awanderingmind

I started a new job recently.

Introduction A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1981, and is the funniest book I have ever read.

For some of us the hardest thing in the world is to be a good friend to ourselves.

I have retained since childhood an essentially atheistic outlook on life.

Why write?

Some technical updates Migrating off Google Analytics After my recent post, detailing my various frustrations with web development, I can report with some amusement that I broke Google Analytics on my site.

As a prelude to what is to follow, I must say that while I am not a professional mathematician (I have a masters degree in theoretical physics and work in the software world), I do enjoy reading the occasional textbook or review paper, and wandering throu…

My webdev-fu is weak because I do not always find the technology very interesting, and I have tried to avoid jobs where that is the main focus, so there are a lot of skills, and knowledge, I’ve never picked up.

Many traditions contain the notion of an interior voice of the human heart that corresponds in some way to our conscience.

Introduction I recently attended a ten day silent retreat near Worcester, South Africa.