In the spirit of doing something just because I can, I decided to generate a QR Code for this website. Of course if you can see this you already know the address, but over time this is something I can start adding to paperwork and suchlike. Generated using “Barcode Assistant”, which is the best (free) application I’ve found for the…
Well, I wasn’t planning to write this blog entry until there had been some kind of resolution, but my patience is being tried to its limits so I need to let off steam. God knows there’s already loads of bad publicity for them on the Web, so it’s not going to make any difference, but it may make me feel…
I spent an enjoyable day down in London on January 15th visiting the Tate Britain, and in particular the Muybridge exhibition which was due to finish the following day. The main reason for visiting was due to my ongoing interest in animal gaits (insects and other hexapods in particular), and the Muybridge animal locomotion photographs have been an inspiration for…
Much to my surprise, my mum has turned out to be a budding mathematician and for dinner on Christmas Eve we were presented with Romanesco Broccoli! I had forgotten what a beautiful vegetable it was (the last one I’d seen I had bought from Tesco for a lecture on fractals about 10 years ago). For anyone of a mathematical persuasion…
