# Photos from Korea

I visited Ulsan, Busan and Okpo, on Geoje Island, in South-Korea for 3 weeks in April. Below are some of my photos from the trip. Enjoy!

# WordPress plugins used here

I thought I would quickly highlight a few WordPress plugins I think are nice and that are in use here. First of all, you might have noticed that the text is justified. Well, not only that, but hyphens are used to break up words and split them on multiple lines. This all makes the lines even and very fine looking. What’s interesting, though, is that this fancy hyphenation algorithm is implemented client-side through a JavaScript library called Hyphenator.js. This is very easy to implement in a WordPress site by including the Hyphenator plugin and setting the text-align property to justify in the CSS.

On the subject of typography, I’ve also added a plugin for producing stunningly beautiful mathematical expressions. MathJax is a really impressive JavaScript library that interprets TeX and LaTeX (or MathML) syntax for mathematical formulas and outputs code that successfully degrades depending on your browser’s capabilities. MatJax comes in a nice plugin called MatJax-LaTeX.

$$\frac{4}{\pi}\left (\sin(\pi ft)+{1\over3}\sin(3\pi ft)+{1\over5}\sin(5\pi ft) + \cdots\right )$$

Lastly, I’m using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin which employs Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter to produce nice looking syntax highlighted code snippets. Behold the beauty of Duff’s device:

 register n = (count + 7) / 8;      /* count > 0 assumed */

switch (count % 8)
{
case 0:        do {  *to = *from++;
case 7:              *to = *from++;
case 6:              *to = *from++;
case 5:              *to = *from++;
case 4:              *to = *from++;
case 3:              *to = *from++;
case 2:              *to = *from++;
case 1:              *to = *from++;
} while (--n > 0);
}


# Relaunch!

I’ve upgraded the WordPress version, changed to a simpler domain name, updated the layout, added some content, removed old stuff. Welcome back!

# Thermal imaging for fun and profit

Cold draft from a pair of doors.

This weekend I got the chance to borrow the thermographic camera from work. The idea was to do an inspection of the house insulation, but it’s also a fun tool to just play around with. Below, my cat. The coldest spot? The moist nose.

Hedy (the cat)

# Galileoscope arrives

Finally! The Galileoscope arrived today! I’ve never used a telescope before and have been looking forward to trying out this very affordable (\$15) product. I’ve uploaded a few photos from the unboxing to flickr.

Assembly was very easy and I had no problem locating Jupiter and spotting four of its moons with the 25x magnification. Using the 50x magnification was a lot harder and probably needs some more practice. Below: getting a shot of Jupiter with a compact camera through the telescope turned out to be next to impossible, so I used Stellarium to create a simulated image of approximately how Jupiter looked through the Galileoscope (the second object from the right is no moon).