David Gleich's Notebook

I've been getting a few emails about folks interested in using my MatlabBGL software on 64-bit installations of Windows. 

Personally, I don't have a 64-bit installation of a Windows environment (XP, Server, or Vista) which always made testing a little difficult.  A while back, the ICME sysadmin (a really huge help!) setup a machine with a 64-bit copy of XP to test for one person.  I got the code compiled and everything tested.  (Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce the problem he identified.) 

In theory, I thought it would work quite simply.  I compile a 64-bit libmbgl, and they compile the .mexw64 files on their system.

Life is never that simple.

A while back, I wanted to write "Google" in a presentation.  (Given that I do some research on the PageRank system they proposed, I guess this isn't too surprising.)

I believe in making presentations fun and wanted to use the Google colored version of the term.  After some googling, I found the RGB colors and painstakingly converted them to floating point values to use with the latex xcolor package.  To make my life easier, I encoded everything into the following command.

\newcommand{\Google}{{
  \color[rgb]{    0.2000 ,   0.3922  ,  0.7647}G%
  \color[rgb]{    0.9529  ,  0.0980  ,  0.0118}o%
  \color[rgb]{   0.9686  ,  0.8431  , 0.1529}o%
  \color[rgb]{    0.2000 ,   0.3922  ,  0.7647}g%
  \color[rgb]{    0.2667 ,   0.7686  ,  0.0235}l%
  \color[rgb]{   0.9529 ,   0.0980 ,   0.0118}e%
 }
}

Later, I learned that I could have used the RGB values with the color package directly.  Oh well, it would have saved a little bit of time.