This looks pretty funky, this new cuil.com search engine.  I shall endeavour to use it, rather than Google for a while, to see what it’s like.  It’s easily addable to Firefox’s search engine box in the navigation toolbar.  Cuil is apparently pronounced like ‘cool’, in case you’re wondering.

For a proper review, see TechCrunch.

This is exactly what I wanted to find yesterday. Why didn’t Google find it for me then? I happened across it when looking at this post on side-by-side tables.

Instead of just using \begin{table}[ht] or some such to make the table (or figure) go here or at the top (I read yesterday that it’s a myth that there is any sort of order of preference in this declaration, but I don’t recall where and don’t know if it’s true), you put an exclamation mark in it, thus: \begin{table}[h!t], which apparently makes Latex try harder to put it where you want.

Internet Archive

My Colin told me about this website, which is great! I found my old websites, alluded to in the history of my website - they’re truly dreadful, I have to say, but not as bad as the infamous green of the website of the company I used to work at before it was taken over by the Americans.

The point of looking here was actually to find the FGP Wiki website that seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet just because I became interested in Flash game programming. My Colin also told me about FGPWiki, and I had a quick look during the week, thinking I’d look at it properly at the weekend. But come the weekend, and it’s gone! I get the old Server not found message every time I check. What’s happened? Is the world conspiring against me, just because I found something interesting and useful? I could have written the next big Flash game to help some other PhD student procrastinate as much as I do with Desktop Tower Defence!

So anyway, now that I’m able to follow the links on the FGP Wiki (the problem with Google cache is that I’d have to do a Google search for every page I wanted to look at) easily, there should be no stopping me. Except that it’s too late on a Sunday evening to start anything like that now. It’s going to have to wait until next weekend.

I just hope that someone archives the Internet Archive between now and then….

My shiny red laptop has Windows Vista on it, but recently, I’ve noticed that the screensaver refuses to display. Not a serious problem, especially not for an LCD, but it’s just annoying! So I asked Google about it, and Google said to read this article to find out why. This is an article by someone called Chris, who says that he had exactly the same problem, and he fixed it by unplugging his wireless Microsoft laser mouse, so I incredulously unplugged mine, which I have disliked since the day I got it. Lo and behold, one screensaver. Astonishing.

Update: the answer is to, with the receiver plugged in, download and install an optional update from Microsoft called Microsoft - Other Hardware - HID Non-User Input Data Filter. Then it’ll work fine. You can save your screen all you like.