Archive for May, 2009

Trailing-Edge Geekdom

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

As snolan pointed out in a recent comment, I’m a geek. Specifically, I’m a technology geek. but I don’t insist that only the latest and greatest tech is always the best (or most interesting). I love bicycles, photography, and even horology. In fact I have a decent retro-bent going these days. I ride an old, [...]

TeX and Me

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I just wanted to document how I installed TeX on my MacBook Air. I grabbed and installed BasicTeX-2008 from the MacTeX folks. TeX binaries were installed in: /usr/local/texlive/2008basic/bin/universal-darwin. So I added that directory to my path. Next I updated the installed packages: tlmgr update bin-texlive texlive.infra tlmgr update –all Since the ACM style file seems [...]