. . . muttered the ogre

identity theft?

Posted on Thursday, 2003 September 25 by Anton

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throw a pebble

Posted on Thursday, 2003 September 25 by Anton

I have long taken delight in how the Net lets me rub electrons informally with scholars such as John Conway and Larry Trask.

On September 12, I wrote to Eric Weisstein of MathWorld:

If the tetrahedral rotation group is isomorphic to A4, as is easily shown, why are they listed as distinct groups of order 12?

It appears that my question triggered a major rewrite of the latter page. Wow. (The answer to my question is that there are two unrelated groups called T, both of order 12.)

2006: Trask died in 2004, alas.

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my aging infrastructure

Posted on Saturday, 2003 September 20 by Anton

I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

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a hurricane in the Atlantic can alter the flight of a butterfly on the Pacific

Posted on Friday, 2003 September 19 by Anton

My housemate, uncharacteristically awake before dawn, complained that she could not reach her mailbox (which is on this site). Thinking quickly I guessed (accurately) that, being hosted in Virginia, ogre.nu was temporarily knocked out by the hurricane.

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