Scan paper to file and save as(equation.jpg) then upload to blog?

Will come out in picture format…so? Using Haloscan(a new feature-a little window) you can upload your own equations as a “url link” to look.

Haloscan can be inserted given the html language in your current discussion board design.

Wordpress, has same features in discussion area??

Just a thought.

I’ll be able to tex…. but not so easy for the commenters.

The problem is that the nicest plugin I know about to allow LaTeX to appear easily on wordpress (it is called LaTexrender) is trivial to install, but relies upon the server running wordpress to be able to run things like latex, imagemagik, and pdftex in background. That very much depends upon the host computer: If you’re not hosting your blog yourself, you’re in trouble. As I am naievely expecting a reaonable amount of traffic to come to this blog, I decided not to host on my own computers… Asfar as I know, my host does not give me access to those applications (and does not have them all installed) and so I’m unable to provide that service. On my other two blogs (which are more private), I host them on my own computers whree I do have those installed. Therefore on those, I and those who comment on those blogs, can LaTeX to their heart’s content. So here, when I talk about my work, if I will be using equations extensively, I’ll probably write the post on one of my other blogs, and then move it over.

I’ll look into some work-arounds of the problems I described. I should also mention that it is not that hard to find good examples of LaTeX on blogs. See Jacques Distler’s blog for a start. He’s been doing excellent work on the issue, but I do not know how much of that work (in MathML) -if any- is applicable to Wordpress. And I don’t know if it ever will be since I gather from earlier remarks of his that he pretty much hates Wordpress. But maybe others have done things. I will look into it… And if anyone has more wisdom on this….. chime in.

Cheers,

-cvj

Thanks for the info about why you chose the name. Given my background, I guess that I’m more used to the phrase “asymptopia,” particularly with reference to conformal infinity in space-time (Penrose, Hawking, Wheeler and others used this term almost exclusively in the sixties and seventies to describe the various limits of space-times; more recently, John Stewart wrote a book which focussed a great deal on the asymptotic structure of space-time, referring to such things as “asymptopia”). Regardless, you’ve picked a pretty cool name for the new blog.

On a different note, assuming that you will sometimes post about your work, have you looked into incorporating LaTeX into the blog? I’m still surprised at the difficulty people have in including mathematical typesetting into blogs. It looks like instant messaging with Adium has no difficulties in this respect (thanks for turning me on to that in a post at CV by the way), but there are still very few blogs that manage to pull this off.

Long time since I’ve heard from you. I don’t have any more free time than anyone else. If anything, I have way less. I just choose differently how I use my time.

So do my clones.

Cheers,

-cvj

Seriously, is there more than one of you, or do you not sleep, or is it just that I’m too much of a slacker to comprehend your energy?

I hope you will also post more and go in depth on the Categorically Not site events as well.

And “asymptotia” rolls off my tongue more readily than does “asymptopia” - great name!

Best,
E

She probably put the call through immediately we landed and she got out of earshot…..

-cvj

Wow… I just sort of wanted a fake word that sounded nice to my (also admittedly british by the way) ears. “asymptopia\” sounds like a disease to me, perhaps an extreme form or long sightedness that means you can only focus on infinity (!) while “asymptotia\” sounds more like a place or state of mind or being. I googled your word and found that I chose well. The name has been used a lot for a journal, a utopian society (hmmmm, see above vision problem), and so forth.

I think I just dodged that bullet….. maybe.

-cvj

P.S. Most importantly, another downstroke instead of an upstroke would ruin the balance of the logo, which would not do at all.

It’s great to hear that you’ve decided to set up your own blog. CV has been noticeably dull these past couple of months given that you’ve posted a great deal less there. Since you invariably posted the most interesting stuff, I’m looking forward to seeing what you can do here.

Best wishes,

dd

Good to see that you have your personal blog. I rather enjoyed your non-scientific posts over at CV. You have a gift for enthousiasm and vivid descriptions that shoud not be underestimated. However, I agreed that it was somewhat overshadowing the rest of the CV postings. So having this blog around seems like a good compromise!

I’ll be reading this with alot of interest in the future.

Take care,

Dimi

-cvj