Last week, John Kovalic (the guy who does Dork Tower) posted some photos of his new kittens in his LiveJournal. I like cats, but I tend to steer clear of overly cute photos (e.g. long-haired kittens with bows tied around their heads). However, these pictures just made my heart melt, and whenever I look at them I just sit here with a big grin on my ( Read more... )

First up, I hope everyone had a good Christmas break. I was in work until Wednesday (Christmas Eve), but now I'm off until next weekend (back on Monday 5th), so that's a nice break.

I've recently updated my website, and I'm now working on getting my book errata online. This is useful in a wider context, since I'm figuring out SVG, MathML, and XML ( Read more... )

Brief news from today ( Read more... )

A few recent developments on the feline front. ( Read more... )

So far, today is shaping up into one of those days where it's just darn good to be alive ( Read more... )

The background reading continues. At some point I need to stop reading, and actually come up with the damn algorithm, but I don't yet know how... Back when I first spoke to my supervisor about this project, he asked whether I wanted to write a program, the alternative being to write a review of the literature, although he didn't think that would be ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't actually done a huge amount of project work in the last few days, despite my good intentions. I have been able to catch up on some sleep through (despite my cat's best efforts to stop me!), which is good. I've also done some general sorting out, e.g. I've finally got round to claiming a refund on the excess tax I paid last year ( Read more... )

If Lassie was a cat, poor Timmy would be doomed... "Hey look, she's meowing at us to get our attention - now she's leading us towards the old well! No, wait, now she's turning round and round in circles. And now she's changed her mind, and decided she wants us to open the door again so she can go back into the house ( Read more... )

Well, since my last entry, I've been pretty lazy here. Caught up on the TV I'd taped during the week last night and played Magic, then read through the latest batch of comics today. In particular, the paperback of "Midnight Nation" is now out (JMS comic), which is an excellent story ( Read more... )

Had my graph theory exam this morning, which went pretty well. Basically, I think that I only dropped 5 marks out of 150, so that puts me on about 97%, which I can live with :) I was 10 minutes late (thanks to cat for waking me up after I ignored my alarm clock), but I made up for the lost time ok. I also spotted an error in the paper, which I ( Read more... )