I am a physical chemist working at the University of Oxford.
There’s a very clever syntax in bash (and several other unix shells) that allows the output / input for subcommands to be hooked together. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html… Read More »Process substitution in bash
Windows 7 is available for purchase at a discount from the Microsoft student and teacher “Ultimate Steal” website. This sounds great. Now to upgrade from… Read More »Windows 7 Activation
Some helpful instructions on Stuart Colville’s blog explain how to do this. To produce e.g. abc'def, you need to enter $echo 'abc'\''def' The '\'' first… Read More »Escape single quotes in bash
It is possible to gain root access on this router. You need to follow the telnetEnable procedure on the web, using the username/password Gearguy/Geardog as… Read More »Netgear WGT624 v4 router
Serves 2 Ingredients: 6 Sainsbury’s Taste-the-difference venison sausages 6oz plain flour 2 large eggs pinch of salt & pepper 6 fl oz milk 4 fl… Read More »Venison Toad-in-the-Hole
I scratched my flat screen (LCD or TFT) monitor some months ago. For a while, I’ve just lived with the damage. This evening, however, I… Read More »Fix flat screen monitor with pencil eraser
My bank provides OFX format files for download from their Internet banking website. This short perl script ofx2txt converts these into tab delimited text files… Read More »Convert OFX files to plain text
I used the excellent bib2endnote project recently as a starting point to convert a DocArc library of references into EndNote format. This method retains any attachments.… Read More »Convert data from DocArc to EndNote
We went for a lovely walk with my family yesterday in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. There are a few public rights of way through… Read More »Public right of way through the grounds of Blenheim Palace
At long last, after months of writing, I submitted my DPhil (i.e. PhD) thesis today. It feels great! I particularly like this photograph that my… Read More »DPhil thesis submitted