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11th November 2012A Longer Bike RideTo recap: after doing maths in St Andrews for half of June and all of July, I spent a couple of weeks in Nottingham with some of my family. We got out on our bikes a bit, and tried to make the most of whatever small piece of summer we could salvage from 2012. I returned home to Perth half way through August, and shortly afterwards, I took the opportunity of visiting Emily to bring my bike home from St Andrews. I wanted to go on some bikes rides. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] The River Tay at Port Allen[/caption] My first bike ...
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27th January 2012KindleHey, did I mention I bought a Kindle? This is it: It's a Wi-Fi Kindle 3, the type released back in the summer of 2010 (it's now known as the Kindle Keyboard, but I think that's a clumsy name which I prefer not to use). This is the one I got. I forwent the 3G because I can live without it and would rather spend the ~£70 premium on something more fun instead. But hang on a second Wilf, you say. If you've just bought a Kindle, why didn't you get the current version? Indeed, Marco recommends the Kindle 4 as the ...
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3rd February 2011Two EcksHappy new year everybody. It's 2011. Perhaps my favourite improvements ever added to iOS were those made to the music player app in iOS 3.0: Search was a nice addition, variable-rate scrubbing very useful, and I use the 30-second rewind button all the time. But I find particularly the playback speed button the most indispensable. It has changed the way I listen to podcasts. Since the release of iOS 3.0 in 2009, I have listened to most of my podcasts on the "2x" speed setting, with only one or two exceptions. On a walk along West Sands back in December, I brought this up ...
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3rd March 2010Eating Animals: ReadOn a walk today I finished listening to the audio version of Jonathan Safran Foer's book, "Eating Animals". I heard that Natalie Portman became a vegan after reading this book, so I wanted to read it too. I eat meat and I love it. I also want to hold clearly defined principles, and to live consistently with those principles. Before "Eating Animals", I'd never read a book about meat, and I hadn't really thought about whether I should eat it ((Usually stopping after 'well, it's natural so... why not?')). Even after reading the book I don't think I've properly started to consider things, but ...
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4th December 2009SmugopediaI like this Smugopedia entry on Malcolm Gladwell: The problem with Malcolm Gladwell is that he writes too well: when you read him, you don't know if you're agreeing with his controversial ideas because he's right, or because he's enchanted you. The site hasn't been updated for a while, it's still worth the time to read it if you haven't before.
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
