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Some Wildcard Expressions for Reference Lists

For working with reference lists Find a line with no period at the end, insert period. ([!.])^13 \1.^p Reverse the two words of an author’s name if ending in a comma. Add period. ^13() (), ^p\2, \1. Search for a date (just the year) which does not have a full stop after it. ([0-9]{4}) Search [...]

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…And Getting Madder by the Second

‘The service we offer is 100% legal, very legitimate and won’t make you a cheater’, this site informs us. Another essay writing service; but whereas the ‘essay-scam’ was almost charming in its feckless hysteria, this one oozes competence, guilt and pathetic self-justification. ‘Why this is not cheating’, it explains: If you buy one of our [...]

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World Most Definitely Gone Mad

If to be honest, according to the price list of the company I though company does good job. Hence I didn’t have any doubt about quality of the service they offer because services were far more expensive than other companies. However, I after I placed order I realised how “serious” was this company. Thus writes [...]

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Robot Copyeditors

The sales text for a high-Google-ranked automatic editing tool gives us more information about the quality of the product than the writers presumably intended. It won’t be Utopian to say that every time whatever we write, whether a memo, report or a research material, is precise, accurate and effective in single go. It is possible [...]

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Interview with Bertrand Russell

This is a wonderful film of Bertrand Russell, interviewed aged around 87. Russell lived so passionately, and was active in so many areas of intellectual and political life, that it is difficult to achieve a true picture of all he was and did. One can study his mathematical logic at university (his History and the [...]

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