I have a day off today – Time Off In Lieu, TOIL (I love ironic acronyms).
I haven’t got anything planned but so far I have been:
- Playing with Ubuntu. Found out yesterday that a number of the doctoral students I support use open source tools like LaTex and Inkscape and KBibtext (they don’t use EndNote! ¡Ay, caramba!) I don’t have to learn how to use LaTex, for example, but I hate not knowing anything about it. And this gives me an impetus to play around with Linux a bit. Thanks for M for installing it on my PC (we’re using virtual machine software so I can keep running things like iTunes on Windows).
- Watching the birds outside my study window. I’ve been leaving seed out for them for a few weeks now. Initially they didn’t touch the food, but after almost a fortnight I guess they realised there was no longer a cat around to make things hazardous, and they’ve been enjoying it.
- Cleaning my fountain pens. I’m sure this isn’t particularly interesting, even to fountain pen users, so that’s all I’ll say about this 😉
Plus the usual reading, pondering and general pottering around the house. It’s so nice to have a day off!
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Sounds like fun. If you have any questions about Ubuntu that M. can’t answer feel free to send me an email and I’ll try to help. Ubuntu is what I run on my laptop 🙂
That you, SW? 😉
I use them all too, but on my iBook.
Since I stopped using Word on my Mac, Endnote lost relevance as far as keeping track of bibliographies goes.
This is why I like RefWorks, so people aren’t tied to a Word environment. Which is of course, many many IT and engineering students.
Yes it’s me 🙂 I probably should have said SW instead of just S.
I’d be interested in hearing about your thoughts on Ubuntu as well. I run it at home, and at work for various things.
It’s even running as a serve on a PC under my desk.
If I can help please let me know.
How are you finding RefWorks, Fi? Does Your Place Of Work provide it or is it your own personal sub?
Thanks for commenting SW 🙂 I’ll let you know if I have any questions!
Hi techxplorer, so far so good. I’m just realising I need to brush up on my Unix commands…
MPOW subscribes. I find it a little clunky, but it’s super for portability and as someone commented, students who are used to their data being online – mySpace, Gmail etc users.