Author Archives: matt

So the sun’s shining today and the skies are clear. If this was back home, I’d be saying that the temperature reached double-digits today; that doesn’t make so much sense where I am, but it’s true nonetheless. I’ve been getting … Continue reading →

Some moron in a minivan managed to reverse into the front of my car today. What happened was they realised that they were in a drive-through lane, or possibly they knew that already and realised that they didn’t want to … Continue reading →

Hey all. Back from Florida; I’d posted an entry from the conference (see below), but due to some quirk of Blogger it hasn’t shown up until now. It was, I think, a good conference. I’ve got three new research projects … Continue reading →

Just a quick update for anyone who’s started depending on regular Tuesday Nutshell fixes and were perturbed by the radio silence yesterday. Currently in Florida at a math conference; I’ll be posting a fuller account of my adventures here a … Continue reading →

The spring is taunting me. Every time I think winter’s over, the next day there’s multiple centimeters of snow on the ground. It’s a day of waiting, really. Next week’s my annual trip to the Southeastern Conference, which is (as … Continue reading →

So I’ve been asked to review a paper for a journal. This is not, in and of itself, a first; in fact, it’s the fifth such request of me in the past two years. The journal making this request of … Continue reading →

Anyone else notice that I mainly seem to update this site on Tuesdays? I got a paper through our library’s wonderful Document Delivery Service today. Rather than actually passing pieces of paper around, we get our documents on a website, … Continue reading →

Clevermonkey pointed me to the Safari Bookmark Exporter, solving the main issue I was having with switching from Safari to Firefox. Huzzah! So now I’m-a using Firefox. The great advantage it enjoys (aside from apparently being much less of a … Continue reading →

My first cup of kawphy in any given day is a freebie. Well, I still have to pay for it, probably, but I don’t have to exert myself unduly to get it. If it develops that further kawphy is warranted, … Continue reading →

As I’ve mentioned before, I work on a G5 iMac. Supposed to be blazingly fast, right? I mean, reasonably good processor, reasonably sleek OS, what’s not to like? And yet, I’m constantly seeing delays when switching between tasks. It could … Continue reading →