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[Day Permalink] Sunday, November 10, 2002

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Matt Croydon wrote a comment about the new theme for this weblog:
I love the new theme and the tweaks that you made. I know it took me quite a bit to get the CSS to a point that I liked. When I started my weblog, the theme that I used was the most appealing to me. Now I am glad that I can get rid of the graphics and focus my readers on content.
I have been correcting some mistakes I made in the change to the new template. (I forgot to include the macro for tracking referrals, for example.) In addition, the new style has some inconsistencies, and some CSS definitions are not good as they are. But this has to be wait for future edits and tweakings. I have never really looked at CSS coding, so this is not trivial to do for me. But I'm also happy with the new lighter version. The weblog also loads to the browser much faster than previously.


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Theoretical Physics Breakthrough or Hoax?. "Dr. Peter Woit, a mathematician and physicist at Columbia University, said of the brothers' work, "Scientifically, it's clearly more or less complete nonsense, but these days that doesn't much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature." [...] Indeed, the problem of distinguishing sense from nonsense goes beyond the Bogdanovs, say some physicists, who worry that far too much junk goes past the referees who vet articles for the scientific journals and the examiners who approve Ph.D's." [Slashdot]