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Monthly Archives: July 2008
More details emerge on the
Posted by on July 31, 2008
More details emerge on the Antikythera mechanism.
I hadn’t looked at LyX
Posted by on July 25, 2008
I hadn’t looked at LyX in a long time, and it has gotten really good. By now it may be the way to do LaTeX without a lot of complexity, on any platform.
tip to microsoft marketing: if you’re going to try sell me something, don’t start by calling me an idiot
Posted by on July 22, 2008
on the new MS vista campaign. Comment on the ad and also on the details “translating” their material such as “but some of you complained” to “we know that even Bill Gates couldn’t make this stuff work…”
the dark knight: spectacular
Posted by on July 19, 2008
In Alan Moore’s 1988 masterpiece The Killing Joke we got the clearest vision yet of the Joker as Batman’s “dark side,” and a Joker that was as vicious and demented as anything we had ever seen. Until The Dark Knight, that is. The movie borrows narrative strands from some of the best Batman graphic [...]
iphone 3G battery life tips
Posted by on July 17, 2008
As I mentioned in my earlier post, the battery life of the iPhone 3G was a complete disaster for me, but I had noticed this is the old iPhone with the new firmware as well, so I did some experiments. Apple has a list of things you can do to improve battery life which is, if [...]
the obligatory iPhone 3G review
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Yes, yes, I belong to the fraternity of lost souls that queued up over the weekend to get His Steveness’ shiny new toy. Having had an iPhone for a year now I’ve increasingly used the browser more and more, and a few times I’ve used the maps+search feature to find something close to where I [...]
defender of the favicon
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Defender of the Favicon. Defend away at a glorious 16×16 resolution!
