At least its not in hexidecimal

peterbayliss — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:01:52 +0000

Something has gone wrong with my endnote library, every time I try to format the bibliography for my thesis draft I get a “service error: generic”. Apparently, the generic error is just that, one it could be one of many things, but at least I know its generic (hence the blog title). I’ve tried some of the fixes suggested by the Endnote website, and came up with a couple myself, such as importing the library file into a new file, but nothing seems to work. I haven’t dared try the registry editing fix yet, I’m not too sure IT services would like that too much. From the sound of it I need to “check bracket use”, which I’ve done once, so I guess another bracket sweep will have to do.

I’ve been catching up with research this morning, particularly the pile of papers that deal with player experience in one way or another that I haven’t got around to entering into endnote yet. I’m about to start writing about phenomenology and player experience, so it seems like a good place in the thesis to incorporate a lit review of the topic. Well, I just wrote an introductory paragraph so I guess you could say the I’ve already started, if you really wanted to.

update Just found the endnote problem, a single extra space between the author’s name and the @ symbol in the temporary citation place holder thing. I hadn’t noticed it before because it ran from one line to the next. Maybe soon I’ll work out my other problem with Endnote, how to have a conference name term list so I don’t have to write it out for every entry from that conference.

The big question though, will I be able to wrest the TV from my house mate playing our borrowed PS3 for long enough to watch Newstopia tonight. I wouldn’t be surprised if he insists that I simply watch it on the internet =).

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At least its not in hexidecimal