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It takes maybe fifteen minutes to set up a stylesheet, and then you are set for, well, the rest of your university career if, like me, you are in a discipline where things don't change much. They've also added Alt + Cmd + V to the latest LyX, which makes things a lot easier. What's left? To take Bibdesk and merge it in to LyX. And then a way of editing LaTeX in an outliner. We need a LyX/OPML Editor mashup. That would knock the socks off any GOffice, Writely, Office Live crap. But nobody is going to do it, because it's not AJAX and it's not sexy and not a rinky-dinky toy." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:18:57 GMT"/>		<outline text="Dude, you need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielcurran.com/2006/04/ipod-isolation-and-single-guy.php&quot;&gt;virtualise&lt;/a&gt;. That means online dating, meetups and so on. You lose serendipity, but it also means you don't have to hang out at parties filled with boring poeple." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:02:56 GMT"/>		<outline text="I tried Boot Camp the other day. It lasted about half an hour before I removed the partition. Now I'm going a step better with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parallels.com&quot;&gt;Parallels&lt;/a&gt; Workstation for OS X. It's Public Beta, and is gong to be about £23 when released. It's like Virtual PC, but actually maintained. I wonder how well it'll run FF11. As someone said, it would be really cool if you could run Boot Camp partitions in Parallels." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:39:55 GMT"/>		<outline text="I've just been approved for a credit card. This means that I'll actually be able to pay for things while abroad. Not many Americans take Switch or Maestro or whatever it's now called." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:22:09 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lofitribe.com/2006/04/17/theological-terms-dump-04172006/&quot;&gt;Theological Terms Dump&lt;/a&gt;. Madness." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:54:03 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://netweb.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/cory-doctorow-at-acmi/&quot;&gt;Stephen at Netweb&lt;/a&gt; has a post about Cory in Melbourne." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:52:32 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/18/train-based-blogging/&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; is blogging on the train. Welcome to the club!" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:44:18 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://photomatt.net/2006/04/15/feed-validator/&quot;&gt;Matt Mullenweg&lt;/a&gt; is annoyed by the feed validator. My RSS validates, but I'm not particularly bothered. If someone has a problem with my RSS, they simply have to email me." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:42:42 GMT"/>		<outline text="My GPRS has been acting strange over the last few hours. I'm back home now, but I wasn't able to get a connection on my train ride home." created="Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:04:47 GMT"/>		<outline text="Our Long Nights Together Are So Sexy" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:39:08 GMT">			<outline text="Or not. Because the subject is telemarketers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animud.com/blog/&quot;&gt;Life of a telemarketer&lt;/a&gt; is a new blog by a Canadian telemarketing employee going by the pseudonym &quot;Clark Kent&quot;." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:39:28 GMT"/>			<outline text="Today he points to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animud.com/blog/indian-telemarketers-having-nervous-breakdowns-due-to-verbal-abuse/&quot;&gt;this article about Indian telemarketers&lt;/a&gt; and call-centre workers. From the article:" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:41:43 GMT">				<outline text="&quot;Australian accents ­ especially in working-class areas ­ are very difficult to understand.&quot;" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:42:00 GMT"/>				</outline>			<outline text="Do they get it now? Racism is something I cannot condone. Legibility and comprehensibility are things that should be valued. If Indian call centre employees are complaining that they can't understand Ozzie accents, might they not understand some of the horror we feel when put through to them." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:42:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's not race, it's not accent. I interact with many Indians here in Britain, everywhere from fast-food joints and curry houses through to tech meetups and academic discussions." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:44:02 GMT"/>			<outline text="The problem with the call centre employees is that they aren't very knowledgable, are inflexible and their employers are often dishonest about it all." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:45:02 GMT"/>			<outline text="For instance, I had to replace my laptop battery recently. I phoned the newly outsourced Apple phone care, and got put through to &quot;John&quot; or &quot;Michael&quot; or whoever in Mumbai. I had 'prepared' my case. I explained the behaviour, how to replicate the behaviour, and pointed out that numerous people online had the same issue and AppleCare US had simply done a replacement." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:45:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="What I found out during this conversation is that the guys in India actually have something like an IRC channel running with Western techs on them. If you call them up and ask a simple question - &quot;How do I open iTunes?&quot; - they'll tell you. If you call them up and ask them a difficult question - &quot;Why are your batteries a pile of shite? - they'll log on, grab an American or European techie and get them to answer it in real time." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:46:59 GMT"/>			<outline text="The problem was resolved, after a few hours of farting about. The guy was perfectly pleasant, even though his accent was slightly difficult to hear over the tinny phone connection. But he didn't know what he was talking about beyond the simplest of points." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:48:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="He also got it wrong on the returns front. He took a credit card number, and told me to return the battery. The email I got the next day told me not to. As did the returns website. And when I got the part, it didn't have the usual instructions to return. (Which is fine - I've now got a MacBook with two batteries, albeit one stops turns your machine off when you get to 40%)." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:52:34 GMT"/>			<outline text="They don't understand Ozzie accents? Good, we don't understand theirs too well..." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:16:30 GMT">				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:HaloScan('telemarketers59693');&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('telemarketers59693');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:HaloScanTB('telemarketers59693');&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('telemarketers59693'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="Evil In Uniform Is Not Evil After All" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:03:14 GMT">			<outline text="Ever since Jean Charles de Menezes was murdered last year, I've been saying &quot;nothing is going to come of this&quot;." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:03:31 GMT"/>			<outline text="And I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006170667,00.html&quot;&gt;right&lt;/a&gt;. No charges are going to be brought for the murderer of Mr de Menezes." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:04:47 GMT"/>			<outline text="Why? Because, in the eyes of the Crown Prosecution Service, if you are wearing a uniform you are exempt from the homicide laws." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:05:05 GMT"/>			<outline text="So sayeth the Police Federation: &quot;The officers will be greatly relieved.&quot;" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:06:18 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'm sure they will. They've just got away with &lt;i&gt;murder&lt;/i&gt;. That's not something you can do normally, only if you are an &quot;officer&quot;." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:06:25 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's not the intellectuals bringing about moral relativism and situation ethics: it's those mofos in the CPS." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:06:52 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's common wisdom that if you shoot a cop, you are more guilty than if you shoot a normal person. But if a cop shoots you, they're totally innocent." created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:08:34 GMT"/>			<outline text="Now I won't be able to travel the Tube safely. If any of the guys who died on July the 7th had survived, you can bet your buttcheeks that they wouldn't have been pardoned, they would have been in prison. Why don't the terrorists in uniform get the same treatment?" created="Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:09:23 GMT">				<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:HaloScan('evilinuniform65528');&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('evilinuniform65528');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:HaloScanTB('evilinuniform65528');&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('evilinuniform65528'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>				</outline>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>