Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Right now, I'm writing a novel. Before I started this I wondered about how I was going to write all this down, and I decided to do so using LaTeX and nano.
[caption id="attachment_268" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="My nano configuration"][/caption]
A lot of people think that nano is an editor only for ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
This is a trend I've noticed, mostly whilst working in the Library.
I've seen people talking on a mobile phone, and actually move the phone away from their ear and in front of their mouths when they speak. I don't quite understand what the point of this is - and it ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Since the start of term, I've been getting emails to my Uni account with subject lines like this:
MARKING YOUR USB
USB FOUND - PLEASE COLLECT
ANOTHER USB FOUND!!
So I decided to "mark my USB" in case I lost it in the future. I made the file "THIS_IS_A_USB.txt" on the root of the ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
As I was walking home from campus today, the playlist from shuffle mode went like this:
One - Aimee Man - A song about being lonely
Alone In Kyoto - Air
Radio #1 - Air
Move Along - All American Rejects - I'm not even sure why I have this song
Northern Birds - Amateur ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
So, I'm in the Gulbenkian with a coffee and a laptop. I took the only seat with a power point next to it, and the table next to me is occupied by Mikael Kohling, my first year Java tutor. I had to explain to a friend who came up to ...
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