• All the “social bookmark” thing, that cannot be done from a printoff, just set the “display: none;” thing to the “ilsb-menu” ul class, and the “series_links” div class.

Then you have this span style=”margin-bottom:40px; border-bottom:none;” thing, with a lot of Javascript inside, which I think is causing the black lines. Just put a class on this spam, and in the print.css set display to none, and you’ll also get rido of that.

Only remaining thing at the end are the tags, but they are not css styled, so they can be trickier. If it is possible to wrap them all inside some div labels, just give it a name and hide it in the printing.

Some lines might also come from hyperlinks underlines, so under the “#contents a” section just replace “text-decoration: underline;” by “text-decoration: none;” and you’re done.

Also, it might be a good idea to make the print.css stylesheet load after all the other (like half a dozen) ones, so that no part of it gets over-ridden.

But please, don’t get over-perfectionistic about this, it is not such a great deal… just focus on keeping writing interesting things!

Indeed, I’ve been at the MPIM since the end of the winter break, but don’t know how easy will be to get the Vivatsgasse 7 thing working again. The two most active guys (Anton Mellit and Abhijnan Rej) don’t seem to be around here anymore. But I’ll ask Mehran or Anders as soon as I see them. I don’t thing it would change anything if I joined the team, I havent been a very active blogger myself lately, and actually should take a bit of care on my old site and revamp it…

• WP-print doesnt work it seems, but ive installed a printer.css in the header so you can now have a printer-friendly version when you do a normal print. Let me know if this works for you.

• Header picture : well, that was not crucial for me. but i wanted to have the latest k2 theme. i can easily change header-pictures so all suggestions are wellcome (the one here is a portion of the picture i once used in my Manin-Marcolli cave-post and is a picture of the hyperbolic plane, so i thought it might fit.

• please check all my calculations (reminds me i should update errors in my superpotential posts…). in fact i spend over 2 hours trying to understand something in the Bost-Connes paper until i realised it must be a typo, so i try to check everything myself but may make mistakes…

• “if things go as usual….” well, i plan to stay focussed on the Connes-Riemann approach for some time because i have to lecture on it to undergraduates… (well, not quite but ill do the music of the primes with them and may try something out). ok, ill slow down a bit also because it takes me much more energy than i imagined…

• btw. are you already at max-planck? if so try to get the vivatsgasse7 people to start blogging again (or join the team…)

atb.

Personally, with your 2 last posts concerning Connes-Bost systems I am interested on understanding the story in full detail, so I printed your first post, took it home, read it carefully, made all the computations on my own (not that I dont trust yours, but you never know…) and before I had finished getting a sound impression of what was going on, the second part was already online, so had to go through the same process (in top of usual duties) just to keep your rythm. If things go as usual, by the time I am ready to make any sensible comments, you’ll be already bored of the topic and have switched to something else, so it won’t make much sense commenting at all! If its comments what you’re lasting for, write short, one-idea posts, rather than long, technically detailed ones.

By the way, with the change of the layout it seems that you tweaked the plugin that put posts in nice form for printing. Now I get an ugly frame around the text and like 1/4 of the first page containing no sensible information. As for the rest, don’t like the new heading image, but most of the time read you from my RSS-reader anyway, so don’t take this too seriously.