Universal Rule

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Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Translating LaTeX to text -- Comment()
Hevea is a quite complete and fast LaTeX to HTML translator, according to the description. Have to check later if this is indeed the case.

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Worse Than Watergate? "Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking might lead a president to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or their intelligence to create a phony reason to lead the nation into a politically desirable war. Let us hope that is not the case." [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

Technorati search for weblogs -- Comment()
I tried out the Technocrati search for universal rule, and found the following nice quotes:

mary's little life: I have a rule about that sort of thing. I think it's a pretty universal rule really. If you have sex with someone, you have one week to initiate contact with that person or else they don't ever have to say another kind word about you.
Andrew Olmsted: Whether from environment or genetics, I've always been impressed by the moral character of my aunts, uncles and cousins. As an almost universal rule, they not only know what the right thing is, they actually do it.

Premium Blogshares -- Comment()
I upgraded my Blogshares account to premium membership, although I still have doubts about the stock-market metaphor of blogs. But the site is a fun place to visit.

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Blog Search Growing: "Well, it seems that Scott's Feedster is no longer alone. Dave Sifry's Technorati is now offering full-text search and he's already integrated it into the Technorati API." [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

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Apple Gets It Right With iTunes System: "What makes Apple's new music-distribution system so delicious (f not downright insidious) is that you don't think of it as a music distribution system. Apple has managed to fashion a near-perfect retail outlet on the Web." (AdAge.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Apple Peeling Off: "While selling a half-million songs a week isn't bad, considering the service is only available to the 3 percent of computer users with Macintosh computers, some music execs had hoped the service would sell 1 million to 2 million tracks per week." (New York Post via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]