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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Weekly acquisitions

Thursday, September 7, 2006

The Black Seeds, Keep on pushing LP. (No, it’s not a book, smart-elec. Now get out of my house.) The Black Seeds, Into the Dojo. (No, this isn’t a book either. What are you doing still here?) And no books! What an odd week it’s been…

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LaTeX math mode and italics

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

It’s an awfully simple rule: Don’t put words (of more than one letter) in pure math mode. This should be carved into the monitor of every mathematician and (particularly) computer scientist who ever wrote a paper in LaTeX. Don’t use math mode for words. Don’t (don’t you dare) use math mode for italics.

Why not?

The spacing [...]

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Black Seeds, Utrecht, Wednesday

Monday, September 4, 2006

The Black Seeds played last night at Blijburg, and it went off (as expected). The festival atmosphere was awesome, laid-back and hippie, and by the second song they had I reckon everyone on the entire terrain crammed up in front of the stage rocking out. It was lovely to see the feedback loop, as the [...]

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Jazz at the Bimhuis

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Last night was Baseline (Hein Van de Geyn, Ed Verhoeff and Hans van Oosterhout) and John Abercrombie, a lovely gig. It hit just the right tone for me, enough original compositions and serious soloing to be out-of-the-ordinary, but still not really experimental in the “I’m lost” sense. Still, they were on-to-it enough that it felt [...]

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