Beamer Example

Below is a short example of how to make a presentation using the Beamer Class for LaTeX. I’ve been using this for about 2 years and only just became competent, but if you are less likely to leave things to the last minute than me – which you most likely are – you can probably [...]

Dividing a line

Here is a solution I found for dividing a line in 3 (or any other number of divisions) using a compass and a straight edge. First construct a line at right angles to the line you want to divide, use the compass to make the line the same length as the first line. Then use [...]

Honest Spam

I just received the most honest spam, subject line “[[utf-8] Phishing] – You’ve received a question about eBay item: @NEW designer DKNY latest watch with diamond spring 08@ (110243158561)“. Either this spam is filtered and marked as phishing, but still allowed into my inbox, which I don’t understand. Or the spammers are really using ‘Phishing’ [...]

Good News for Ugly men and Beautiful women.

A new study shows that physically less attractive men make better partners. In couples were the man was less attractive than the woman, both partners were more supportive to the another. Full story reported at Yahoo news. I think these results interested and in need of further experimental validation.

Example script: Making thumbnails

Here is an example script to make jpg thumbnail images from all the jpgs in a directory. It relies on having the linux ‘convert’ package installed on the machine. #/bin/sh for img in `ls *.jpg` do convert -sample 25%x25% $img thumb-$img done