Katharine MJ Osborne: June 2006

The Physics Family
Friday, June 30, 2006

I've just posted my article for July 7th, which examines the relationships between the various branches of physics. I thought this would be a lightweight article, but I blew my word cap by 50%.

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Thunderbird
Thursday, June 29, 2006

I just converted to Thunderbird from Netscape 6 for my mail client. The migration was completely seamless - I was quite impressed. My admiration for open software only continues to grow.

Also, it looks like I have a few more sessions of the Introduction to Database Design class coming up this fall. I originally thought I would be teaching this on a temporary basis, but this is pretty cool.

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DeviantArt
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

I've known about DA for awhile, but I didn't realize just how active a community it was. I joined (free, which is cool), posted a piece of artwork (called a deviation), and immediately got a comment. So it was pretty cool.

My deviant site is here.

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Wormholes
Thursday, June 22, 2006

I have a new article that will be posted next week - it is on wormholes. This emerged from a discussion I had with another writer on Suite101, an aboriginal rights activist in Australia who is questioning the "Western" view of time. He asserted that the linear view of time is a construct of western thought, and does not necessarily agree with reality. In general I tend to agree. I think the human brain is optimized for viewing time in certain ways, under certain circumstances. In our discussion he brought up wormholes, of which I admittedly knew less than I would like. It's kind of a fascinating topic and I went over my word limit again :-(

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I'm on Amazon!

DTP finally made it into the listings, here it is!

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Suite101 Makeover
Saturday, June 17, 2006

I just checked the site I write my physics column for, and they've completed a makeover. I must say that it looks a lot better, and the site is much easier to use overall - though I'm not fond of the green, but at least it seems more cohesive now. Hopefully it will attract new readers!

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New Distraction
Thursday, June 15, 2006

I found a new way to procrastinate from writing - I created a database-backed gallery page exactly the way I've been wanting to do it for several years, then I spent several hours sifting through my harddrive looking for stuff to post. The link is at left.

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