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Says Mira Maier, founder of MyStipendium.de:
One in five foundations does not receive suitable applications, thus they don’t know
Says Mira Maier, founder of MyStipendium.de:
One in five foundations does not receive suitable applications, thus they don’t know
The Guardian has a very interesting and insightful article on »The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy« by Naomi Wolf.
In her article she
[update 2012-10-04] In the meantime, I helped Nic with what he calls scratching some itches for ex-Google-Reader users: we now have
The Guardian has a piece on the »unfortunate shooting« of Indian anti-corruption activist Shehla Masood.
Want to create a Fedora live USB from ubuntu or make a pen drive with ubuntu in Fedora? Sick of instaling liveusb-creator under ubuntu or usb-creator
There are many helpful photography resources out there, these are the ones I found most useful:
To keep track of inspiring photographers I started this list – because nothing else worked.
Website: www.andessner.com
Austrian fine artist. Collaborates
Statistician Nic Marks gave a really interesting talk on happiness at TED. Starting from the observation that at the moment we focus too much on the
Today I found a second way to achieve a strikethrough in LaTeX (what is done by »line-through« in css: strike
I have phases in my work cycle, where I want to limit internet access to myself. Thus, I created a »work-user« and in the user’s properties
I was somewhat flabberghasted when I found out my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot) was unable to play .mp4, .flv, .avi and what else I tried.
In September 2009 I started collecting not so artsy street art that makes me smile and add an image once in a while.
In short: To avoid the standard pixel bitmap fonts and go for smooth, scalable post script ones, use one of the following:
\usepackage{palatino}
My new job includes attending the odd job interview now and again. Today we had an applicant scheduled for 11 a.m. It turned eleven and it turned five
In css there is the handy absolute positioning. Today I found out how to do it in LaTeX:
In the preamble
\usepackage{textpos}
In the document
\begin{textblock}{2}[0,0](8,1.5) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \end{textblock}The arguments
This last weekend I understood a lot about the internet food chain: There are the smart guys and there are the monkeys. The smart guys find out how
I left biting marks in the table on this one. I don’t know if it’s a general issue or just my document. Anyway:
I wanted to have footnotes
After graduation naturally comes application. Now it seems that application naturally comes with frustration.
Each and every company knows exactly what
Yesterday we arrived in London for a short holiday. In the early evening we were rambling the streets, not sure what to do. When at last we made our
Only today I did use stairs.
By default LaTeX starts the footnote counter at zero for each chapter when you use the class {book} or {scrbook}. If you want to avoid that and have
There are various possibilities to include Greek text in your LaTeX document. The three ones I found are these:
$\Gamma\rho\varepsilon\varepsilon\kappa$
gets you Γρεεκ allright, but it looks clumsy and lacks all the accents etc.Nos. 2 & 3 use ngerman, so make sure they don’t start a fight with german.
I had a slight problem with polutonikogreek and titletoc. Whenever I used something like
\greek{p’olemos}which referred to this entry in the preamble:
\newcommand*{\greek}[1]% {\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek}{#1}% \selectlanguage{german}}the .toc-file looked like this at the corresponding place:
[…] \contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}KAPITEL-1.1}{14} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.1}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.1}{14} \select@language {polutonikogreek} \select@language {german} \select@language {polutonikogreek} \select@language {german} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.2}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.2}{20} […]Wherever \select@language
appeared in the toc, the styling of my toc entries of the subsection level was being messed up. I style subsection entries in the toc in a way that they all get written in a single line. It looks like this:
\titlecontents*{subsection}[3.5em]
{\vspace{-0.5mm}\itshape\footnotesize}{}%
{}{\dots\normalfont\footnotesize%
While working on a somewhat larger scale document I always end up with numerous prints, .dvis,
In the course of writing my thesis I came across Nimrod, grandson of Ham, great grandson of Noah (Gen 10, 1-12). Now Nimrod is not only »a mighty hunter
From a time when intellect apparently sold:
»Then I grab a TEXAS…« says Prof. WILLI BAUMEISTER of the Academy of Arts Stuttgart Combining flavour and sweetness so auspiciously, she regains my sympathy each day anew.« »Whenever a whole lot of thoughts is at work within my head, I grab a Texas, who became a dear friend of mine.Then again: maybe intellect didn’t sell all that well, or did you ever come into a situation