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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Repeated Links in Org Mode
The tireless Artur Malabarba has shown us how to make custom Org links for special purposes before (1, 2). Now he shows us how to implement Markdown links. The point here is that with Markdown, you define a link and … Continue reading
Crossword
For all you puzzle constructors out there: How to create a crossword puzzle in LaTeX http://t.co/0BdZcYhRyA — TeX tips (@TeXtip) July 7, 2015 The cwpuzzle makes it really easy to typeset a crossword puzzle. If you want to try your … Continue reading
Emacs for Professional Writers
Last time, I wrote about how Bin Chen writes in Org mode and exports the final document to Word doc format. Most engineers are spared the indignity of having to produce Word documents but if you’re a writer producing anything … Continue reading
How to Convert from Org to Word
If you’re like me, you’d rather take a pencil in the eye than write using Word or any of its evil spawn. Sometimes, though, you really need to deliver a doc file. Even in a lead engineer position I sometimes … Continue reading
Lenovo Again
Remember all those apologies from Lenovo after their stealth installation of the SuperFish adware was revealed? Apparently they didn’t really mean them. As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Unless … Continue reading
A Word to the Wise
Advertisers: clean up your act or look forward to a future like this Ad exec in 2000: Annoying ads perform better. in 2010: Ads based on tracking users perform better. in 2017: Why are all our ads blocked? — Brian Smith (@BRIAN_____) … Continue reading
Where Work Goes to Die
Swizec Teller has an amusing article in DZone on Why Offices Are Where Work Goes to Die. The article is, as I say, amusing but it also mines several nuggets of truth. Irreal, as you doubtless know to your sorrow, … Continue reading
The No Irony Zone
@drkjam @fgunay1 pic.twitter.com/ZH486vRxzR — Orestis Bastounis (@MrBastounis) July 17, 2015