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Writing is tiring

If anyone can suggest a way to make writing papers a less tiring task please let me know. Having spent all day trying to tidy up a review I knackered. This was not helped by having to rewrite most of an endnote* library as one of my coauthors had used the wrong format (if he happens to be reading, sorry mate, I know it wasn’t really your fault).

* For those that don’t know endnote is actually a really good bit of software if the library you are using is made correctly. Unfortunately, when you download citations from certain publishers they don’t format the author names correctly as such screw your bibliography. If you then edit the name of the first author (for example from “Bloggs.J” to “Bloggs, J” it messes with the code used by endnote. The result, you either need to remove your citations from your document and reinsert them, or unformat the citations and manually edit the codes to match the new ones. This is extremely annoying for a 100+ citation document.

PS. This is one of the least interesting things I’ve ever written, but it got it off my chest
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Just Like Jesse James

Probably in particualrly bad taste, but does anyone else think it ironic that the teenager killed in a recent gang-related shooting was called Jessie James? Alright the spelling is off but talk about living up to your name.

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Why are people?

Following conversation with a friend of mine after a few beers on Wednesday night, I’ve decided to start up this little blog thingy. I can’t guarantee I’ll remember to update it, you’ll just have to wait and see…

P.S. If either Richard Dawkins or anyone connected to him are reading remember  “plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery”

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