Green & In(ter)dependence

One of the things that I've been doing is the past several days is to update my website Resonant Frequencies. Just before I retired, I had plans to do this website so that I could actually put up my own contents. Perhaps I was trying to resurrect my earlier Qfizik website hosted within UPM campus. The Qfizik site in the beginning was built on a PC with Microsoft Personal Webserver. Later I got ambitious (during the days of Multimedia Super Corridor rave), and I applied for a research grant so that I can have a proper server hosting my content using IIS (and also for running Visual C++ and WebMathematica). This is way before UPM had PutraBlast hosting course materials. In 2015, the server died and my interest in web development died with it. In 2022, before retiring, I had to be in charge of the departmental seminars and thought that I should be recording them. Finally, I decided to get my own domain and hence with it the webhosting of Resonant Frequencies. After retiring, I thought I would just maintain the domain and continue paying for the subscription.

It was later after retirement, that I thought I should add more materials (some wanted my lecture notes) particularly the notes of H.S. Green's lectures, which I thought needs saving. Green has been quite an influential figure for me due to his original ideas. I wrote about him in this post. Since the conditions of Green's lecture notes is getting poorer, I started retyping the notes in LaTeX sometime ago but could not sustain it due to heavy teaching load. Now that I'm "free", I could now continue.

So far, the first six lectures of Mathematical Methods are now available on the webpage. I wish to finish all the 22 lectures and continue to do the same for his Statistical Mechanics and Elementary Field Theory lectures. I hope I have enough energy to do this. The other concern is the expenses that come with the domain subscription. Without additional income, at some point, I guess I will have to discontinue the subscription.

So today is our Independence Day. My son Ihsan had just came back the day before. Together with him, we decided to spend this Independence Day by paying a visit to my sister in KL given that her husband had just went for a pacemaker procedure. Also met with my brother Nordin there. Learned about the health problem of my musician brother Dzafa and it sounds worrying. My prayers for him and others in the family. Given my limited resources for now (preparing for my youngest forthcoming studies), this is the least I can do.

While we celebrate independence day, above all the things that one can discuss & contemplate on, is basically interdependence. No one can survive alone and it is much more difficult to put in actions (over words) for whatever we desire. Sometime we fail to realise this, thinking solely only on what we want, not realizing this is rarely the way of the world. May Allah grant us wisdom and ease in this world and the hereafter.