Return to the blogosphere
September 26th, 2005 by SplineGuy
After learning that there are others that I actually know that are blogging, I am making my triumphant return to the land of the bloggers. Looking at the last blog date, I think I can safely say that I am returning from my second longest hiatus from blogging, where the longest was the first 28 years of my life.
I’ve got everything set up now on my own webserver so that blogging all takes place where I have control over all the details. Apparently I am a control freak when it comes to my web designing. The main reason I moved everything here was so that I could blog mathematical content and I need to install the necessary plugins to WordPress that allows the LaTEX typesetting language to be used in the blog posts. As an example you can see in the post last July where I arbitrarily posted the quadratic formula.
I imagine that much of the next few blogs will be somewhat schizophrenic as I try to identify the true goals behind my blogging. As seems typical of most bloggers, it will be somewhat therapeutic, somewhat informative, somewhat entertaining, and somewhat something else. I don’t know yet. I think most of all, I intend to keep a record of some the research areas I pursue. As I am coming off the dissertation, my research interests have exploded and now I have more things that I am interested in doing than I have time to finish. I still need to finish the coding of the work I did this summer for Dr. William Hase in the Chemistry department at Texas Tech. Following that I have some work with Dr. Phil Smith and Dr. Randy Eubank relating to the comparison of penalty spline methods with other variable knot spline algorithms. Then I still have a few goals of my own relating to the development of flash demonstrations for my classes ranging from Algebra to Differential Equations. I realized only today how much of my Functional Analysis I have forgotten so I need to go by and brush up on a few things.
I also need to correct my reading list and update those books I’ve read since the last time I blogged on my readings.
I may be misinformed, but I’m pretty sure flashing your classes is considered inappropriate behavior for someone in your position.
Pardon me, make that Macromedia Flash (R) demonstration. Is it me or do you spend a little too much time commenting or blogging on such inappropriate behavior (volleyball photos, registration forms, etc.)?
Yes, Jonboy spends WAY too much time on blogs. Makes me wonder what he does all day.