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  • To celebrate the release of LyX 1.6.6, I thought I’d upload an Oxford Thesis Template for mathematics/physics/engineering, based on K. Gillow’s excellent LaTeX class. While it’s tailored to Oxford, with a few modifications I’m sure it could be used for any thesis. To get it working, you’ll  have to copy...

    Oxford LyX Thesis Template

    Posted on May 31, 2010 | View Comments
    To celebrate the release of LyX 1.6.6, I thought I’d upload an Oxford Thesis Template for mathematics/physics/engineering, based on K. Gillow’s excellent LaTeX class. While it’s tailored to Oxford, with a few modifications I’m sure it could be used for any thesis. To get it working, you’ll  have to copy...

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  • To anyone doing an undergraduate degree in physics – download and learn to use these three programs: LyX: A frontend for LaTeX,  specially designed for people who don’t like LaTeX. You could consider it “training wheels for LaTeX”, but if you learn it well you’ll probably never need to learn...

    Physics report with LyX + JabRef + Inkscape

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | View Comments
    To anyone doing an undergraduate degree in physics – download and learn to use these three programs: LyX: A frontend for LaTeX,  specially designed for people who don’t like LaTeX. You could consider it “training wheels for LaTeX”, but if you learn it well you’ll probably never need to learn...

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  • In my honours at UWA (2008), I was the lone cowboy who decided to LyX instead of LaTeX. It saved me a shitload of time and LaTeX related anguish. As such, I thought I’d offer a UWA Thesis Template up to give a helping hand to anyone else who wants...

    UWA Physics LyX Thesis template

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | View Comments
    In my honours at UWA (2008), I was the lone cowboy who decided to LyX instead of LaTeX. It saved me a shitload of time and LaTeX related anguish. As such, I thought I’d offer a UWA Thesis Template up to give a helping hand to anyone else who wants...

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  • I spent a lot of time in the lab last month, taking measurements with an Anritsu 37xxxC series VNA. It would've taken me even longer if I hadn't made this little python script to control the VNA over GPIB.

    Anritsu VNA Python Script

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | View Comments
    I spent a lot of time in the lab last month, taking measurements with an Anritsu 37xxxC series VNA. It would've taken me even longer if I hadn't made this little python script to control the VNA over GPIB.

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  • The oldest human remains found in Australia are that of the Mungo Man, believed to have lived about 40,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch. So the Aborigines have been in Australia for at least 100 times longer than the Brits. As far as colonists go, China knew about Australia before the Dutch,...

    A super quick history of Australian settlement

    Posted on February 5, 2009 | View Comments
    The oldest human remains found in Australia are that of the Mungo Man, believed to have lived about 40,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch. So the Aborigines have been in Australia for at least 100 times longer than the Brits. As far as colonists go, China knew about Australia before the Dutch,...

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