Martin Geisler Online

Browsing the access logs of my site is always fun — you never know what you’re gonna find! For example, it appears that people come to my site looking for information about the Microsoft formula (equation) editor.

How strange, for I haven’t been using this clumsy thing in at least 7 years! These days I wouldn’t consider using anything but [LaTeX][] which gives you vastly superious results when typesetting complex formulae.

The example on the right is taken from my old school paper on Mersenne Primes (in Danish), and it shows that if 2^p − 1 is a prime, then p must be a prime too, for if p = rs then we have just seen that 2^s − 1 divides 2^p − 1! Before you ask or look in the source of this page… the inline math was done by hand using ordinary [XHTML][] entities and tags. No fancy [MathML][] markup here! It’s not that I don’t want to, I just haven’t looked that much at MathML yet.

It’s raining… last week the weather was fantastic here in Switzerland with temperatures of more than 25 °C. That’s real summer weather!

But yesterday and today it has been raining all day here in Buchs. Just take a look at the image on the right — that’s the view from our kitchen.

And what is there to do in Switzerland when it’s raining: eat chocolate! :-) Before coming to Switzerland I knew of course that they made lots of good chocolate, but I must say that I didn’t expect to find it in such large quantities. All malls here have an entire wall covered with just chocolate — just great!

I’ve just installed a rather cool plugin: Brian’s Threaded Comments, which makes it possible to reply to a specific comment. Go try it out!

With this shiny new version of WordPress that I’m using here at mgeisler.net I’m suddenly getting emails whenever somebody makes a comment to one of my posts. That’s cool — this feature never worked on my old site.

At first I was a bit puzzled because the emails indicated that some of the comments were put on hold for moderation, for no apparent reason. A quick look at the options in WordPress explained this: comments are only let through without moderation if the owner has an previously approved comment. So the first time you submit a comment you’ll have to wait for me to approve it — after that your comments should go through automatically. As always, let me know if you have any problems.

From now all URLs pointing to gimpster.com will be automatically and permanently redirected to mgeisler.net. Please report any problems to me.

Also, if you have come to my site using an external link pointing to gimpster.com, then please go back and inform the webmaster that he or she should update their links.