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Is Paul Krugman nine times as interesting as sex?

Published on 2 September 2010 in Humour and Meta. Tags: , . 1 Comment

My brother, who clearly has too much spare time on his hands, was yesterday browsing through my Archive page when he discovered that I have published 18 posts that refer to ‘Paul Krugman‘ in some way, but only two posts that refer to ‘sex‘.  This, he proposed, suggested either an unhealthy attachment to Professor Krugman, or a most disappointing detachment from fornication.

The present post brings the ratio from a lofty 9:1 down to only 6.3:1, but I fear it may still be too high!  Clearly a flood of pornographic material is called for …

Upgrades, upgrades

Published on 17 August 2010 in Meta. Tags: , . 0 Comments

The world keeps on changing under my feet.  I’ve done a few upgrades on the site — my apologies in advance if anything seems (let alone is!) broken.

Please excuse the mess …

Published on 27 August 2009 in Meta. Tags: , . 0 Comments

I’m playing with my themes.

Meta and trumpet-blowing

Published on 12 June 2009 in Meta. Tags: , . 0 Comments

I’ve just upgraded to version 2.8 of WordPress.  Hopefully it will improve the speed of the site.

Also, a search on google for “fiscal multiplier” puts me at number two at the moment.  I have no idea why.

Integrating with Twitter

Published on 12 March 2009 in Meta and Personal. Tags: , . 0 Comments

I’m not really sure about Twitter.  I don’t really see the point.  I guess the mobile-phone integration is a step forward, but still …

Anyway, I’ve just installed Twitter Tools so that my Twitter account will get an update when I post a new entry here on my blog.

This is what happens …

Published on 22 February 2009 in Meta. Tags: . 0 Comments

… when Mark Thoma links to you in the midst of one of his daily “Links For” posts:

Thoma hit

(Side Note:  I’ve alway’s liked Economist’s View.  Mark provides a truely terrifying aggregation of econo-blogo-thought.)

New feature: I’m now printer-friendly!

Published on 18 February 2009 in Meta. Tags: , , . 0 Comments

By popular demand (well, one person asked me), I’ve installed WP-Print – a WordPress plugin that will allow you, valued readers, to see a printer-friendly version of any post or page on this blog.

Every post and page now has a link at the top that takes you to the printer-friendly version of that post or page.  If you live-and-die by the URI bar, it’s the usual address with “/print/” at the end.

Let me know if you have any problems.

LaTeX

Published on 17 February 2009 in Academia and Meta. Tags: , . 2 Comments

I’ve installed the Latex for WordPress plugin, so now I can freak people out by writing stuff like this:

P_{it}^{\ast }=\left( \frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}\right) ce^{s_{it}}

Upgraded to wordpress 2.7.1

Published on 12 February 2009 in Meta. Tags: . 0 Comments

I’ve just upgraded the version of wordpress I’m using.  There’s a chance some things might be broken for a little while.

We need more Tantas

Published on 1 December 2008 in Meta. Tags: , , . 0 Comments

This is a tragedy.