Holiday lull

The post-xmas pre-new year lull.
I’ve come into work to clear up the lab, catch up on some papers I need to read and feed the fish. I’m doing this instead of staying home, clearing up there and catching up on books I need to read.

The building is slient, so I think I’ll turn up the music and get to work.

Chip and PIN

I’d just like to express my gratitude to the inventor of chip and PIN. It has saved me lots of money so far this xmyth period. The simple reason for this is that I haven’t a clue what my credit card PIN is.

Best invention EVAR! (excluding: sliced bread, the Sinclair Spectrum, painkillers, beer, etc)

mimeTeX

Ah the joy of being able to typeset proper equations in a ‘blog. I installed mimeTeX a while ago, but didn’t do anything with it right away so I forgot about it.
I was just doing some admin on the server that hosts this site when I discovered I had mimeTeX still installed. I will hopefully have some science to post here very soon, so it should come in handy.
No one likes seeing:

e^x=[lim n>infinity] (1+x/n)^n

when the other option is to show it thus: