Shoe size is one of the most confusing things I have encountered in the US. I finally decided to do a bit research and come up with a conversion formula between US size and EU size.

For men’s shoes: EU = 1.27 * US + 30.94
For women’s shoes: EU = 1.27 * US + 29.035

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_size

I wanted to add a footnote to the chapter title in my thesis. You might think this would work:

\chapter{blah \footnote{this is a footnote.}}

But it actually does not. I figured this out:

\chapter{blahprotectfootnote{this is a footnote.}}

But this also puts the footnote in the TOC. If this is not what you want, you might do this:

\chapter[blah]{blahprotectfootnote{this is a footnote.}}

我的背景：PhD in CS，擅長開發，不擅長research，有一些paper，都不太強，也不算特別差。對research缺乏激情，所以選擇工業界。如果你的背景相差太遠，有些東西可能不適用，但是很多還是相通的。偶運氣還可以，第一個on site interview就給了offer，所以更多的是經驗，不太有教訓。題目就叫effective job hunting吧。側重interview。

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I have a bibliography entry which is very long since I included its web address. Bibtex inserted some strange “%” signs. The solution is to insert some white spaces in the URL. I use the macro \url from url package and it will ignore the spaces anyway.

My wife presented me several riddles yesterday and they look interesting. The answers are short phrases. They are just plain English so language is not the problem. Well, except the last one, if you don’t know the phrase, which I didn’t. Anyway, have fun. I will post the answers in the comment.

(1). wear   (2). stand   (3).     J
     ----        ------       you u me
     long          I              s
                                  t
 
(4).  0     (5). iii
   ------        ----
    M.D.         O O
    Ph.D.
    B.s.

I bumped into an article about typesetting. It talks a little about the history, which is kinda interesting.