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tlambert | December 22, 2006I knew if I kept blogging long enough, I'd eventually win one of those awards.
goodmath | December 15, 2006GM/BM has been pretty slow overall this week, both in new posts and in my responses to comments on previous posts. It was both bigtime deadline week on my project at work; and a very bad week for family health issues.
My dad, who I've mentioned on this blog a lot of times because of the fact that he's the one who
got me started on math and geekery, has had some serious medical trouble lately, and he wound up
in the hospital this week with gangrene and a related blood infection. So I've been running to NJ to see him and help my mom, and back to NY to my own family and work. That hasn't left…
goodmath | December 13, 2006
Don't forgot: GM/BM is a finalist in the weblog competition for best science blog. I've got no chance of winning, but there's a slim chance that I could make third or fourth. You can vote once per day.
goodmath | December 9, 2006
So, Goodmath/Badmath was nominated for a weblog award for the best science blog. I was actually planning on ignoring it for two reasons. First, Pharyngula was nominated in the same category, and there is absolutely no way that I can *hope* to complete with PZ. And second, the Weblogs are kind of goofy, with very strange voting rules (for example, you're allowed to vote once per day).
But people keep emailing me and asking why I haven't said anything. So, if you feel like voting for this
blog, please do. Maybe I'll manage to come in third or fourth :-)
And many thanks to the folks who…
goodmath | November 25, 2006As you may have noticed, lately, I've been fascinated by Haskell. I haven't done anything much in it until quite recently; it's been sitting in my to-do queue for a long time. This weekend, I was hacking away on a Haskell implementation of an interesting (but currently unimplemented) language from the Esolang wiki. For the most part, it went astonishingly smoothly, until I got to the point of putting things together, when I ran into a problem combining two monads, which is one of the typically difficult problems in real Haskell programming.
What surprised me a bit when I hit this is how hard…
tlambert | November 7, 2006Tim Dunlop has a new blog called Blogocracy at News Limited's news.com.au site. Any thoughts that this might make him go easy on News Limited's John Howard brown-nose squad have been dispelled by this post.
In other blogging news Andrew Dessler and Coby Beck have joined Gristmill.
goodmath | November 3, 2006As you may have heard from some of the other ScienceBlogs, our SciBling Shelley Batts, of [Retrospectacle](http://www.scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/) is competing for a scholarship being
given to bloggers. Shelley's a great writer, and on her way to becoming a great scientist. Please head
over to the [Blogger Scholarships voting](http://www.scholarships-ar-us.org/blog/2006/10/31/vote-for-the-winner-o…),
take a look at the finalist, and if you agree with us SBers that Shelley deserves to be the winner, put in a vote for her!
goodmath | October 23, 2006Sorry for the sudden silence on the blog. My computer died on me yesterday, and so I've been rather cut off. I'm in the process of setting up my gorgeous brand new MacBookPro, and things should be getting back to normal pretty quickly, except that I lost a couple of prepared posts in the crash, so this week might be a bit slow around here.
goodmath | September 19, 2006Yes, it appears that I have won the great ScienceBlogs nerdoff/geekoff. [Janet announced the results yesterday][geekoff], and despite [much][orac-whines] [whining][pz-whines], I'm proud to say that I was the winner. There was some stiff competition, particularly from Orac, but in the end, no one could quite exceed my pathetic level of geekiness.
In answer to a question I've heard a couple of times: Janet called it a "Nerd-Off", but I've preferred to call it a "Geek-Off". I consider them roughly equivalent. Depending on where you are, geographically, I've found that the differences between…
goodmath | September 6, 2006A few of my recent posts here appear to have struck some nerves, and I've been
getting lots of annoying email containing the same questions, over and over again. So rather than reply individually, I'm going to answer them here in the hope that either (a) people will see the answers before send the question to me, and therefore not bother me; or (b) conclude that I'm an obnoxious asshole who isn't worth the trouble of writining to, and therefore not bother me. I suspect that (b) is more likely than (a), but hey, whatever works.
Answers beneath the fold.
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**Question**: *Why are you…
goodmath | August 26, 2006I'm leaving on vacation today. I'll be away for a week, with intermittent internet access. And even when I have access, I doubt I'll have much time to do blog-related stuff. I've scheduled a bunch of reposts of some of my favorite posts from the early days of _Goodmath, Badmath_ back when it lived on Blogger, so there'll be some fun stuff continuing to appear here even while I'm away.
Have a nice week!
tlambert | August 6, 2006John Quiggin reports on a new book containing scholarly articles on blogging.
One use I've found in teaching is to ditch my old clunky content management system and just use Wordpress to manage all the web content for my courses. Here's an example.
tlambert | August 2, 2006My one millionth visitor came from Vrije Universiteit in Belgium and was here for 38 minutes. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by.
goodmath | August 1, 2006The category theory series is finally winding down; I've got one topic I'd like to write about, and then I'll have had my fill of category theory for a while. I don't want to dive right in to another really deep topic like topology, so I'm looking for some subjects that people are interested in that can be covered in one or two posts. I could come up with some by myself (and probably will), but there are a lot of things like the zero article which so many people seemed to enjoy which I could write about, but probably wouldn't think of on my own.
So, what would you like to see one or two…
j7uy5 | July 22, 2006Long-time readers have noticed that I tend to hype free software and
resources from time to time.
After SB redesigned the skin for our blogs, I decided that I should
redo the banner. The old one was done in brown, specifically
to match the old page style. It looked dorky after the
redesign.
So, I used GIMP,
the GNU Image Manipulation Program, to design a new one. It's
a free program that runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, or Mac.
align="right" height="81" width="210">The
images were taken from an
href="http://www.cnsforum.com/resources/imagebank/">image
bank at CNS Forums, sponsored…
j7uy5 | July 19, 2006Ok, the ScienceBlogs new skin is up. It looks nice.
I was afraid that would happen. Now my banner looks
out of place. I will need to design a new one that uses
#f5ffe6 and/or #ebffcd. Maybe something with #ebffcd,
#ccffe0, #e0ccff, and #ffcceb. Life is nutty sometimes.
goodmath | July 7, 2006Just so folks know:
ScienceBlogs is experimenting with some new anti-spam stuff, which should do away with the need
for typekey. I've disabled typekey for Goodmath/Badmath, and we'll how it goes. If you've got cookies or cached data for the site, you might have a bit of trouble with comments for a day or two; if you do, please drop me an email (see the contact tab), and I'll see what I can do.
I'm also trying to figure out the right settings for the spam filter on the blog; if you post a comment and it doesn't appear immediately, it's probably because I don't have the settings right. Don't…
goodmath | July 6, 2006As you can see, there's a new site banner.
I got about a dozen submissions this time. They were all terrific, but something about this one just really grabbed me; it was absolutely exactly what I wanted. It was designed by Josh Gemmel. So Josh gets immortalized in the "about" tab of the blog.
Any of you folks who submitted a banner, if there's some topic you want me to write about, drop me a note. I'll try to do articles for all of you.
Thanks everyone for your time and effort!