Recruiter Spawns Huge E-mail List
This blog post say’s it all:
Olympic Peninsula
Here are a few photos of the olympic peninsula. I went hiking there this weekend.
I’m trying out the live spaces slideshow widget here.
Windows Live Spaces
Alphabetical Bibliography Ordering with Word 2007 ISO690 Numerical Style
In the course of preparing my senior thesis, we ran into a bit of trouble using Word 2007’s built in Bibliography tools. While on the whole they provided a much nicer experience than third party tools such as RefWorks, we were initially unable to define the bibliography style as our Advisor requested.
The closest available style was ISO690 Numerical which inserts citations like ‘(1)’, and orders the references in the bibliography in the order in which they are cited. Our advisor requested that citations look like ‘[1]’ and the references be in alphabetical order.
Initially we tackled the problem by modifying the .XSL style sheet. With this we were successfully able to change the perentheses to square brackets, and do some minor reordering of the fields in the bibliography, but try as we might we couldn’t get it to order alphabetically.
In the end we devised a work-around that, while a bit hacky still solves the problem until Microsoft (hopefully) updates the bibliography feature in Office 14.
In the beginning of our document we inserted citations to all of our sources in the order in which we desired them to show up in the bibliography. Then we just changed the text to be white on a white background.
Along with the minor .XSL tweaks we now were able to automatically generate the bibliography with whatever ordering we wanted.
Hello From Budapest
I am currently in Hungary finishing up my last requirement to graduate in May. It is some very interesting work to do with searching large Game trees such as for the East Asian game Go. Myself and my partner are working with one of the top people in the field so it is very exciting.
There are a few photographs up (see the photos link to the right), but as a teaser, here is a photostich of the view from the top of Janos Hegy just outside of Budapest itself:
Safari '@' Rendering Issues
Updated
Interestingly enough this problem seemed to resolve itself. (Perhaps after a reboot). At any rate hopefully it won’t be coming back.
Original Post
Here is an interesting bug in the latest version of Safari:
Rendering this code:
<html> <body style="font-family: Verdana;"> hello@hello.com </body> </html>
Only shows "hellohello.com" in Safari on OS X 10.5.0
Vista + Hardware Upgrade + DRM = No Dice
This weekend I decided to try using the Zune Marketplace as I had some extra Microsoft points lying around. I initially budgeted 10 minutes to this task but apparently I was foolhardy to think it would be that easy.
After trying to sign in to the Zune marketplace with my Passport Windows Live ID, I receive the helpful message along the lines of ‘Error 87, Please try again later’.
To make a long story short, the next day and 3 hours of phone support later, my own investigations on google (while waiting on hold) led me to the fact that upgrading my hardware would disable DRM on Vista, and all of Microsoft’s instructions for resetting the software were a dead end. Finally I found a helpful blog entry which pointed to a tool that the Napster online music store provides to reset the DRM.
So 36 hours after first trying to purchase and download a song I finally was successful. But seriously, is it really necessary to disable DRM and make me go through all this pain merely because of a CPU upgrade?
If someone reaches this article after searching with regards to this problem here is the link to the blog entry that finally solved it for me:
Long Time No Post
So it has been a while and now I’m back out on the west coast again. I’m heading back to school in a couple weeks but I thought I could at least post a photo or something.
Below is a shot of the San Juan Islands taken this weekend when I went out there with some friends. It was taken from the walkway coming off the ferry at Anacortes Ferry Terminal.
Thailand!
Hello from Thailand. For those of you who are interested you can view my photos from Thailand using the photos link to the left.
These should be updated periodically.
What you can do with Windows Vista!
Check out what you can do with Windows Vista. You can make your windows pink, and have bubbles and a unicorn background!
Dr Scheme
Well after a long night of rehearsals and an AI project, at least Dr. Scheme was able to give me some enjoyment. Apparently I’m not allowed to quit :).
