Offtopia

I am having the pleasure of preparing a poster for IJCAI 2011, for the first time in my life. Both the IJCAI and a poster. Fiddling with PowerPoint or Illustrator is painful. Beautiful slides can be prepared with S5 using HTML and CSS; a poster in HTML and CSS is also worth a try.

Here is my HTML and CSS conference poster. Topics zoom in and out when you click on them. A PDF version for printing is also two clicks away in a decent web browser (that is, Mozilla Firefox).

I am less fearful of preparing conference posters now.

Modern scientific digital typography got stuck in a local maximum. L^AT_EX — an archaic idiosyncratical tool — does everything wrong, even hyphenation and paragraph formatting. But this wrongdoing is so polished that cannot be improved. There will be no better L^AT_EX until the ugly fashion for frozen fossils of scientific mind will pass away, and there will be no L^AT_EX at all.

Hopefully soon.

C++ is a zero-paradigm (be as tasteless as you like) specification-oriented (perfect for implementing faulty designs) programming language. Corporations love to hire C++ programmers, those guys do everything for money. I want mutuality from my languages, I write programs only with tools I love.

And get paid well.