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!
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.