Had to convert a PDF of a poster into CMYK colour format. I wasn’t sure whether PDF natively supports it but turns out it does as of version 1.2.
Thus I went in search of open source tools that would make this happen. I first checked out OpenOffice since I used OO Impress to create the […]

The perfect man

As I’m sure I’ll come across many useful packages in debian that are useful, here is the first small but handy tool:
Package: tofrodos
Description: Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos
DOS text files traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters while Unix text files traditionally have LFs (line feeds) to […]

An annoying config error that has taken the last 3 hours to fix: When trying to delete with the DELETE or DEL key in one of Xterm, Gnome-terminal or Konsole I got the character deleted but also replaced with a tilde (~)
I ignored this for ages because the descriptions about consoles and keymapping all seemed […]

“OMG I love your new tattoo”
“Your so hot”
“OMG hi to you”
“OMG I’ve got 6700000 friends”
This is hilariously awesome.

26:30 in this mp3 mix

While writing a schema for the xml documents my simulation model accepts as input, I came across a tricky situation. How to define an element that has an attribute, but which also has plain text content between it’s tags (rather than more elements or nothing).
Since I knew very little about schemas a couple of days […]

I feel like such a teeny bopper. I’m listening to a hardcore mix of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” and actually enjoying it.
On the other hand they were playing a remix of 4Hero’s “Mr Kirk’s Nightmare” before, so that slightly redeems me (old skool means you are cool and poetic).

“Mr Kirk?”
Yes?
“Do you have a son named Robert…Robert […]

When did this get decided?
WHY WASN’T I INFORMED?

After failing to activate my copy of Windows XP x64 I had to reinstall and will make sure I do activate it now <cough cough>. However, on installation I forgot about the lovely behaviour of Windows. “I’m going to overwrite your MBR without even telling you”. My response was “Fuck off and die” but in […]

I’m glad I’m not the only child who had an obsession reading the Encyclopedia. So how about it? Hands up if you spent portions of your childhood reading the encyclopedia. I know I wanted to read through the entire set of the 1985 version of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Ok, so I gave up somewhere in A, […]