• Thoughts

    Why open file formats matter

    by  • Sunday 22 August 2010 • Thoughts • 0 Comments

    Cleaning up on my hard drive, I came across a couple of .wks (MS Works spreadsheet) documents from 1994-95. I don’t really need to get at the contents of these files right now, but I think it could be useful to be able to open them at some point. So I tried to see...

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    Writing complex documents

    by  • Wednesday 18 August 2010 • Thoughts • 2 Comments

    I have been using LaTeX for most of my more advanced writing needs for so many years, that I tend to forget that there are so few other good options out there for writing what could be called “complex” documents, i.e. book-sized documents with a good portion of notes, pictures, links, etc. I just...

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    UiO goes social 2

    by  • Wednesday 18 August 2010 • Thoughts • 0 Comments

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    A few weeks ago I mentioned that University of Oslo now openly supports RSS- and Twitter-feeds from the official employee web sites. Now I see that social linking has also been embedded in the new profile, as can be seen for example here. These types of links have been around for some years, but many...

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    UiO goes social and opens for blogging

    by  • Monday 21 June 2010 • Thoughts • 1 Comment

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    University of Oslo is brushing up the web pages this year, and now the turn has come to my department. When I updated my official profile I found (to my big surprise) that it is possible to include RSS and Twitter feeds. Wow, not bad, not bad at all! I am very happy that...

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