Mathematical Musings

Here's a gotcha that I've finally understood (with some hand-holding from stassats on #lisp). The type of a lisp array describes ho...

I had a strange problem last night where I couldn't build some code I was working on. The program ( gpsim ) depends on the Gtk stack and...

The University of Warwick Library no longer allow access to E-journals except after jumping through hoops to access them through the librar...

If you're having a weird problem with evince showing gray boxes instead of text in some pdfs, the problem could well be a bug in cairo. ...

If you want to get the Huawei E1550 USB modem working with linux, here's what you need to do, with specific instructions for those on De...

Well, I'm lame and not really updating this. However, my mother has a terribly nice (ahem?) website at WAS Science , which she doesn...

This summer, I've got an undergraduate research bursary at our university's Systems Biology centre , which is wierd as I always vie...