Only a few more days until the Outlaws arrive. They rang last night to say they were just about to set off on the first leg of their journey, the drive to London (they live in Wales). They’ll be in London by now, where they’re staying overnight and catching the plane in the morning. They’ve…
I raced out this morning and took a photo of the finished brickwork: It stands out at the moment, but according to the builder it should weather to match the rest of the house in a year or so. And while I’m uploading photos, here’s one I forgot to upload of the car that crashed…
As I may or may not have mentioned, MrPloppy‘s parents are arriving next week from the UK for a month’s visit (they won’t actually be staying with us for the whole month, because they’re going to do a bit of touring around the country, but they’ll be using our place as a base). It’s the…
Sorry I haven’t been updating much lately (or at all, in fact) – what with the crisis at work, starting a new paper at university, and preparing for the imminent visit of MrPloppy‘s parents, plus the remains of that cold I caught in Dunedin hanging on and sapping any energy I had left after all…
No, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth, I’ve just been sick. When will I ever learn that going to a Bookcrossing convention and then coming home and going straight back to work is not a good idea (FutureCat, write 100 times: “I must always plan a holiday to recover from my holiday”)….
Last night I finally managed to finish making release notes and/or journal entries on all the books I released in Dunedin. It’s taken me a while, but given that I wild released 79 books on the trip, plus controlled released (i.e. gave directly to another bookcrosser) about another 30, and most of them had photos…
I still haven’t had time to make all the release notes on the books I released in Dunedin, but at least I’ve managed to journal the ones I caught: The Years with Laura Díaz by Carlos FuentesWhy Can’t a Man Be More Like a Cat by Linda Konner and Antonia van der MeerI Capture the…
Back from the convention, and totally exhausted, but had the most wonderful time. I *really* wish I didn’t have to go to work today! I still haven’t managed to make release notes on all the books I released on the trip, or even to make journal entries on the ones I was given, but once…
The convention is getting excitingly close now. Bookcrossers are arriving in the country in droves (well, small droves), and everywhere there are signs that Bookcrossing is about to hit Dunedin in a big way. The ODT had a teaser today for a big spread on How to Bookcross that they’re running tomorrow, and I spotted…
A possible solution to allimom’s maths problem: It’s a while since I’ve done matrices, so I may have forgotten some of the symbolic conventions, but I think what you’re being asked to prove is that is true for all values of n. n=0 and n=1 are trivial, of course. For n=2, Proof by induction involves…