Other lazy people

I frequently wind up with a list of interesting blog posts -- so why not include this here, too? As long as I cannot convince myself to use google reader or buzz, I'll do this the classical way (especially since I just read a complaint that less and less blogers use backlinks).

Tools for your online collaboration

So the winter school in Hejnice ended two weeks ago is long past -- and despite my intentions I did not find the time to blog. This is primarily a sign of the quality of the winter school, both scientifically and socially. I do admit I spent the lunch breaks walking in the beautiful surrounding mountains instead of blogging...

Anyway, on the last evening of the winter school a couple of people gathered together to exchange tools for collaborating via the intertubes. I volunteered -- also with the upcoming third Young Set Theorists meeting in mind -- to make the discussion available online. Of course, the title refers to this wonderful paper by Goldstern and Judah which taught me the little bit of iterated forcing that I know.

Good news, bad news

Just so that not another week ends without me writing a post. The bad news is that my departure for Michigan gets closer and the technicalities take up more and more time. Therefore I'm not sure I'll have much time to post in the next couple of weeks. Additionally, I'll be attending a winter school in Hejnice in the first week of February so I also need to prepare finish preparing my talk.

So what's the good news? Well, I have been busy on the blog but nothing has come of it yet. On the one hand I have been studying the Google App Engine so as to move the blog there -- which should make the work flow much more efficient (and the code better). On the other hand that there are three blog posts I have not finished -- so there's a chance the dry spell will be over sooner than I think. Finally, I hope to write posts during the winter school reflecting on the (possibly daily) experience.

Well, let me at least throw in some nice links worth a read. Gil Kallai turned a mathoverflow question into the kind of blog posts I really like. Over at the n-Category Cafe David Corfield explains muses over the "sacred" and the "profane" in mathematics (or rather for mathematicians) which made me ponder what my own "bottom line" is.