Monthly Archives: March 2007

A domain for the Omega Research Foundation

Popko, my dad, has founded the Omega Research Foundation in 1984 (when I was two years old). The Foundation was to serve as a a vehicle for his research into cyclical changes within ecological and social systems. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 22, 2007, at 21:03 | No comments

eps2eps to the rescue when epstopdf complains of no bounding box

PDFLaTeX doesn't like encapsulated postscript images. If you want to use .eps files with pdflatex, you can convert these files to PDF using Sebastian Rahtz' epstopdf, and then remove all .eps file extensions from the image locations in your .tex source files. Then, the latex command will look for .eps file and the pdflatex command will look for .pdf, .jpg and .png files. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 02, 2007, at 23:03 | No comments

Making flash cards on-line

I'm learning Spanish from a Dutch method called Eso sí. Approaching chapter 10, I noticed that I would benefit from first learning the words introduced in each chapter before starting on the chapter's text and exercises. From doing some exercises on Spanish learning websites (especially www.studyspanish.com), I noticed that flash cards can be a great help. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 02, 2007, at 00:03 | 2 comments