Author Archives: Andrew

Dec 21 0 comments
Meta

Note to subscribers

I’m in the pro­cess of updat­ing my blog to Word­Press. This is not a trivial task because of the cus­tom plu­gins that I used to have for Mov­able Type.
It’s going to take a few days, so expect weird­ness in the RSS feed while this happens.

May 25 0 comments
Integration, Mathematics

Symbolic integration: Part 1

Well, time to show my true geek­i­ness with a series. We’re going to do sym­bolic integ­ra­tion. You know, anti-derivatives.

May 14 0 comments
Demographics

The biggest religious group in the English-speaking world

I came across this opin­ion piece excerp­ted from Richard Dawkins’ latest book, The God Delu­sion. It’s a good piece, how­ever there’s one niggle that I have.

May 04 0 comments
Archaeology from the future, Comedy, Meta

Is this a funny title for a blog entry?

The blog form­ally known as “Andrew’s Thingy”, which my wife thought­fully put in, is now get­ting a more per­man­ent name, as I start to use it more. It is known as “The BWAIN”. Why? Because this is a Blog Without An Inter­est­ing Name.

Sep 21 0 comments
Language

Reads, links and blogs

Lynne Truss, pos­sibly my favour­ite Grumpy Old Woman, finally has her own site.

Sep 20 0 comments
Meta

Hello World

Every blog must have a first post. This is mine.