Mimicking Jacques Distler’s Planet Musings I’ve set up a Neverending Planet available from a header-link (and direct links from the ‘neverending planet’-section (the bit following the computers photo)). I assume that Distler is a Mac guy too, so when he said that ‘Installation (of Planet) was a breeze’ I thought I could pull it off easily, even in an off-tech phase… Not so.
Distler must be a heavier Python-user than I am (and that’s not difficult, unless you mean the Monty version of it) because the default system-delivered Python (2.3) did return error messages (something to do with a bsddb thing, I didn’t take note). But then I installed MacPython which has Python+stuff 2.4.3 as a universal binary (!) and all went well. I didn’t even tweak any of the files, so at the moment what you see is the default output of ‘fancy’ Planet (maybe I’ll modify it when a new tech-phase comes along). So far, I’ve subscribed to 38 math&physics blogs (a selection from my own blogroll and planet musings) which I believe have occasionally something interesting for mathematicians. But, if you know of an interesting blog I’ve missed drop me a line and I’ll add it (it just take me two lines in the config.ini file). As for the world-cup, I seem to have missed the best match so far (Germany-Costa Rica) because I thought it would be at 9pm rather than 6pm when I’m still cooking, eating and enjoying a hot evening… On the other hand, I did enjoy the final 15minutes-thriller of Sweden - Trinidad&Tobago (0-0). I never hoped so much for a draw and never had such a good laugh after a 0-0 match. But then, as Leo Beenhakker (the coach of T&T said) : “This isn’t mathematics, it’s football!!”

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Posted in general, iMath
Written on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 1:45 pm
Tags: mac
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