October 7, 2005

Dennis Silverman’s Tips for Using Equation Editor

Equation Editor Tips & Tricks at MathType site

Tutorials at MathType site.

Equation Editor is a “lite version” of MathType, the full-featured math editor that Microsoft recommends.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Tech Fun at 10/07/2005 12:01:00 PM

Is ‘Lost’ a literal enigma? - Yahoo! News: “Literary references have been sprinkled throughout the mysteries of Lost: In an episode last season, the character Sawyer was reading Watership Down by Richard Adams, the story of rabbits searching for a safe place in a threatening world. At another point, he read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, about time travel.
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Look for another literary reference - and possibly another clue to the island’s secret - on tonight’s Lost (ABC, 9 ET/PT).

At one point, someone will pick up a copy of the novel The Third Policeman by the late Irish writer Flann O’Brien. The cover will be seen for about a second, ABC confirms”

Somehow, I don’t think books are going to wind up being that important to the show …

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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/07/2005 11:07:38 AM

King’s ‘Colorado Kid’: You decide - Yahoo! News: “Stephen King is so hot that an advance copy of his latest novel, The Colorado Kid, was stolen and sold for $1,623 on eBay.
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Aw, c’mon, it’s good, but not that good.

King wrote The Colorado Kid for Hard Case Crime, which publishes old and new hard-boiled crime fiction in paperback at a far more affordable price: in this case, $5.99.”

Hard Case is a great imprint. Maybe now they can afford to finally publish that last Donald Hamilton novel!

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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/07/2005 10:47:00 AM

September 2005 was a down month because of a (long-expected) upsurge in returns driven by the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. On the other hand, there were some positive trends, especially diversification: the Dan Brown book pulled its weight, helped by a #1 search spot on Google for “Dan Brown Solomon Key.”


A breakdown of revenue by channel shows that most of the ancillary revenue channels such as Amazon.com Associates and Google Print made slim contributions this month.

The ancillary channel that’s easiest for me to tweak is Google Adsense. Other publishers report that they have been able to gradually improve Adsense to the point where it represents 20 to 40% of their revenue per subject.

Plans for October:

• release PDF update of UNAUTHORIZED HARRY POTTER BOOK SEVEN NEWS
• website tweaks
• mystery “nimble” project

CNN.com - IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize - Oct 7, 2005: “The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.”

Good pick! I wish I felt a little more sanguine that the job is done. Rather, it’s just beginning.

CNN.com - IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize - Oct 7, 2005: “The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.”

Good pick! I wish I felt a little more sanguine that the job is done. Rather, it’s just beginning.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Proliferated at 10/07/2005 06:30:26 AM