{"id":3836,"date":"2011-08-20T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2011-08-20T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:25:14","slug":"walkingrandomly-turns-4-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"WalkingRandomly turns 4 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little corner of the web that I like to call home has been online for 4 years as of today.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who reads and comments on the stuff I put up here, I hope you find my wanderings interesting and\/or useful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank all of the people and organisations I have collaborated with over the years while writing articles here. I&#8217;m not going to mention names out of fear of missing someone out but you know who you are.\u00a0 The only exception would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasondigital.com\/\">Matthew Haworth of Reason Digital<\/a> who talked me into starting this up during his University of Manchester farewell party.\u00a0 He also provides me with web hosting (surviving three <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slashdot_effect\">slashdottings<\/a> so far), technical support and, on occasion, lunch!\u00a0 Without Matt, there would be no Walking Randomly.<\/p>\n<p>Back on WRs first birthday I gave out some stats (143 RSS subscribers and 250 visits per day) and so I&#8217;ll so the same today (1645 RSS subscribers and 800 unique visits per day)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is a list of some of my favourite articles from over the last 4 years.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=19\">Secret Messages hidden inside equations<\/a> &#8211; When an equation <strong>literally<\/strong> spoke to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=59\">The Valentine&#8217;s equations<\/a> &#8211; Hearts and flowers, wrapped up in equations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=86\">Now thats what I CALL Retro Computing<\/a> &#8211; Ever wondered how easy it would be to program a 60 year old computer?\u00a0 Now&#8217;s your chance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=151\">Simulating Harmonographs<\/a> &#8211; Pretty pictures from pendulums<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=381\">Proof I have a brain<\/a> &#8211; When I blagged my way to a free brain scan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1397\">Should Fortran be taught to undergraduates<\/a>? &#8211; My first Slashdotting.\u00a0 This post has been read by tens of thousands of people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1471\">Wheels on Wheels on Wheels<\/a> &#8211; More pretty patterns<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1701\">The unreasonable ineffectiveness of factoring<\/a> &#8211; We drill and kill the technique of factoring equations in schools.\u00a0 A pity that its useless then!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2447\">Polygonal numbers on quadratic number spirals<\/a> &#8211; Yet more pretty patterns<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2692\">Math on iPad #1<\/a> &#8211; The beginning of a series that is still ongoing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=626\">Quadraflakes, Pentaflakes, Hexaflakes and more<\/a> &#8211; Playing with a particular kind of Fractal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=294\">Complex Power Towers<\/a> &#8211; recreations in the complex plane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little corner of the web that I like to call home has been online for 4 years as of today.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who reads and comments on the stuff I put up here, I hope you find my wanderings interesting and\/or useful. I&#8217;d also like to thank all of the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking-randomly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-ZS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}