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Chronicles of the Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton
Venture SF 10 Nearly half way there… (there are 25 books in the series). This is quintessential early space opera from one of its founders. The book consists of 2 novels, The Star Kings and Return to the Stars. The latter appears to be a fixup (some of this material appeared in…
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Dr Trevor Hicks symposium, 2009
Back in 2009, I coordinated a symposium on neutron scattering and magnetism: on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Dr Trevor Hicks, my PhD supervisor. And now, only 17 years later, the conference handbook is available electronically! Wow! The whole thing was born in a…
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Word file in which I cannot insert nonbreaking spaces
I had a Word file, hosted on a SharePoint server, and when I went to edit it I simply could not insert nonbreaking spaces, no-width nonbreaks and other invisible characters. I tried shortcut keys, using the character map and character dialog vis the insert menu, and so on. So I…
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Olympia SG3 made in Mexico
This is a massive, heavy Olympia SG3. It is made in Mexico, and comes from some kind of office. It has a cutout in the platen, as if designed to take very thick card of very specific dimensions, and no lower case letters! On the other hand, it does have keys for Dollar, Pounds…
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TDE on Cygwin
Why compile the TDE editor on Cygwin when there is a native Windows version? Well, I guess for the POSIX style paths and so on it might work better? Actually, the Win version works fine. Even so, it can be done. I had a working gcc build environment, but also needed to install:…
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Cross the stars by David Drake
Here we are, Venture SF #9. A Hammer’s Slammers novel (see for example Venture SF #3). David Drake was to go on to become a very successful writer of adventure fiction, and this, an early novel, shows why, and also shows that he had a lot to learn at this time. The book is a ……
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Searching through lots of Word files at once
The task: I have the abbreviation and acronym list for a multifile project (30+ separate files). How do I tell if some of the terms are unused? I expect there are various tools out there to search many Word files all at once. You could google for them. Maybe I should have done…
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Joyce for beginners by Norris and Flint
A useful quick overview of Joyce’s major works and life. I think it is fair to say that its main mandate is to tackle the perception that Joyce is difficult to read. Now, I think it says Joyce is nothing to be afraid of but then a lot of the discussion does dig into all ……
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The paradox men by Charles L Harness
This edition is from the Crown series ‘Classics of modern science fiction’, published in the 1980s. From what I can see, it was really ‘the sf we could get the rights to’. This book may well be as much of a classic as any in the series. (In fact, my copy is from Greenhouse…
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No-Width Optional Break is not working; workaround
No-Width Optional Break is not working. Replace with zero width space (Unicode 200B). This webpage is really handy: https://invisible-characters.com/ Scrolling down, I can see this entry: U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE Now, in the Insert > Symbol > More Symbols dialog, under Special…