Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 27th March 2008

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Category: Software, Technology

I’m giving up on DjVu. It used to be that the size advantages more than made up for all the other disadvantages but PDF has evolved and gotten better at compressing images (by using more advanced compression algorithms), disk space is not the issue it used to be years ago and PDF is just better supported.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 10th March 2008

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Category: Academia in General

In this post I react an article posted by Michael White revealing the mythical nature of the narrative of the underdog used by science journalists. I agree with him but also examining the mythical nature of the narrative has led me to believe that the peer review process must err on the side of accepting rather than rejecting.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 2nd March 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Software, Technology

Change Log

20080302:

Updated for OOHanzi 0.3: the only new functionality is the addition of an “About…” menu item.

200802??:

Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly installed.
Modified the way web browsers are launched.
Changed the nomenclature of menus and some functions.
General fixes to improve stability in Windows.

Status
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Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 2nd March 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Technology

Programing extensions for Open Office is painful.