Latest Update: I’ve attached the original OpenOffice Draw file to the bottom of the page now, too, so people can modify it for different paper sizes and such like. This is a template for nowMaps – quick visual overviews of what’s on your mind. To find out what a nowMap is, and how to use …
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Last month’s news but still worth thinking about: It started about midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a District of Columbia home. That’s when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at …
Latest Update: I’ve attached the original OpenOffice Draw files to the bottom of the page now, too, so people can modify these for different paper sizes and such like. This is a template for nowMaps – quick visual overviews of what’s on your mind. To find out what a nowMap is, and how to use …
Zooooooom! The Dollman with a big, big plane between his legs–big for The Dollman, anyway–heads straight for his gape-mouthed bald-headed vilain–The Undertaker! (click for a closer look)It’s Dollman Monday!
If you were happy to find that the new Office 2007 equation editor is a lot more like LaTeX, and that equations didn’t look as bad in Word as before, think again. Microsoft is pushing a proprietary markup language (OOXML) that clashes with what Nature and Science own typesetters use, so they will simply reject the paper. This might be a …
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I’ve been publishing this blog for almost three years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a difference in approaches in covers for the US and UK markets. US is on top, UK on the bottom. And here’s a link to the Guardian UK review so that you can begin to try to figure …
I’ve spend quite a bit of time over the years talking about the importance of making decisions, and how to keep to them. And today I want to return to the subject. One of the problems most of us face is that we are so busy dealing with everyday decisions that we never take the time …
The Trikke is a machine you ride and propel by wiggling your body in a way that’s Zen training on three wheels. It puts into direct use the conservation of angular momentum – if you carry a mass through a turn around a center with a radius that decreases while you’re turning, then your linear …
The underused caret (shift + 6) is an excellent tool for managing file versions. If you’ve got several versions of a file to track and no full-blown version control system to use, just append the caret and a version number to the file name. Tech site WorldStart.com explains that this method of versioning makes it …
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