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Also, the link they give you on the site points to a site advertising cash advances, one of the most rapacious and terrible industries in our country, so if you use it, make sure to edit that part out of the HTML.

# Hello world!

This is a test to see if I would want to move my original blog over here. We want, you see, some semblance of $\LaTeX$ support.  For example, here is the formula for a Gaussian density:

$f(x) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2 \pi}} e^{\frac{1}{2 \sigma} (x - \mu)^2}$

# Moving?

I’m contemplating moving this blog over to wordpress.com for hosting, since they have nice features such as built-in LaTeX. I’d probably pay for the domain redirect (you have to pay for that???). I realized that I’m not using the extra flexibility of an external host, so it seems silly to pay for that. Does anyone else have any opinions or comments on feasibility/ease/worth of migrating?

# Guest Blogger : Alex Dimakis

My esteemed colleague Alexandros Dimakis will be helping blog the 2007 Information Theory Workshop in Lake Tahoe (and maybe MMSP and other exciting things in the future). This should be exciting!

# collated conference blogging

I have gathered my conference blogging into a single page, linked on the sidebar. Assuming I have the bandwidth, I’ll blog a bit about SSP 2007 and ITW 2007, and “Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages,” which I will be attending in Irvine this fall.

# regular blogging resumes

I apologize for all the server issues I’ve been having (it’s a long story involving caching and file permissions issues) — I think things are back up to normal now, and I should get some posts up about Paris and ISIT up sometime soonish…

# technical difficulties

I’m having some technical difficulties and trying to resolve them — hopefully the site will be up and running again soon…

UPDATE : The problem appears to be with my cache and/or the template I had been using before. So bear with this one and maybe I’ll find something prettier in my copious spare time (har har har).

# yet another test

I can only hope that this Gaussian will appear:

\mathbb{P}(X \le x) = \int_{-\infty}^{x} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi}} \exp(- y^2/2) dy

How to do it:

1. Install the WP-Cache plugin. Note that you have to muck with file permissions and it’s somewhat non-intuitive.
2. Install the MimeTeX plugin.
3. Stress out about the fact that for some equations the terminating quote ” in the alt tag for the image has turned into a fancy quote. Come up with a hack involving placing an empty img tag right after every piece of LaTeX. Hope that you figure out a way around it.