Some firsts

As neone amongst you who keep(s) track of this blog might have noticed, I have been making many dx-dx changes to my blog over past few days. I have included a site traffic monitor from tracemyip.org and also one from Clustrmaps. I liked the TraceMyIP widget more obviously because it provides greater detail about the visitors including their IP, exact location, browser, OS, time of visit, pages visited and whether they are online or not. And also u can block ur own IP from being counted. But it is free only for a period of one year I was wishing to do it for a while now, but could figure out today only how to go about it.

The web log from the first day surprises me in addition to the info that the WordPress Blog Stat widget has been givin over last month or so, Today, I had visitors from as far as Copenhagen, Saint George and LA. That simply amazes me. And on the top of it all, somebody amongst them had searched for my name itself. Now, this is something too flattering OK … enuf of gloating. But on a side note, people please do tell me who you are when you have searched for my name and do leave some comments

Also, I have included links to some blogs that I myself read and admire too!

In addition, I am posting today my first photograph, actually a computer generated painting that seems beautiful to me atleast. This is another of the firsts. The painting is a result of some computation carried out in connection with something in asteroseismology. I feel that this is why nature seems to be so beautiful. Such beautiful do these strokes of lines arising from some equations of physics seem. The image was generated from the numerical datae using GNUPLOT version 4.2 and then subsequently edited using GIMP 2.4.5

Signing off

The First Step

This is my first blogging experience. Though I have read some two or three blogs by some other friends or other people but haven’t myself tried my hands on this thing yet. So, I am sure of committing too many mistakes, breaking too many conventions and norms. I ask everybody’s forgiveness for the same.

The inspiration to start blogging came from my friend Neeraj Singh, an IITM arts student and a very dear friend, along with many others like Vipul Naik, a CMI third year student, S V Kanade, an IITK maths student both of whom I don’t know personally but do admire them a lot and have read their blogs secretly and am simply trying to follow their footsteps by starting one of my own. Besides, I have started this new adventure to develop my writing skills and relieving myself of the indifferent feeling that I develop of people, events, system etc. sometimes or rather many a times. I will try my best to be regularly blogging if I may make out some time from my ill-managed daily-schedule. The blogs, I suppose will be on varied topics and are prone to hurt your feelings. So, please read at your own risk. You are free to comment on my posts or write your views to me personally at any of the following addresses:lsinghal[AT]iitk[DOT]ac[DOT]in , singhalsingle[AT]gmail[DOT]com

But here’s also a bye-law – and that is, that I will allow your comments or will reply to you only if the following criteria are met:

1. you are worthy enough to get a reply from me or your comments to be taken note of.
2. I am worthy enough of replying to you.

so please check beforehand, that you find yourself to satisfy the above two criteria [;)]

So all the axioms and definitions have been made. Now, the theory is to be developed out of them [:P] … I hope it does work out well.