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- Customizing Multimarkdown to make Scrivener easier, part B
One little thing about the article.xslt in MultiMarkdown that I don’t like are the boring headers. For some reason (and perhaps it’s MLA style to do this), I think having the last name next to the page number looks more professional, more seriously academic, than just having page numbers. So, how can I make Scrivener […]
- Posted on May 16.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project
- Customizing MultiMarkdown to make Scrivener easier, part A
[UPDATED]
In my last post, I showed how to install the biblatex package along with the MLA style rules for the bibliography and citing in MacTeX. In a later post, I’ll discuss how to roll your own biblatex styles (hint: it’s not that difficult). But for this post, I’m making the first gestures towards the bridge […] - Posted on May 12.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project
- MLA bibliographies in MacTeX
I’m still in the proposal state, in which I’m doing two things at once: writing a 18-page document that, among other things, covers in very sparse detail a bibliography of about 150 texts. So the first part of the Humanities Dissertation Project is to be able to write in Scrivener, build a bibliography in Zotero, […]
- Posted on May 11.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project
- The Humanities Dissertation Project
I wrote a while ago that computing blogs bore me. This is still true. But this is a project not of telling you, the reader, about new gadgets or my complaints about various forms of software. Instead, this is documentation. I am documenting the technical means by which I am constructing my dissertation in the […]
- Posted on May 11.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project
- How to write a simple English / Humanities paper in LaTeX
Congratulations! You’re sick of Microsoft Word! This post is a very quick and dirty introduction to writing a regular, run of the mill English/Humanities college essay or term paper using LaTeX. I’ll show you how to get the software, write the paper, format it, put together the bibliography / works cited, and generate the pdf […]
- Posted on May 05.08 to Computing, Music, Snobbery
- iPhone Poundup
Both writing and reading computer blog posts bore me, but occasionally it is useful to put up something to stimulate discussion. So today there are two things up: iPodia and the woeful state of the Address Book.app.
Probably 90% of my use of Safari on the iPhone is split between Facebook and Wikipedia (though now that […] - Posted on Mar 02.08 to Computing
- Blueteething
So far, I’ve only really used Bluetooth to enable dialup to the University’s modem pool from my laptop. Occasionally, I’ve used it a little bit for file transfers; I don’t know how else I could possibly get photos from the camera to the computer, even though those photos are, of course, always already terrible (but […]
- Posted on Nov 05.05 to Computing
- We’ll See…
In trying to rein in the India-pr0n-related traffic to this site, I’ve now added this to the <Directory> tag:
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “^http://.*(bollywood|actress|names)” smut_hunt=1
Order deny,allow
deny from env=smut_hunt
Go on. Give it a try. Enjoy that 403, you horny billion men! - Posted on Jul 20.05 to Computing
- .in-dotted
A while ago, I wrote about how, because of the referrer loop on my page, I became the #1 hit for a certain Bollywood actress not wearing any clothing. I thought it was kind of funny as the comments to that post just kept growing and growing. But, of course, these things are geometric. So […]
- Posted on Jul 19.05 to Computing
- Become a Statistic!
Got this via Jett:
- Posted on Jul 07.05 to Computing
- iPod Updated!
It’s a small step, but an appreciated one. Only a few short weeks after my whining about the support for different writing systems on the iPod, Apple has released a new iPod update to take into account the new version of iTunes, 4.9. Among the unlisted upgrades is support for, at least, Lithuanian letters. Devanagari […]
- Posted on Jun 28.05 to Computing
- Dialup Anytime, Anywhere
I recently aquired a PowerBook, and one of the first things I wanted to do was to get it to use Bluetooth to dial into the internet. Sure, I have wireless ethernet at home, and cable, and whatever. But what about when I’m out in the boonies?
Anyway, the task was, indeed, much larger than I […] - Posted on Jun 24.05 to Computing
- K4R33N4 K4P00R NUDE!!!
I’ve always figured that it’s kind of neat to see what kinds of referrals get people to come to this webpage. For the longest time, it was people looking for lyrics to a song from Euro-Trip. Now, I did not provide the lyrics, or anything, but, still, people kept clicking. No one ever commented, of […]
- Posted on Jun 08.05 to Computing
- iPod (mini): A Review
I have now been fundamentally engaged with an iPod for over a year. I bought a 40gb last winter, and then I slammed a car door on it in October, smashing it so fundamentally that Apple refused to work on it at all. I sat on my fingers for the rest of the autumn, but […]
- Posted on Apr 28.05 to Computing
