The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,700 times in 2010. That’s about 14 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 48 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 116 posts. There were 156 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 18mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was August 4th with 142 views. The most popular post that day was Aluva to Mumbai.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were emacser.com, thinkdebian.org, Google Reader, sachachua.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for punchagan, org2blog, floppix, mailman multiple domains, and org-mode.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Aluva to Mumbai August 2010
1 comment

Postfix + Mailman for Multiple Domains. August 2009

ditaa and Org mode July 2010
3 comments

Blogs I Read: July 2010
5 comments

Vimperator and Firemacs! July 2010
4 comments

This blog has now moved to http://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/. The feed is here.

import numpy
a = numpy.array([1,2])
a = a + 0.5j
print a

[ 1.+0.5j  2.+0.5j]

The “same thing”, in a slightly different way.

import numpy
a = numpy.array([1,2])
a += 0.5j
print a

[1 2]

Both the code blocks, look really the same, until you look carefully. Under normal circumstances a = a + b and a += b behave exactly similarly, and we really don’t need to bother about the differences between them.

But, +=, which is an augmented assignment operator, actually tries to perform the operation in-place, unlike the other statement where + actually returns a new object which is again being referenced by the name a.

But, when dealing with numpy arrays, this will lead to trouble. When assigning to an array, it’s dtype is not changed and hence the trouble.

The right way to use the augmented assignment operator, would be:

import numpy
a = numpy.array([1,2], dtype=complex)
a += 0.5j
print a

[ 1.+0.5j  2.+0.5j]

The same thing is explained in this thread. Also, Thanks to Bhanukiran for asking me this.

I’m the moments I live,
not the ones, in which I just exist.
I’m the dreams I dream,
those fulfilled, and not just yet.

I am the occasions I grace
and those, missed, where I am.
I am the words I spoke,
those I wrote, and those I will.

I am all that I create,
and the stuff that I catalyse.
I am the love I receive,
and all of it that I spread.

Don’t cry, when I die,
for I never really will.

This is a conversation from #org-mode, published without permission from plovs, BerntH and bremner. If any of you want any of the content removed, I will do so.

<punchagan> hi all

<BerntH> hi punchagan [18:36]

<punchagan> BerntH: ever used/tried blorg or blorgit? [18:47]

<punchagan> I like the way org-publish works, but blorg exports one org file as a blog. If blorg were to be re-written on top of org-publish, how should it be done? use one file per post or just one file for the whole blog? [18:52]

<bremner> punchagan: another option is to use ikiwiki and use the org-mode plugin to render pages. This is what i do, although only a bit of the site is in org. [19:44]

<punchagan> bremner: can I have a look at your site? [19:45]

<bremner> sure, it ain’t pretty, but: www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner [19:46]

<punchagan> thanks. I’ll keep this in mind. [19:47]

<punchagan> I just loved the way this site looks and behaves – http://julien.danjou.info/projects.html

<bremner> well, the side bar at least is possible with ikiwiki. Other than that I suppose it is mainly a matter of css [19:48]

<BerntH> punchagan: nope [19:49]

<punchagan> ok BerntH [19:50]

<plovs> punchagan ikiwiki does have an org-mode plugin [19:56]

<punchagan> plovs: yes, bremner told me that and I’ve seen on Worg too. :)

<plovs> punchagan ah, yes, sorry

<punchagan> plovs: it’s alright. [19:59]

<plovs> punchagan another possibility is org2blog, which uses wordpress

<punchagan> plovs: I’m the author of it. :D

<plovs> lol, ik, that punchagan [20:17]

<punchagan> lol

<punchagan> plovs: were you kidding? or serious? [20:19]

<plovs> punchagan sorry to say i was serious, but it will not happen again :-)

<plovs> i really like org2blog, played with it yesterday

<punchagan> plovs: no. I was just wondering if you were playing around with me. :P

<punchagan> I’m happy some one thinks it is useful.

<plovs> lol, no, i just didn’t recognized your name, although it is kind of hard to miss [20:21]

<punchagan> I hope you don’t mind, if I make this anecdote public?