This article was updated on 2025-08-10.
On the Blog and Me
I've been writing things on blogs since about a decade ago, when I was a student in a junior high school. This blog is just a new one running on Github Pages. My old blog, which has been archived for years, can be found here. I used Mr.Blug as my nickname.
Pelican helps me a lot in building this blog. The theme templates it provides are nice and easy-to-use. With Pelican and the themes from the community, I completed the whole website smoothly and efficiently. To be honest, I am not very good at webpage design. All I can do with HTML's and CSS's is to modify them! There were many other wonderful tools like Pelican, but I chose it because it's small, simple but flexible. Once Pelican is installed by a simple instruction of "pip", almost everything is prepared and I can start writing my articles and decorating my website at any time. The reference manual is friendly and thorough. Everything about Pelican can be found there.
How to Download a File from my Blog?
There are roughly two kinds of files available to download in the blog: files that are small with internal links and files that are big with external links.
Click here to download an example internal file. It's a small text file, and some browsers may directly open it for you.
Click here to open an external link. It's EICAR virus test files download page! You can download those files to test your antimalware! Haven't heard of computer virus for a long time? Be careful when downloading a file from the Internet, as the virus is only less conspicuous but not extinct.
Will Math Formulae Be Correctly Displayed?
Don't worry. If the javascripts are loaded and enabled, everything will be fine1:
$$ax^2+bx+c=0, a\neq0\tag{a.1}$$ $$x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}\tag{a.2}$$
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
|---|---|---|
| A | b | c |
| A | c | b |
| B | a | c |
| B | c | a |
| C | a | b |
| C | b | a |
On the Time Format
You may have noticed that I use a rather formal time format across the blog. This format comes from the standard ISO 8601. One basic form of standard time format is '[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]T[hh]:[mm]:[ss][+-][hh][mm]'.
[YYYY] represents a 4-digit year, such as 2024.
[MM] is a 2-digit month, such as 03 and 12.
[DD] is a 2-digit day, such as 05 and 31.
[hh] is a 2-digit hour number ranging from 0 to 23.
[mm] represents a 2-digit minute and [ss] refers to a 2-digit second.
Letter 'T' is a separator between date and time, indicating the start of a time.
[+-] can be either '+' or '-', indicating the difference of the local time from UTC. For example, I am now in China, and my local time is 8 hours ahead of UTC (If it's 01:00 in UTC at present, it should be 09:00 in my local timezone now). Therefore, '[+-][hh][mm]' is '+0800'.
If the local timezone is exactly UTC, '[+-][hh][mm]' will simply be a letter 'Z'.
The release (publish) time of the articles uses the format '[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]T[hh]:[mm][+-][hh][mm]'. That's the basic format without the field of second. However, if you check the bottom of each web page, you will see a page generation time stamp, where the full basic format is used.
Some Tips
When you scroll the page down, do you see the "Back To Top" tab appear on the righthand side of the top menu bar? Click it and you will be back to the top of the page, where the table of contents is.
The "Back To Top" Tab
Do you think the font size of the articles is too small or too big? If you are using a desktop, press Ctrl key and at the same time roll your mouse wheel down or up to zoom the whole page in or out.
If you have to visit the website on a mobile phone, you can try the landscape mode.
Links that take you to external websites will be opened as a new page. Links whose targets are pages in this website usually open in the current page.
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If everything went well, you would see two lines of equations and one table. If you didn't see them, or they are shown in strange ways, you can contact me by email (Scroll back to the top and click the link under "Social" on the left nevigation panel). ↩
