Monthly Archive for June, 2003

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Family

The past couple days my Uncle and Cousin were in from California. We all went to a nice little family reunion in Cleveland and I had my memory refreshed on my dad’s family tree. I also found that they had seen my site when doing vanity searches. Eeak! How embarrassing.

But my relatives were heading down to Oxford (Miami U’s town) for an alumni meeting which he seems to attend every year today. I had wanted to go along but missed them this morning when they were leaving for the drive. Darn. Had a lot of fun talking to the cousin over the past days. I will get to see them again before they go back for a few hours Sunday afternoon. So that’s okay I guess. Gonna miss them though.

I would’ve ended up driving all the way down to Oxford (near Cincinatti) today and then to Republic, PA (great grandfather’s old house, near Pittsburg) back to Ashtabula, and on tuesday down to Oxford again for orientation. Possibly a bit much. I’ll miss them though!

FFEC & Draculae

Found an interesting potential Tablet PC application.

The Freehand Formula Entry System (FFES) is an interpretive interface for entering mathematical notation using a mouse or data tablet, implemented in C++ and Tcl/Tk (see screen shot, below). Available from this page is the second version (0.2) of FFES.

Looks like it converts right to LaTeX, Mathematica. Still working on getting it built though. Allegedly Linux and OS X only. Looks like after the grad who did the research graduated the blocking library (TXL) got released for Windows so that might be possible now. GNU’d
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