Nelse
When I was growing up in a suburb just outside of London, my friend Pete and I would dismantle anything mechanical and attempt to build and use the rendered parts for any project that we worked on. Eventually he had a huge suitcase full of these parts of odds and ends, and it was referred to as Nelse.
Here is a gathering of computer related Nelse - research ideas, hacks and odd documents and notes that I have kept on my computer over the years.
Getting LyX, ADS, astro-ph, and BiBTeX to produce ADS clickable bibliographies in LaTeX files - It's fiddly enough for me to detail the whole mess here.
Sidereal Slide Rule - Apply directly to forehead.
Downloading from a GPS eTrex Garmin with gpsbabel - Using gpsbabel to get files into Google Earth.
Setting up a networked wireless print server - My local setup for home wireless printing.
From plots in PGPLOT to Animations - Making movies from a set of images from PGPLOT using ffmpeg.
Cargo Cult Science - By Richard Feynman.
Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense - From a Scientific American article a few years' ago.
GNU Make manual - In one big HTML page suitable for searching.
Useful Knots - Ten of the most useful knots.
Tomato Soup Recipe - Tomato soup recipe to kill for.
Setting up a Linux box for a Series 1 TiVo serial link - I have a tiny Linux box that sits next to my TiVo and provides an alternative to using a phone line for downloads.
Stereo image webcam movies - Two webcams make stereographic time-lapse movies of the Southwestern desert thunder storms.
USENET Signatures - Perl oneliners, and other geeked out hackery.
Academic Publications and Papers - An updated list of my academic publications.
User Manuals for Work and Home - Downloaded PDF files for my electronics
Chinese Whispers - A cautionary tale for those of you who are hurrying to finish their thesis...
Cricket to Baseball Translator - A page detailing the conversions between cricket and baseball, written in the good name of transatlantic diplomacy.
PDL Book - A local copy of the PDL Book from the CVS pages.
PDL for Beginners Book - Not as good as the above book, but more useful for module writing.
PGPLOT Manual - A local copy of the manual for Tim Pearson's excellent PGPLOT routines.
PDL Function List - All PDL functions from 2.4.3 in one HTML page.
Last updated: Monday June 02, 2008