Year: 2009
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Vim regex-fu for LaTeX
When writing a beamer presentation with LaTeX, I organize my presentation into sections and subsections. Frequently, the title of the first frame (slide) in a subsection has the same name as the subsection. Let’s say I start off with the following structure: \section[corpora]{Accessing text corpora} \subsection[gutenberg]{The Gutenberg Corpus} \subsection[chat]{The web and chat Corpus} \subsection[brown]{The Brown…
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Energy usage myth
Recently I heard some sort of public service announcement about energy usage. I don’t recall where I heard it, but I was struck by one part of it. Two kids were talking about energy usage, and one mentioned that your cell phone charger still draws power, even if your cell phone is not plugged in.…
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Black bean quesadillas
Black bean quesadilla with pico de gallo Black bean quesadillas with pico de gallo Last week we had lots of fresh tomatoes, so Clare told me I should make pico de gallo, and some mexican food. We make burritos fairly frequently, so I thought it would be fun to make something slightly different. We happened…
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Writing your own custom filters for postie
In version 1.3.1 of postie, it is now easy to add custom filters to the content of your posts. Best of all, by using filters, you can easily write your own plugin, which will not be affected by upgrades to postie (as opposed to modifying the postie functions directly). There are two examples now included…
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Blogging with LaTeX
The first question on reader’s mind must be — why use LaTeX to blog? Well, I have a pretty specific instance in mind, but I can imagine that others might be interested as well. This fall I am teaching a course on computational corpus linguistics at CU Boulder. I like to have some materials online…