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Can’t send a ° Degree Symbol by SMS

A completely useless factoid I just discovered. I used the Windows character map to copy and paste a degree symbol (°) into my PC SMS application and sent it to my mobile phone. What arrived at my phone was the letters "Ao". So for those of you wondering, you...

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Telstra T106

Just purchased a cheap-as-chips ($89AUD) Telstra T106 pre-paid phone made by http://www.zte.com.au. On the pro side: I find it a little more ergonomic but less refined mechanically than the Nokia 6120C It has a built in stop-watch a feature missing from my previous...

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LaTeX Coolness

Sorry if this is nerdy but, I love LaTeX... Professional quality beautiful typesetting. You can create attractive documents with just an installation of tex-live and a text editor. You also need to install the tex-live extra's sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra...

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