vegetarian pho Today I made the second new recipe of the year. Clare has been very excited about pho lately, but most pho restaurants don’t seem to offer a vegetarian option, so we thought we would give it a try. We mostly followed the recipe from the ellie may website, which was the first google hit for “vegetarian pho”. Clare actually did much of the work on this one. We found an Asian grocery store today, which among other things […] (Read more)

I’ve been working a lot lately on some major rewrites to all 4 of the collapsing X wordpress plugins I have written. All 4 of them now have the following features: All use the same javascript file, which will only get loaded once, in case you use more than 1 of the plugins No longer use external css files. Instead, the css styling is set through an option, which should be easier to configure, and also reduces http requests, speeding […] (Read more)

Processing a LaTeX file usually takes several steps. At a bare minimum, it usually requires 2 runs through latex (or pdflatex). Two runs are necessary in order to get cross-references and the table of contents right. Since LaTeX processes a page at a time, it can’t generate a table of contents on page 1 until it knows what sections, subsections etc. are in the rest of the file. That is what the .aux file is. Then on the second run, […] (Read more)

thanksgiving collage This is mostly a test feed to see if this works. Daniel Pritchett modified the media rss wordpress plugin to get it to work with friendfeed. You can get the code here. It seems like it just adds a thumbnail attribute to a media tag. By “working with friendfeed”, I mean that friendfeed will automatically include pictures in your feed from your blog. I’ll try my thanksgiving collage picture one more time, since I like it so much. (Read more)

thanksgiving collage I upgraded to Picasa 3 a couple weeks ago. I didn’t upgrade right away, because it took awhile for the linux version to come out. I can happily say that Picasa 3 works great under linux from my experience. It was easy to install (they had an rpm available), and it runs very nicely. It seems like it even runs a bit faster than Picasa 2.6. But best of all, it has some really cool new features. One […] (Read more)