Craving for crumpets…
If there’s one type of food that I miss from England, after having moved back to Holland 16 months ago, it is definitely Warburtons crumpets.
Today, a high-school friend living in Surrey, who is over for the Easter holiday, brought me three packs, which should be enough to satisfy my craving for crumpets for a while. Too bad you can’t store them for years like, e.g. macaroni.
While he was over, he also showed me his new gadget, an HP 850 digital camera, quite an impressive thing. With 256 Mb it can take 116 pictures at the highest resolution, 2200 x 1700, or 4 times as many (which is 464 photos!) at 1100 x 850.
And last but not least, he also brought me a copy of the new Mandrake version (9.1). As soon as I’ve finished those reports at the end of this month, I’m making a full backup of my system and installing this distribution…
A nice book
Lest I forget:
below are the details of a nice book that I borrowed from the library, and wanted to renew, but someone else already reserved it. So I’ll have to buy myself some time.
Itoh, Makiko.: JavaScript + CSS + DOM magic. Indianapolis New Riders 2002. 306 blz.
It’s especially useful for its coverage of CSS and CSS-P, which is why I borrowed it.
So this is also an experiment in using a blog for all kinds of notes which are guaranteed to go missing when I need them.
LaTeX or pdflatex?
Choices, choices…
Should I use LaTeX or pdflatex for writing, processing, and printing my report? Both have their pros and cons…
Latex (& ps2pdf):
+ faster processing during writing
+ correct page layout
+ line drawings can be included as EPS
- must make EPS from bitmaps: lots of space
- resulting .ps file is huge: takes ages to print
- needs xdvi / Ghostscript for viewing
- not full-text searchable ?
pdflatex:
+ no need to make EPS bitmaps: saves space
+ resulting .pdf file is small: quick printing
+ can be viewed in Acroread everywhere
+ full-text searchability
- slower during writing
- funny page layout / scaling
- line drawings cannot be included as EPS
Anyone know more (dis)advantages?
