Archive for May, 2008
Carnival of Mathematics #33 is up at Walking Randomly. Worth re-installing Firefox for (the local Mordacs have decreed that our former Computers are now Workstations; we can’t make changes from one session to the next …)!
This texblog.wordpress.com page may prove useful; already it’s led me to the Math for the Masses entry of the wordpress.com blog (to which I’m currently finding it impossible to link directly). God knows, it would be much more useful if the window that one edits posts in wasn’t so frustratingly fraught with fight-the-user misfeatures. I damn near quit forever last week in creating this short post in the Calc III blog; I found out just in time that cut-and-paste was damaging the code invisibly (and so, in order to recover half-an-hour’s work, I re-entered a bunch of code manually). I already knew that entering plain text that I’d created in MS Wordpad was a losing move because of (what I sorely regret being able to call) the usual carriage-return issues. You’d think that at least in this context—editing, not only HTML, but 
the livingston review 