5 Years
Something else happened this past week: this blog turned 5.
While I cringe, a bit, looking back at my early posts, I’m kinda gratified that I’ve managed to keep this gig going as long as I have. I’ve certainly learned a lot: about Physics, about markup and — I like to think — about what makes a useful blog post.
Back then, Physics/Math blogs were not exactly thick on the ground. In fact, the genre pretty much didn’t exist. Today, the blogroll at Planet Musings is satisfyingly long.
And yet … I’m a little dissatisfied. Many of the meatiest, most exciting, entries on that list are actually in Mathematics: our own n-Category Café, Terrence Tao’s blog, the Secret Blogging Seminar …
That make me a little jealous. Damnit! We high energy theorists were here first! I think it’s time to try to reanimate the String Coffee Table. Any volunteers?
On a completely unrelated note, I learn, via Sam Ruby, that Liferea, the feed aggregator for the Gnome desktop, supports MathML, SVG and the Atom Threading Extension. That is extraordinarily cool.
Re: 5 Years
Sorry that you didn’t hear from me on the question that Sam answered.
Firstly, I couldn’t say, because the more recent versions of libxslt required by Liferea 1.2 or newer segfault when running my blog’s transforms. I’m stuck with Liferea 1.0, which doesn’t have XHTML support, until I debug that issue.
Secondly, when I tried to mail you, your mail server bounced my message on grounds that GMX is a spammer haven. I tried another time a few days later, but got the same response. Oh well.