That said, the using the idea of fractals metaphorically, and experiencing the vastness of the Mandelbrot set by exploring it with computer programs, has given me an idea of how simple rules and a small amount of information can result in complex results. For example, the idea that something as small as DNA could lead to something as complex as a lifeform is a little bit more comprehensible to me, though still quite mysterious.

As for the idea of the universe being recreated, I think Sir Roger Penrose has done some work on what might have happened before the Big Bang, and it looks like, from preliminary results, that there are echoes of another universe.

1. Changing the Favicon
This step was simple when I did it. I deleted the one that came with the Barecity theme and uploaded my own, using the same filename favicon.ico, to the Barecity theme folder.

I wonder if you have actually successfully changed it, but your browser has a copy of the old one cached. Have you deleted your browser’s temporary and long term caches? Have you looked at the site from a different browser or computer?

Depending on your browser, you can sometimes hold the SHIFT key and click on the Reload button with the mouse, and it will reload the page completely without relying on the cache. It’s a quick way to check, but if it doesn’t work, not definitive. It’s better to clear the browser cache manually, since the shift-reload won’t necessarily update all of the elements in the page if they are coming from different sites.

2. Deleting the inverted comma below the slogan/header

I assume you mean the one that looks like this: »

I got rid of it by deleting

»

from the header.php file in this section.

<div id="desc">        
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ? rel="nofollow">/">&raquo;<?php bloginfo('description'); ?></a>
</div>

I wish you success, and I hope this helps.

1. Seeing, that you changed your favicon makes me blush as everytime I try to replace the default favicon with a self generated one, the old one reproduces itself. Even upon deleting the favicon.ico in my ftp folder, the old favicon still seems to work in the browser. Any ideas on that problem?

2.How did you delete the inverted comma below the slogan/header?

Thanks for your time and help!
Jen

What everyone is saying about young families in the IT industry or starting out in Waterloo in whatever new jobs, who wish to be close enough to their work to bus/bike/walk is likely quite true- but the same goes for students!

Most students don’t have cars, and therefore need to be within reasonable distance to on of the Universities (Laurier or Waterloo), but the sad fact is that student housing is not being well managed.

It is extremely difficult to find student housing for a group smaller than 5 people. My housemates and I had to look for months to find a place that would rent to a group of 3. Small student homes simply do not exist currently, which needs to be addressed by the city.

Due to the overacceptance rates at Waterloo, more and more upper year students are being forced to live off campus every year as the university slowly converts all on campus residences to first-year only buildings. And sadly, the solution seems to be to stuff more people into buildings like the ones in Northdale (in my second year I lived in 3 storey a house with 10 students- it was absolutely ridiculous and in complete disrepair)

Overall, I think the city should be collaborating with the universities to ensure their students are taken care of, because if the students are being treated like sh*t, what motivation do they have to give back to their communities (which is not to say that I agree with the behaviour of the “rowdy” students, just that it is fairly predictable)