The post-xmas pre-new year lull. I’ve come into work to clear up the lab, catch up on some papers I need to read and feed the fish. I’m doing this instead of staying home, clearing up there and catching up on books I need to read. The building is slient, so I think I’ll turn …
Author Archives: dtl
Boredom at work
Boredom at work is a bad thing, it leads to spending a day making things like this work: (taken in late October – no glue or trickery involved. It collapsed seconds after I took the photo)
Chip and PIN
I’d just like to express my gratitude to the inventor of chip and PIN. It has saved me lots of money so far this xmyth period. The simple reason for this is that I haven’t a clue what my credit card PIN is. Best invention EVAR! (excluding: sliced bread, the Sinclair Spectrum, painkillers, beer, etc)
Note to self:
Using a razor blade as a screwdriver really is a bad idea. The kind of bad idea that leaves you holding you hand up high while someone applies superglue and a plaster to your finger.
mimeTeX
Ah the joy of being able to typeset proper equations in a ‘blog. I installed mimeTeX a while ago, but didn’t do anything with it right away so I forgot about it. I was just doing some admin on the server that hosts this site when I discovered I had mimeTeX still installed. I will …