Dive into the archives.
- Gratuitous iPhone Post
This is a post to test out my iPhone and the wordpress app. I am really starting to understand why cut and paste would be such a killer feature. The keyboard works fairly well even with my paws.
- Failing CAPTCHAs
Every time I fail a CAPTCHA, I feel my humanity is slightly impugned. Given Flann O’Brien’s theory about bicycles and their riders merging, isn’t it also likely that someone who uses a PC as much as I do will suffer a similar, digital fate? On the other hand, sometimes the tests are just too hard:
- Feynman, Wilkes and more
None of these things are going to get a full entry, so I will put them here for posterity. The Feynman point is the first instance of six consecutive 9s in π Feinman said he wanted to be able to recite the 700-odd digits of π up to that sequence, and then say “nine nine [...]
