Showing posts with label geeky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geeky. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

latex and misery

and i don't mean the kind you wear. or sit on and it sticks to your legs as you try to climb out of your k-car.

i mean the software package based on donald knuth's tex.

yes, this one is going to be boring and geeky.

and i'm having trouble with it.

you wouldn't believe the junk you get whenever you prepend your google search with ``easy''.

And people wonder why more people don't use linux and latex.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

shall and will

in my letter, i'm using shall over will as to my representation.

fowler would be pleased.

apparently, shall represents a certain certainty that will fails.

will seems to be more of a wishing thing.

all of which are tecnicalities that i don't suppose anyone will (or shall) notice. yet...

one can never be too precise.