OooLaTeX

The one complain I have about OpenOffice is its math presentation. Compared to LaTeX or Mathtype, it does not look very nice. Here comes the rescue: http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/

Here is how they look:

Just Another Gibbs Sampler

This project (http://www-fis.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/jags/) looks very promising.

Screenshot

of a Freebasic debugging session on Linux.

Geany the tiny IDE

Geany is a tiny IDE for C/C++. It is convenient to use in cases when one needs to develop short single-file programs like the ones presented in the book "Simulating Ecological and Evolutionary Systems in C".

The address is here:

http://geany.uvena.de/

It also supports FreeBasic and FreePascal.

Zotero again

Cool. Zotero 1.0 is out. It fixes the problem with the ASA reference style. My next paper will be done in OpenOffice+Zotero!

Also a screenshot of OpenOffice and Zotero.

Chinese fonts

High quality Chinese fonts: http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi?%e9%a6%96%e9%a1%b5

Free and open source.

Linux & virus

Interesting post of virus on Linux: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus

Screenshot of my new desktop

Looks pretty cool.

Wow, it's finally here...

A reference manager integrated seamlessly with OpenOffice, on all platforms! Its name is Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/. There is no need to stay with MS-Office just for the convenience of Endnote, and there is no need to stay with Windows just for the combination of Office and Endnote.

It has some very nice features that neither Endnote nor NoteExpress has, such as grab more than one references from google scholars. I realize this is something serious ...