Yet another great Google service : Google Scholar. Just type in a name
(for example mine) and you will get a
list of all his/her publications which are listed on the net. A
printable version of the paper if possible, a reference if not. In the
first case it even lists all versions available on the net. But even in
the latter case it has an extremely useful link next to it “Cited
by somany” which gives all references to the paper Google can
find. Clearly, it also finds all papers posted on the arXiv but the
great additional value is that you no longer have to search departmental
or personal webpages yourself. If you want to find out more about this
service, read the about page.
Category: web
I've added a few side-bar links just for fun. One is who links here which is described to
be
Who Links To Me – for the ultimate
narcissist within you
and if you click it you get
_some_ of the pages linking to this weblog. Not that it is so
important but it is pleasant to see that some real people (as opposed to
spiders) look at this page and at times this is needed just to carry on
blogging.
Another link I like is blogshares. On its homepage its purpose is described
as
BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for
weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by
inbound links.
Much to my surprise my blog is
valued to be worth $3,793.32. I'll be happy to cash this in and
start a brand new blog anytime! Unfortunately, so far nobody seems to
have bought a share of @matrix, so please do, I think it's a good
investment if you look at the current growth rate. A more sobering
figure is that my present market share is a mere 0.000195188 %…
(added febr 2007) : clearly i’ve given up on
such things (though I’m presently worth 5 times more)
A couple of months ago I spend some time modifying the WordPress ViewLevel
plugin slightly to include in this blog. At the time, the idea was
to restrict the readership of certain posts (such as info meant for
master-class students etc.). In the sidebar these posts are prepended by
a padlock sign (together with the appropriate view-level). In the main
window these posts do _not_ show up unless you are logged in and
have the fitting view-level.
I hope that this tool may also prove
useful to combat spam-comments. Ideally, a weblog should be configured
to accept any comments but if you have to remove a 100 or more link-spam
'comments' each morning to keep your blog poker-free you have to
play defensive. Unfortunately, WordPress is not very good at it. Sure,
one can opt to put all comments on hold, awaiting moderation but (1)
this is unpleasant for genuine comments and (2) one still has to remove
all spam-comments manually from the moderation-queue. In the end, I had
to close all posts for comments to be spared from poker-online and
texas-online rubbish.
However, I appreciate comments and
suggestions especially at a time when this weblog is changing. So, if
you are working in either non-commutative algebra or non-commutative
geometry and want to give your suggestions, please get yourself a login.
I know, I know, it is a hassle with all those nonsense passwords but if
you are accessing this weblog from just one computer you only have to
remember it once (I forgot my own password but can still post
here…). I will then raise your ViewLevel from the default 0 value
to at least 1 so that you can read and comment the padlocked posts. If
you then want to make a comment on other posts, please use a nearby
padlocked post.
Today, I ask for suggestions for a good LaTeX
book-style. At the moment my favourite is the CTAN
thesis-package but surely there are better packages out there!
again : this idea came to nothing!
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