Conference Poster in HTML and CSS

At research conference like the APS Meetings, Gordon Research Conferences, or many others, one of the common way of sharing and presenting your research work is with a printer poster during a poster presentation session. You get to discuss research in a one-on-one setting with whomever passes by your booth …

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Moving from Wordpress to Pelican

I finally got the time to move my blog from Wordpress to another platform. Wordpress is great for casual blogs, but if one needs to write mathematical expressions or publish any code the support is abysmal - bizarre ad-hoc markup that constantly gets broken by the visual editor.

Hence, after reading …

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Адреси на Народните Представители - юли 2012

[Добавка: 30 октомври] Обновен списък и много друга информация можете да намерите на http://www.parlamentaren-kontrol.com/mails.html

За всяка демокрация е важно гражданите лесно да могат да се свържат с избранниците си. Ние трябва да влияем на народните представители не само когато ги избираме. През целият им мандат …

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Visiting CERN for the Big Announcement

This morning I woke up rather early in order to go to the CERN campus to see the announcement of the new particle for myself. First of all:

Hell, yeah!

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”512”][Higgs-like
particle][] Higgs-like particle[/caption]

When Joe Incandela, the spokeperson for CMS, showed this plot everybody …

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Some Fractal Renderings

Quite some time ago I decided to learn how to program idiomatically in C++. A great resource were the C++ Annotations by Frank B. Brokken, which by the way are also in Debian’s repositories.

My first and only project in C++ was to write a fractal renderer. I wanted …

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Хроничната ми непоносимост към философията

Това е продължение от тук:

http://diana-oxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_4735.html

http://diana-oxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_17.html

Накратко: Да прочетох какво беше написала, но не смятам, че си разбрала какво аз имах предвид. Явно наричаме “философи” две различни неща. За теб това са хората, които задават …

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