真心的。又真係幾登對。:P Have been giggling, but it does appear quite a match. http://www.nicesoda.com/?p=2438

It always puzzles me how so many Americans manage to support two wars, death penalty and gun rights, but not abortion. http://j.mp/a1RD0S

丟哪媽！頂硬上！捍衛廣東話！ http://sinaurl.cn/7xny0

I really like Ralph Lauren’s fall collection showcased at NY Fashion Week, followed by Burberry, Alex Wang & Derek Lam.
http://j.mp/dlDGV3

‛ĕlôhı̂ym bĕshemkā hôwshı̂y‛ēnı̂y, shĕma‛ tĕphillahı̂y. A long road ahead with so little time.

It’s finally here.

More about the disc.

Even though I believe UC is currently under-charging for its education, I support the protesters on the ground that they are holding up a Berkeley tradition!

LaTeX has a very recognizable “default” look. If you routinely read working papers, you almost certainly have come across quite a few of them. You could very well be a seasoned LaTeX user youself.

Now, for one reason or another, sometimes you just need to use Word, and getting Word output to look like LaTeX is no easy task. Why might you want to make a Word document look like LaTeX? There are many motivations–perhaps you prefer the neat styling, or perhaps you do not want readers with big LaTeX-ego to discover that you used Word.

Here’s how I do it personally.

1. First you need the “LaTeX font”. Half of the LaTeX looks comes from the font. LaTeX uses Computer Modern by default. While there is a Word compatible port of the font, it lacks many characters that you would need in a word processor. What you need to use instead is Latin Modern, which is an expansion on the former. You can get OpenType Latin Modern fonts here. Usually it is sufficient to download only lmroman12-regular.otf, lmroman12-bold.otf and lmroman12-italic.otf. After downloading, go to [Control Panel] -> [Fonts]. You can simply drag the fonts into the window that shows up to install them.
2. Second you need to mimic LaTeX’s default styling. This gives the remaining half of the look, and much more complicated that the first half. It takes a bit of patience to make measurements of LaTeX spacing and translate them into Word. Here is a template. It looks kind of ugly in Word, but comes out great in pdf. The template takes reference to Laudo Ogura’s LaTeX sample. Definitely take a look at his site if you want to learn LaTeX.

A big plus of Word 2007 is the new build-in equation editor uses a TeX-like syntax, making the transition to and from LaTeX much easier than before. On the other hand, the equation editor is also the biggest problem–you cannot use another font, and the default does not look anywhere like LaTeX’s output.

“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants a meal,” but quoting Charles Dickins, “what greater gift than the love of a cat?”

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link to New York Times article.

A landmark study in 1990 by the scholar A. W. Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine, found that 20 percent of Catholic priests were involved in continuing sexual relationships with women, and an additional 8 percent to 10 percent had occasional heterosexual relationships.

“It’s not so much that people don’t know it happens, but they don’t know how much it happens,”…

The most damning aspect of the incident is not that Catholic priests violate their celibacy–priests are humans after all, and all humans sin–but that the Franciscans extracted a confidentiality agreement while keeping the priest in concern on active ministry, allowing the priest to essentially live a married life for years. This is a blunt disregard of the celibacy principle and utterly irresponsible.

“We quickly discovered that many of these priests were playboys. They weren’t looking for any discernment, they were simply staying and playing…”