Skip to content

Monthly Archives: August 2008

Thesis-writing in LaTeX

I’ve spent a bit of time organising my LaTeX setup for maximal dissertatory efficiency. Mainly I want a system that lets me put definitions somewhere sensible (a thesis.sty package), but also makes it easy to typeset chapters individually to hand around, without duplicating definitions or having to hand-edit files for book or single-chapter output. I’ve [...]

Heartburn and the elephant

Possibly the best band name ever to come to me in a dream. Bonus for the eagle-eyed: I’m not sure if the dream original was singular or plural. I’m also not sure which would be better.

Esslli quote of the day

I have the feeling that he’s cutting a pumpkin with a pair of shoes, only sometimes it’s not a pumpkin at all. —Gianluca

Here comes Hamburg!

Heading off to Hamburg tomorrow for ESSLLI. Posting will be even more sporadic than usual.