tumble, mcdiarmid

August 27, 2008

I HAS AN OWLET 13 hours ago

August 26, 2008

Reformat the Planet

Awesome documentary on chiptunes. Not a perma-link: this week only. 1 day ago

What the HELL 1 day ago

August 25, 2008

Disabling stupid title decapitalisation in BibTeX

BibTeX for some reason converts titles from title case to sentence case. This is idiotic. It’s a fucking title! Anyway, you can work around this by enclosing your entire title in curly braces, but that’s a hack. The better way to do it is modify the appropriate .bst file, altering the format.title function. For example, for my unsrturl.bst, I changed format.title from:

FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
    { "" }
    { title "t" change.case$ }
  if$
}

to:

FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title empty$
    { "" }
    { title }
  if$
}

Then you just have to keep your bibliography in the correct format, and everything will work fine. If you ever have to submit to a journal run by idiots who require the incorrect sentence case for titles, modify the .bst file right back. 2 days ago

“ People say, ‘Well, why do we always get things last? Why can’t we say things?’ Well, I’ve said this many times before: sometimes it’s an advantage to be last in Europe, you know, when everything’s ironed out.

Sony’s David Reeves makes a watertight argument for Europe getting consoles and games months after the rest of the world. I’m convinced! 2 days ago

August 24, 2008

Another Makoto Guide

3 days ago

All About Makoto

A guide to my new favourite 3rd Strike character 3 days ago

August 22, 2008

TimeMachineEditor

Reduce the frequency of Time Machine backups to something slightly less crippling than the default 1 hour. 5 days ago