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Thursday, March 13, 2003
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n'PINE debuts MathMagic Pro 3.5 for InDesign: "n'PINE, Inc. this week released MathMagic Pro 3.5 for Adobe InDesign 2.0, which includes the MathMagic Pro application, MathMagic Plug-in, and TrueType & Postscript fonts. MathMagic is a mathematical equation editor that supports WYSIWYG editing and many powerful features for high-end desktop publishing. The new Pro Edition supports StyleSet management, storage of Style and Size settings, TeX import, Equation export as EPS & PICT, new keyboard shortcuts, wheel mouse under Mac OS X, and other new features. Single-user pricing starts at $700." [The Macintosh News Network] I wonder if this tool has a large market. I would prefer using custom-made LaTeX templates, but of course this wouldn't suit all.
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Trusted Blog Search: "Micah has simplified his microblogosphere search tool, which he calls Trusted Blog Search. It's really simple. You feed it the URLs for your blog and for your subscriptions file, and it gives you a piece of Javascript that you can copy into your home page template. Afterwards you can search spheres centered around your blog with radius 0 (my blog), 1 (blogs I read), and infinity (the Web). [...] If you try it, be sure to put in the slash following your blog's URL in the customization box." [Seb's Open Research]
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Lecturing to the Gray Panthers of Finnish IT -- Comment()
Yesterday I made a half-hour lecture to the so-called Gray Panthers of the Finnish Information Processing Association. The audience consisted of ten retired gentlemen (no women, which was not a surpise) with high-profile careers in the Finnish IT sector: ex-CEOs of big IT companies, or otherwise influential figures in Finnish IT. This Gray Panther group has been active for about three years. The group regularly visits interesting IT sites to find out what currently happens in Finland. This time the meeting started with a quiet moment, because one member of the group had recently passed away. My lecture was in Finnish and titled "Computational Science Today: Supercomputers and Databases". It was nice to lecture to this group, because there were a lot of questions (to the point!) and comments. Perhaps my rate of lecturing was a bit fast, but I think I managed to give a relatively clear picture of current developments in computational science in Finland, especially in biosciences, chemistry, and drug discovery.
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What is a weblog in Finnish? -- Comment()
The English-Finnish IT glossary gives the following translation: weblog omaloki This translation is controversial. There are other terms in use, in addition to the English-based words 'weblogi' or 'blogi': 'nettipäiväkirja', 'verkkopäiväkirja' and 'verkkoloki'. (A comment in Finnish: Mutta ei tuo 'omaloki' mielestäni ihan mahdoton sekään ole.)
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