Editing Scrivener ‘Sync’ files
Do you use Scrivener? If so, and you’d like to edit your Scrivener files on another platform such as your iPad, I may have something that will help. I’ve m...
The longevity of plain TeX
Microsoft Word was first released for MS DOS in October, 1983. Some five months earlier, Donald Knuth, a professor of computing at Stanford Universi...
The physical science of climate change
I’m late finding this Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) report. I include the summary of their findings on the physica...
If you need a word …
A combined Keyboard Maestro and OSX Automator action to access Princeton’s “WordNet” database. WordNet is a remarkable semantic network of words: not ...
The multilateral trade mess — 5 years later
In August 2008, shortly after the collapse of the WTO Doha Round’s agricultural negotiations in Geneva — which I recognized, then, as the ‘death-rat...
They never talk about trade
The trade and investment policies of the two main political parties in Australia have flip-flopped in chorus over the years so they hardly ever figure ...
Statistics for (non-mathematical) trade analysts
I teach a ‘summer intensive’ graduate course in Trade Research Methods at the University of Adelaide. In five days we cover everything from the role ...