So there has been a super lack of update to this site recently initially it was my interest in some cool stuff I had been working on which seemed to be working back in February. I then found a problem and have since then been trying to figure out what is going on. I have made some kind of computer monster which is confusing me. One day it will be nice but then as soon as I think I have tamed it BAM it bites me in the ass!! Anyway then my first year report writing got in the way and there has not really been anything exciting happen since then. Today however I found a very cool little thing built into Mac OS X. So windows user ignore and Linux users probably read on as its probably in Linux as well. Anyway if you are like me and write all your stuff in LaTeX then you probably if your silly like me copy and paste all your pdf into word/pages to count the number of words well no need anymore. In terminal just write:

ps2ascii report.pdf | wc -w

where report.pdf is the required pdf to word count and whoop it does it all for you! Pretty cool hey. Also for all you Mac Lovers, Snow Leopard for $29 (not sure if they have announced pounds yet) is amazing. I can’t wait to get my hands on it, look at Grand Central Dispatch which promises an easy way to multi-core program(http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/)