Edit: Yes, Akismet is pre-installed on WordPress.org. Sorry about the confusion. WordPress by itself is great, but at the same time, it’s just a bare-bones package. That’s why there’s plugins, in fact, thousands of them waiting for you at the Plugins Directory. Some of these plugins are so good, they should be required by WP-law, while others are complete trash. …
Math is a fascinating world. It explains quantitatively almost every process on earth, even in the universe. From traffic patterns to cell differentiation, math is used to forecast future outcomes and explain historical trends. Personally, I have a great interest in number theory. With that being said, this list won’t cover every single unsolved problem in mathematics; rather, only those …
Here I am, sitting in my car as a passenger, heading home from a friend’s concert. I’m using this iPhone to post to my blog, I have google maps loaded, and it’s tracking this car’ down to the meter via gps. Meanwhile, on another tab, safari is loaded on twitter and gmail, and every time I pull down the page …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click …
A list of the stuff that my life could be without