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Rereading »On The Road« by Jack Kerouac
Have you ever heard of Rosebud? This is the famous clue and MacGuffin of »Citizen Kane«, the famous last words summing up the life of the magnate Charles Foster Kane. Rosebud was the name of his sledge when he was a happy child playing in the snow.
Why do we need bookmarks and Zotero?
Dear Mozilla Team, I am using Zotero to build a bibliography with Firefox. Since I have Zotero I never use bookmarks, because they lack processability. Why don't you guys join efforts with the Zotero team and create a bookmark system that can be used as a bibliographic database?
Mind posterity, author! Use a distributed version control system!
Most authors are aware of the necessity to backup their work from time to time. They burn it on cd or store it on an external backup device, but only very few use a version control system to keep track of their changes and have a backup at hand in case of hardware failure, bluescreens or human errors. But there is something better, a dsitributed version control system.
There is a whole world beyond Word
After two decades of writing on a computer I am pretty much sure that Word and similar text processing tools are the worst choice for writers. Are you able to open a 20 years old Word file? No. So you may want to hear about the world beyond Word.
Setting up a distributed version control system
If you want to use versioning, stick to a distributed version control system. Distributed means that you dont't have to install a central repository on a server, but that you can install it easily on your private computer.
Treasure Island
I've read Stevensons Treasure Island and was surprised that I could not find many words in my dictionaries.
Scrivener Screencast: How To Export To LaTeX
Scrivener is a very nice texteditor for creative writing. It is possible to export the draft to various formats, as Word, RTF, HTML or LaTeX. Because I always had some problems, when I tried to export my draft to LaTeX, I made a little screencast to show, how to achieve good results.
Bean: das Böhnchen unter den Textverarbeitungen für Mac OS X
Wem TextEdit zu spartanisch und Word bzw. NeoOffice zu schwerfällig ist, der sollte einmal Bean probieren. Bean ist das Böhnchen unter den Textverarbeitungsprogrammen für Mac OS X: vollständig in Cocoa integriert kommt es als praktisches Leichtgewicht daher.
I've finished Tristram Shandy thrice!
Since last year I have been reading Tristram Shandy, the famous masterpiece from Lawrence Sterne, and last sunday I finished this book, which still seems more modern than most of the stuff, which floods the market nowadays.
Schreiben auf dem Mac
Ich schiebe seit einiger Zeit zwei Buchprojekte vor mir her. Es will nicht so recht vorwärts gehen, was vermutlich an mir liegt. Um mich nicht mit tiefenpsychologischen Schreibhemmungen auseinandersetzen zu müssen, habe ich einen Blick auf Programme geworfen, die dem Schriftsteller das Leben erleichtern sollen. Und dabei habe ich zwei interessante Entdeckungen gemacht: Avenir und Scrivener.
Renovigo kaj translokiĝo
En printempo 2006 ni hazarde legis pri granda loĝejo en nia loka gazeto, kiun ni nur tre malofte aĉetas. Estis anonco kun ĉifro kaj mi kun malmulte da espero alskribis la homojn. Sed ili respondis, ni alrigardis la loĝejon, ili malaltiĝis la luprezon kaj ni lui finfine la loĝejon, por kiu ni pli malmulte devas pagi ol por nia malnova.