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Tomorrow I’ll give my last class of the semester (year?) so it is about time to think about things to do (such as preparing the courses for the “master program on noncommutative geometry”) and changes to make to this weblog (now that it passed the 25000 mark it is time for something different). In the sidebar I’ve added a little poll to let you guess what changes 2005 will bring to this blog (if I find the time over Christmas to implement it). In short, @matrix will become the portal of a little company I’ll start up (seems the thing to do now). Here are some possible names/goals. Which one will it be? Vote and find out after Christmas.
WebMathNess is a Web-service company helping lazy mathematicians to set up their website and make it LaTeXRender savvy (free restyling every 6 months).
iHomeEntertaining is a Tech-company helping Mac-families to get most out of their valuable computers focussing on Audio-Photo-Video streaming along their Airport-network.
SnortGipfGames is a Game-company focussing on the mathematical side of the Gipf project games by distributing Snort-versions of them.
NeverendingBooks is a Publishing-company specializing in neverending mathematical course- and book-projects offering their hopeless authors print on demand and eprint services.
QuiverMerch is a Merchandising-company specializing in quivers. For example, T-shirts with the tame quiver classification, Calogero-Moser coffee mugs, Lego-boxes to construct local quivers etc.
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