Partially Attended

an irregularly updated blog by Ian Mulvany

blog posts about test

Testing Code Hilighting

testing ruby def foo puts 'foo' end testing python for nice in this: print "how interesting" testing latex \[\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{n} \text{ is divergent, but } \lim_{n \to\infty} \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{i} -\lnn \text{exists.} \] ... (more)

Volvox

“Volvox”:img:img:http://www.mulvany.net/photo/blogPics/volvox The very first thing to die on it’s own, without the intervention of an outside agent, was an organism called Volvox. The first life that we know of whose cells perish from old age, rather than misfortune. Before humble Volvox all other living things would go on forever, the immortal bacteria, the barely describable virus. Volvox introduced death by natural causes to the world, and all living things that came after that were as complex, or more so, followed suit, and found programmed within them some pace maker, set to expire after they had done their duty on the earth. ... (more)