Monthly Archives: February 2005

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 →

So I signed up for GMail some time ago. And I got three invitations I could send out; I think I used two of them. After sending out my second, I got five more invitations; these have all been happily … Continue reading →

I was working on a research problem in between watching my room full of students struggle with histograms and standard deviations, and then I suddenly saw it. The particulars of the “it” in question are probably of no interest to … Continue reading →