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Bitmapped math in XeLaTeX output.

XeTeX and your math is bitmapped?

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2015-03-02
Post category:Computers Everything Science
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I have now been using XeLaTex exclusively for quite a while for all my LaTeX work, which essentially means for everything: lecture notes, lecture slides, lab instructions, letters, reports,... For…

QuizClash

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-06-21
Post category:Computers Everything Media
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Swedish midsummer flora

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-06-21
Post category:Outdoors Photography Plants
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Today was the Swedish midsummer eve - and I used the free day for a bicycle ride. Hunting geo-caches also brought me in contact with nature. Paris quadrifolia is quite…

MS Outlook Web App - a survival mechanism for Outlook/Exchange refuseniks.

Brave New World

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-06-12
Post category:Computers Politics
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Today my employer, Uppsala University, will migrate our email system from an open-source and Unix based one to Exchange Server. At the same time we are all encouraged to migrate…

IKEA LEDARE lamp with 16.5 W and 1000 lm.

That’s bright!

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-06-11
Post category:Electronics LEDs
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Transatlantic recently asked about a new IKEA LED lamp, the LEDARE with 1000 lm. It comes as a quite big globe (diameter 95 mm) with an E27 socket, an electrical…

A letter to the head of the Engineering Sciences at Uppsala University

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-05-09
Post category:Politics Science
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Impressions from a trip to Germany

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-04-25
Post category:Politics
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Dear fellow resident German citizens!

Is it really and completely normal for you that

the stamp vending machines of the German Post still return the change in worthless stamps only?
a post counter hosted in a supermarket and tended by the personnel of the supermarket closes at 18:30, even though the supermarket itself is open until 20:00?
many shops don’t accept card payments even for larger purchases?
half of the shops which do accept cards only accept certain cards, but no VISA?
you are looked at stupidly when paying with counted cash down to the cent?

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Are you Schüßlering already?

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-03-17
Post category:Media Politics Science
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This article is about German tv advertisements for sugar pills according to the teachings of Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler. Since this is a German phenomenon and superstition I will not translate it to English. (more…)

LED lamps are (not) forever

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-02-26
Post category:Electronics Everything LEDs
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Two weeks ago I wrote about my experience with special price offers for LED bulbs at Bauhaus. What I didn't write was that I then just went to the other…

Which direction are the black and white balls moving?

Optical illusions

Post author:uwezi
Post published:2014-02-16
Post category:Media Science
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On National Geographic there is right now a science show called Brain Games. Even though a lot of the contents is not new, there was one optical illusion which really fascinated me:

Which direction are the black and white balls moving?

Look at the full image, look at the red circle, look at the yellow circle…

(image found at Mighty Optical Illusions)

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