Interesting Developments

Big news: Blogspot seems to be viewable in China at the moment! I haven't seen any official notices about this but it's an interesting development. I'd also like to know whether it's only the computers that I'm using or this is a nation-wide unblocking. Any info would be gratefully received. Other sites such as BBC news and wikipedia are still blocked.

Working on this Chinese computer all the commands are in Chinese. I hadn't thought about it before but the Chinese version of blogger (which has always been available) has no spell-check function - I apologise for any confusement corzed.

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The talk yesterday seemed to go pretty well with several interesting questions from the professors and students. 15 minutes introducing the AdS/CFT correspondence plus my current research is not an easy task but people seemed to nod along and not off which seems a positive response.

Next week I have to fly down to Wuhan in Hubei province (about two hours flight) to give two hours on the AdS/CFT correspondence as an introduction to a group who are interesting in quark-gluon plasmas. Should be fun.

For now, as I haven't got my own computer and I'm temporarilly usurped from my office I have some time, in between filling out claims forms and starting to supervise students, to sit in the library and catch up on some reading. Photo blog to come soon I hope but that will have to wait for a day or so.