Right guys,

The only one of my friends who'll know anything about LaTeX is
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I got back from Geneva on Friday after a working week at CERN. It was rather fun this time - I met lots of people, went to some interesting talks (the vast majority were boring and/or over my head, but to have any interesting talks at all seems rare) and ate out lots. Also, you know that colleagues have become friends when you can joke about ( Read more... )

The other day, my housemates and I were talking in the lounge, and we were saying stuff about what our day had been like, and how much housework we'd done, trying to score points off each other ( Read more... )

This lame excuse for a democratic government - here, in what is supposedly the origin of the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy - is considering suspending a key part of our human rights. That sounds wishy-washy; what it actually means is the suspension of the idea of right to liberty. It's a key part - perhaps the key part - of the idea ( Read more... )

I think I have just done in the nib on a reasonably-nice Parker fountain pen; I don't think it's worth more than £20, but it was an 18th birthday present, and I'd like it repaired. Does anyone know where to go? The Parker website isn't that helpful ( Read more... )

I just found a rather long pun. It amuses me, let's hope it amuses you lot too ( Read more... )

I turned down the opportunity to have a roast duck dinner, and meet old college friends who are now in the 'real world', in order to do work ( Read more... )

[This was not meant to be a rant, but it descended into one. Sorry. That does rather lesson its academic credibility, but there you go. It's also bloody long - meep, you know me *looks sheepish*.]

I've been reading up again on that ecological pirate of the high seas, the Nisshin Maru.

For those of you that don't know, that is the whale hunter (sorry ( Read more... )

I emailed my supervisor (handily, and as ever, not in the bloody country), and have read his response ( Read more... )

Ok guys, here's the deal: I'm running Kubuntu, and I have an external hard drive. It works fine in the sense that I can read from it - which is good, because that's where my music is. But I can't write to it - this is very bad, as the point of using it is to be able to edit stuff in both Windows and Linux. (I have two internal hard drives, one for ( Read more... )