Friday, September 30, 2011

Pithos -- Gnome Padora Client

One reason that I hadn't used Pandora in a while was that I most want to listen to music when working at the computer, however when I work at the computer I use the processor, hard! Unfortunately Pandora's webclient (flash based) sucks up processor power. Thankfully Kevin Mehall created a native Gnome client called Pithos! I'm just trying it right now but it seems to do the trick!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Joy of For-Loops in Making Figures

I love TikZ, the "vector" graphics package for LaTeX. One of the biggest reasons is that I can programmatically create the drawing. For example the nested foreach loops in this code saved me lots of work: