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 I've been trying to fix this issue for over two years now, and finally figured out a solution.  The problem was that I was trying to ge...

 Solely for my own benefit, some updates to how to create PDFs from Latex/Overleaf that meet the PDF/A standard required by various publishe...

In some ways, it's thoroughly reassuring that journalists are prepared to put the level of effort and research necessary to create an a...

About a decade and a half ago, I was desperately seeking a Black Box Recorder cover version of "Is that all there is?".  Still n...

The dubiously reliable internal counter for this blog indicates that this is the one thousandth entry. To mark this entirely arbitrary numb...

Iain "Duncan" Smith is increasingly starting to sound like John Lloyd.  One is a legendary producer of laughable, satirical mater...

People who use "epsfig". It's 2008, folks! Use \includegraphics, for goodness sake. [This is a post that seems to have go...

In the words of Republica, "I know my ex-boyfriend lies, oh he does it every time". In this case, it's a credit card. And n...

As I was asking barely 15 years ago, " What would happen if Jack Black met Jack White (the White stripes)? " As it turns out, a...

These are useful numbers to use if you are dealing with POTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_announcement_circuit

It's been a while, but guess what?  It's time for more exciting notes on manipulating PDFs for preparation of scientific documents!...

A frantic email sidles its way into my inbox: I know this might come as a suprise to you,but I made a quick trip to Madrid in Spain and was ...

Another erroneous email comes flooding into my inbox. Hey gary and carol!! I'm not sure if you got my texts, my phone is acting strange ...

Simon was an unremarkable boy, who grew up in an unremarkable town and went to an unremarkable school. One day a remarkable thing happened ...

...I met: A 40-year old black man in Plymouth The ward sister in a paediatric hospital in Cardiff A woman in Crosby who had been burgled My ...

Another post more for my own benefit and future reference. epstopdf often rotates figures that you'd prefer it didn't. That's ...

For no one's real interest, but because I've done this for the past couple of years, here are all the films that I watched on NetFli...