Removing outlet safety covers

Slightly off-topic, and yet relevant to anyone facing the same dilemma: Now that I’ve baby-proofed all of my outlets… how do I plug something in?
If you have already separated a nail, or two, or generally jambed-up your fingers trying to remove one of these things, then you know what I mean. If not, then wait [...]

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MATLAB → C++ part II

I have had some success with converting my MATLAB code to C++. There are some caveats, from array indexing (minor), to missing functions (less trivial to fix). In case people are looking for solutions to these problems, I’ve posted some sample code.
To motivate the conversion a little bit more, my code spends 99% of its [...]

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BibDesk & Google Scholar

There is a lot to like about the BibDesk citation manager. First off, it works with BibTeX (in fact it’s file structure is BibTeX). There have been a lot of reviews, most of them positive of course… what’s not to like about open-source native cocoa applications that “do the right thing”? I wanted to post [...]

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Article Widget

It’s been around for a bit, but I figured I should post about a little side project I’ve been working on. As a physicist, I spend a lot of time tracking down citations; and typically they are in a handful of journals. Rather than bookmarking the journal homepage or search box, I realized that reverse-engineering [...]

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