Martin’s Blog

I just want to help people

One of the advantages of wordpress is that it gives you all kinds of ways to keep track of what’s going on with your blog. For example you can see what searches people are entering to get them here. Here are some from the past few days with my responses:

imran khan arizona – Sorry, can’t help you.
stupid metre – I disagree.
Martin Donnelly Musician – see here.
kallis,s batting average – 57.10 in test matches. Also, learn to use apostrophes.
natural number sign in latex – use \mathbb{N}. This should look like
rounders test – I do not know of such a thing.
“facebook stalking” – I recommend it highly.
“sav rocca” – He is a former AFL footballer now playing for the Philadelphia Eagles as a punter.
cricket, 156 tests – The answer is almost certainly Allan Border.
facebook axiom of choice – You are probably looking for this facebook group.
can people know if you re facebook stalk – Not as far as I know. Let me know if you find out.
sav rocca – see above.
using bullet point form in wordpress – if in the visual editor just click the bullet point button. In code use <ul> and <li> tags just as in html.

Interactivity – the future is here

So I have lots of things that I could possibly talk about on this thing but I don’t really know what people are looking for in a blog. So I throw it open to you, my loyal readership. Tell me what you think of these ideas or tell me something to write about:

- A post where I see whether the concept of ‘form’ in cricket actually has predictive value: If Ricky Ponting has averaged 80 in his last 5 innings does this mean he is more likely to score above his career average in the next innings? Note that I think this would require me to learn some cookbook statistics or maybe I could just do it with simulations… (Leesa? Dave? any ideas).

- A rant against differential geometry in general and in particular question 2-1c) from Lee’s ‘Introduction to Smooth Manifolds’.

- More lists.

- More stupid videos from youtube: there is one of the world freehand circle drawing championships I think.

- I recreate scenes from the Chaser to test the putative stupidity of Americans: For example show them a map of Australia with the mainland marked North Korea and Tasmania marked South Korea and see if they believe me.

- The best of wikipedia: some examples.

- I infiltrate livejournal cricket slash communities and report on the latest goings on (If you don’t know what I’m talking about you almost certainly don’t want to).