Hello World

Hello world indeed. I figured I’d add one more voice to the noise that emanates from this series of tubes.

It was mainly seeing this interview with Robert Paterson that made me want to give blogging a serious try. I’ve had some online journals in the past but never went really far. Though livejournal might be better suited for the classic teen angst posts. I dare say you’re not bound to read much of that kind of material on this blog, but don’t be disappointed, I’ll make up for it by alienating my esteemed readership by writing about the joys of mathematics.

But let’s face it, I guess I’ll mainly post whatever interesting stuff I come across while gliding on these tubes and only throw in the occasional rant (also known as philosophical essay).

While we’re on the subject of blogging; how come the university of Warwick is so much more progressive than Imperial College by offering blogs to all students and staff? Now obviously anyone can still get a blog on such a wonderful site as this but I still think it’d be a great thing for any uni in general to have (sense of community and all that).

On another note I seriously considered writing this blog in Middle English. After all even Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. Reading that blog really cracked me up. Middle English (ME) is wonderfully melodic and seeing it blogged is so surreal. Though it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever give in to the urge to blog in ME. I’m just not fluent enough. If you come across other blogs in ME, let me know.

I know this post is going on for longer than expected but I had to add one more link. It’s a linguistic analysis (semi-serious perhaps) of English sentences without overt grammatical subjects. You know, sentences such as “fuck you“.

That wasn’t directed at my readership, in case you were wondering – and yes, I have no problems using any English word that can be found in a decent dictionary. Nor do I have a problems with making up words either.