Music (10) Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
Politics (7) Things that, unfortunately, I have to deal with as an American in a democratic republic, but about which I really wish I could just stop caring.