Month: January 2009

  • Getting LaTex word count which ignores footnotes

    I’ve been wrighting my essays in LaTex every since I discovered that it made footnoting and other various items easier. The one thing it made harder, however, was doing the word-count. Wanting to know how far through my 5000 word essay I was, I started trying to work out how. Lots of people say things…

  • Death Playing Chess

    While writing and essay based on the film Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, I started trying to track down where the idea comes from that you can play Death for your soul. It’s an interesting one, and one I thought would be a fairly trivial one to solve. It appears, however, that what you end…

  • The 11th Doctor is….

    The Youngest Doctor Ever…. It’s a He. He’s 26 years old. He’s … Matt Smith ~Black Xanthus