Archive for the 'Lazyweb' Category

The day Google stood still (on my WiFi network)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

I just finished resolving (after 3+ hours) what may be the strangest, most incomprehensible computer problem I have ever dealt with.
The background: Will and I have a wireless router to share our internet. We both have laptops in our rooms. The wireless has worked without any major problems for weeks.
And then…
All of […]

Compy woes

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

It looks like my laptop (a 3+ year old 15" 1Ghz G4 Powerbook) is in its final throes At least, the hard drive is. It keeps making clicking sounds and then crashing, much like a banshee’s shriek signaling imminent death.
I have a few options (which I’d appreciate your opinion on):

Replace the hard […]

LaTeX

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

A tree made with qtree
So, I’ve been playing a lot with LaTeX the last few days (brought on, in part, but the LSA conference), and I’m really starting to like it.
You can see the results of my playing here (pdf).
Aside from being able to easily typeset really pretty trees, tables, and OT tableaux, a really […]

Double-sided printing

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Does it really have to be this hard to print long documents double-sided?
I’m used to having access to a nice laser printer to print readings and such. It does double sided printing on the quick.
I’m home for break now, far, far away from my beloved laser printer, and I was reminded just how awful […]




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