Test Post

Using external posting tools to post to my Blogger blog.

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New Beta

I've just thrown this blog onto the new Blogger Beta to make my life a little easier, as I've already got a Google Account linked up.

I've used rich-text editors before, especially in Writely, but this seems quite nice. Not sure how new it is as I haven't posted here in a while.

Doesn't look that different so far, but at least it's easier to get into. Might see me posting more here, especially if Flock still works with the new beta.

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Who Am I?

I thought I should write a bit more about myself and what I've been upto. I recently gradtuated in a Ph.D. in Computer Science, the details of which you can see in the links to the rights of this post. Outside the research, I've been doing some political work, integrating the spell checker from Speller Pages into the WriteToThem website, which provides an easy way to get in touch with your MP.

WriteToThem.com - Who are you, and why are you doing this?

technorati tags:politics, web, programming, Ph.D.

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Metamath Music Page

Very interesting project about the sonification of mathematical proofs, that's also used to analyse sound. The proofs are converted into MIDI for sonification.

Read more at us.metamath.org/mpegif/...

Deepest Sender

I'm using the Deepest Sender extension for Firefox, and just wanted to check it was working. I know no-one's reading this yet, but with the extension I might find the time to write more here.

Black hole flight simulator

From the new "New Scientist" blog comes this very cool looking simulation.

Black hole flight simulator: "
Sci-fi writers have long imagined what being swallowed by a black hole might be like – now physics, supercomputers and computer gaming graphics have combined in an attempt to create a realistic simulation. And it’s a pretty wild ride.

The 'Black Hole Flight Simulator'was created by Andrew Hamilton, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The 23-minute show contains segments that required 90 hours of supercomputer calculation for each on-screen second. You can see the trailer here (and look out for the guy in the canoe).

Entering a black hole might sound like a certain death sentence, but not so if it has five dimensions. If you don’t fancy the gamble, astronomers can now detect the event horizon of black holes, as well as witness their brutal birth and messy feeding. (Image: Denver Museum of Nature and Science)"