Today I was working on revisions to my dissertation, and I wanted to test something out in my slick two column layout, and was surprised when my document would not compile. After about a half an hour of commenting and uncommenting parts, and seeing the same error over and over again, \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink I narrowed down the problem to some citations that I had. I had one \citep command with two arguments, one […] (Read more)

I have recently been trying to transition from Mac to Linux, with much success for the most part, but a few hiccups as well, as is to be expected. One of the important uses of the computer for me is photo editing and sharing, especially since we got our Canon Rebel XT last year, which takes absolutely beautiful pictures. I had developed a fairly nice workflow on my Mac for photo editing and sharing, consisting of: Import pictures from camera […] (Read more)

I broke it again!! I had Kubuntu 7.04 beta running nicely, except for a few things which didn’t work. So I tried to install Fedora 7 beta on my second hard drive (we’ll call it drive B), and somehow messed up the Kubuntu install, though I was able to get much of the important files (home directory mostly) from the messed up Kubuntu drive to the Fedora drive. Then I had the Fedora drive working nicely, except for the soundcard […] (Read more)

Around Christmas time, I was taking it easy for a bit, browsing the web and such, and started drooling over Apple’s upcoming products – a new operating system, and of course increasingly fast and cool machines. I bought a 1.5 GHz G4 Powerbook in December 2005, to replace my 800 MHz G3 iBook that I bought in March 2003. I figured that graduating from grad school would be a nice time to get a new computer. I was thinking about […] (Read more)

Today I gave my advisor the draft of the final chapter of my dissertation, which I have been working on fervently for the last week or so. I decided that I deserved a little break before getting back to the grindstone of implementing comments from my advisor. I decided to spend some time working on the two column layout of my dissertation. Two columns! You may be thinking that I am crazy. Certainly my institution wouldn’t allow me to use […] (Read more)