I posted about the Australian bag producing company Crumpler before.
Clicking through their catalogue, I found another hilarious marketing moment. I honestly wonder how they come up with such bag naming conventions …
Month: December 2003
Synchronization
Even though I wrote earlier that my prefered TeX environment is iTeXMac, I switched back again to TeXShop. Mostly because I had the impressions it’s faster and somewhat more light weight.
They added a new feature, which definitely makes my day: synchronisation. It means, you can select a line in a tex file and get transfered to the corresponding line in your pdf file and the other way round. A feature I honestly admire.
(To use that feature, you need to install at least version 1.34. Within the distribution package comes a file pdfsync.sty. Move that file to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. If the folders don’t exist, create them. In your root tex file add \usepackage{pdfsync} to the preamble. It only works when you use pdflatex, by holding down the command key.)
Some more TeX gnagna in the PurpleLib.
Unace
Once in a while I come along an ace compressed file and up until now I either had to search for a pc *grmbl* or trash it without having had a look at its contents.
Here comes the solution …
Geek stuff …. again
X-Mas ready
I’m a desktop background picture fetish. I change mine at least every several weeks. Sometimes weekly according to my mood.
Of course to get ready for x-mas (the older I get the less x-mas feeling evolves by itself … ), I needed a nice desktop picture:
Scott helped me out with his 2003 version.
Chicks in Zurich
Rocket and Nastasia did a photoshot for Shift (a Japanese ezine).
The topic was Girls on the street in Zurich. I wonder how people from other countries feel about Zurician chick style. From my point of view I perceive them as trendy, a bit discrete, but still interesting.
Chicken Tex
My x-mas present to Marius (my powerbook) and actually to myself as well … is a crumpler notebook bag (sold at Tomac in Zurich).
Surfing their website, I learned that my bag is enhanced with Chicken Tex:
20min & Kaywa
Spirituality
Yesterday night I was discussing what spirituality is. I had actually no clue what an official definition would be and started to babble about my ideas. As this is a very emotional and personal topic by nature, the discussion ended in a rather strange way.
This morning I was still thinking about it and went to have a look at what the wikipedia has to say about spirituality.
I was quite surprised to find an explanation that suits very much to my ideas (no, I didn’t write it myself :)). As I have no clue if their community might change it some time or other, I copied it:
