Feb. 8th, 2007

Hmmm

Feb. 8th, 2007 07:35 pm
ellarien: Blue/purple pansy (Default)
It might be a good idea to cut back on the coffee a bit. I haven't noticed any particular ill-effects, but I seem to have drifted into consuming about two pints of the hard stuff over the course of work day, (not to mention the instant decaf that's my major source of liquids otherwise) which is probably too much.

As tends to happen when I get into writing, I'm hankering after writing tools. In my younger days, that used to mean obsessively accumulating pens and notebooks; these days it's a more high-tech yearning. Specifically, I'm pondering the possibility of using a high-end PDA and one of those folding keyboards as an on-the-go writing solution for when I don't want to carry the laptop around. Those things have almost as much computing power as Old Laptop, if not as much storage. It does seem a lot of money to accomplish a purpose that would be almost as well served by the composition book and pencil, though.
ellarien: 5x5x5 cube (puzzle)
Ambassador has reached 18,282 words.

On the other hand, after successfully writing a IDL program to create a LaTeX author index from a text file exported from an Access query and a bunch of LaTeX files (which were themselves generated from text files using another IDL program), I then broke it again trying to deal with Spanish accent codes. The Spanish names (double and triple-barrelled, and scattered with accents) give me more trouble than all the rest put together.

Hah. Firefox apparently recognizes the correct spelling/capitalization of LaTeX. Perhaps, given its open-source origins, I shouldn't be surprised. (Word doesn't, also unsurprisingly.)

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