When you start a blog site, the first thing you think about is how the math will look.

Well OK, if you are anything like me, the first thing you think about is how the math will look. And the graphs. And the plots. And possibly how difficult it will be to create them — after all, if it’s a lot of work, you might forego illustrating your points with easy-to-grasp figures or enlighteningly set formulas and go with a less-than-optimal textual representation instead.

One of the first things I did after installing WordPress was sifting through the plug-ins looking for one that would make this task simple and fun. There are a few dealing with LaTeX (WP LaTeX being the obvious choice), though graphing and plotting are represented less. No matter, at least is working …

But what’s that, a rasterized image ? Isn’t there a better way that’ll also display beautifully when scaled up or displayed on different-sized screens ? Vector graphics are nothing new, and Scalable Vector Graphics is an open standard published by the W3C quite some time ago; by now, browsers will surely support it …

(imagine me carrying on this train of thought for a bit and, as if by magic, arriving at …)

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Welcome to e.metaclarity.org.

This is a blog. It is shiny and new. It’s about whatever I deem it to be about at any given time; I will try to keep it interesting to at least some non-trivial subset of the population; this subset may change from post to post.

Let me start by introducing myself: Hi, my name is Eike. I’m a computer and computer science fanatic. I’m a guy. I’m 27 years of age. I’ve done some stuff and missed some other stuff.

Since this is not MySpace, I’ll not delve into all my likes and dislikes. Suffice it to say I have them. Some of them I will shed some light on in this blog.

I’ll be writing posts and pages in English for the most part — meaning that a German one could slip in every now and then. Don’t hold that against me, Google Translate, Yahoo Babelfish, etc. can help you understand the text next to the pretty pictures.

This site is part of metaclarity, a collection of blogs by different people. We all know one another, though that is not to say we are alike.

If you would like to comment on something I write, feel free to. Depending on the level of spam and abuse, comments may be moderated or disabled at any given time. Please try to make your comments useful to other readers and keep them on topic. While I certainly appreciate criticism and praise, they alone are not very interesting to anybody but myself unless they are constructive or add something new. If you just want to talk to me, contact me directly. Comments may be censored, edited, deleted, etc.; if you cannot agree with that, post on your own blog or do not comment here, please. While I won’t go overboard, it bears saying.

For the so-inclined, credits citing some of the used Software and technologies to make this happen are given on a separate page.