Well, I know I haven’t blogged for a while, so whilst I’m sitting here waiting for some inspiration on the Measure Theory assignment this week I’ll update everyone who is mildly interested (probably zilch) on what’s been going on.

First off, the involuntary “get in” reaction. Last week I applied to become a peer tutor, and being the enormous idiot that I am forgot to fill in a word at the bottom (which I consequently blogged earlier). However, everyone on listy3 got an e-mail today asking whether they wanted to help out, since a ninth class has had to be created to fit everybody in. This time, I got the e-mail after about 20 minutes, and have had a response to say that I have the place. Unfortunately, the class on Monday morning is on the 5th floor Physics seminar room, but I’m not about to complain.

Anyway, apart from that I’ve been busy updating vBulletin to 3.5 over at SFN – my habitual geeky home. For anybody that’s interested in the sciences or anything else besides, come along and post some stuff. It’s good fun and we’re trying to add to the academic base of people that we have there, so I’m going to plug it like a beast.

Naturally, that’s taken up a lot of my time. I’ve re-written a mod I wrote to render LaTeX using a small PHP class. I discovered the utter uniequivocable joys of dvipng, which makes creating PNG’s so much faster it’s just utterly untrue. The class also provides a number of options (one being MathML, if I can get it to work). So that’s good.

Besides that there’s been lectures as per normal. I’m enjoying all of the courses I’m doing so far; the problem is, I don’t know which ones to drop. I’m on something silly at the moment, like 250, but if I only drop 5 modules that gets me back down the scale quite a bit. I think I may put it off until later.

Also, I put some fencing up today. And I’m going home to visit the folks later, so it’s all good. For now though, I think I shall depart to beat Measure Theory with uncountably many sticks, and perhaps an open cover or two.

7:12 pm | Posted in Computing, Maths, SFN, Warwick Blogs