Psychology
Video: Allan Pease: Communications differences between women and men
Is funny as well as instructional.
Intuitive Communication: Discover the difference between male and female brains with Allan Pease
Psychology
Video: Allan Pease: The art of giving a compliment and using it to appear taller, younger, slimmer
Compliments are used to open a person up. The structure of the compliment is: Person's Name + Compliment + why you like the attribute complimented + open ended question.
LaTex
WinEdit Latex Editor
A friend of mine mentioned they use WinEdit to originate LaTex math documents. I checked and it appears it does not give a WSIWYG preview or working environment. I will have to install to verify.
From Wikipedia
WinEdt is a shareware Unicode (UTF-8) editor and shell for Microsoft Windows. It is primarily used for the creation of TeX (or LaTeX) documents, but can also be used to edit HTML or any other type of text file. It can be configured to run as a front-end for a variety of TeX systems, including MiKTeX, fpTeX and TeX Live. WinEdt's highlighting schemes can be customized for different modes and its spell checking functionality supports multi-lingual setups, with dictionaries (word-lists) for many languages available for downloading from WinEdt's Community Site. It supports DVI and PDF workflow.
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Notes
Computing
Media Wiki Domain move with software and database update
Procedure
- create new subdirectory under blog to hold the mediawiki software
- upload mediawiki to #1
- run the mediawiki install by pointing a browser to #1
- during install point to the old database. The install will recognize the database needs updated. Let it do that.
- You will need to regenerate LocalSettings.php. After you download it upload it to #1
- Dial a browser up to #1. Your install should be working now. Remember: it is still using the old database though
- download Image folder from old mediawiki install and upload it to the new install – this is to transfer the photos from the old install
- New database: I want a unique database not mixed with others so on dreamhost I am forced to create a new subdomain.
- Using the new subdomain of #8 create a new database. On Dreamhost tends to look like: mysql.subdomain.yourdomain.com
- make a note of the user associated with new database!
- If you are going Dreamhost domain to dreamhost domain all you need to do is use the new database HostName. The DB username has access to whatever database it has been given regardless of what HostName is used.
- If you are changing to a different host continue as #11 does not apply.
- Ready for transfer of database. Using PhpMyAdmin export your database with no compression. The method of import will use BigDump script if your database is big. And too big is not very big with Dreamhost! If you are going to import using this do not use the Export > Data > Extended Inserts option when you export your existing database.
- Make a directory under your install folder called /dump
- Get BigDump.php here. upload BigDump.php to your /dump directory. The bigdump.php file has instruction on usage in the comments.
- upload your database file to /dump directory
- point a browser at the /dump directory and run bigdump.php.
- Use phpMyAdmin to verify tables were created and filled by bigdump.php.
- delete your old installation and database. Do any necessary cleanup now or you(I) am likely to forget!
Math
Math: Derivation of Matrix Determinant
Which you should recognize as Cramers rule lurking in the bushes.
Now let us take it a little further. Click into the links below to first see the derivation of the determinant of a 3×3 matrix. Then clink into the derivation of the determinant of a 4×4 matrix and higher with recursion.
Derivations
- Derivation of 3×3 determinant – This is used as a basis to develop notation that is useful in the final proof based on the 4×4 derivation
- Matrix-Determinant.lyx – original document
- Derivation of 4×4 determinant and deriving higher order determinants using recursion
- Matrix-Determinant-4×4-and-higher.lyx – original document
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Music
Music: Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London with Piano Tutorial
This one is more in my key.
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walkin' through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was lookin' for the place called Lee Ho Fooks
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
Ya hear him howlin' around your kitchen door
Ya better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
He's the hairy, hairy gent, who ran amok in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out Jim
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Aaahoo!
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walkin' with the queen
Doin' the werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walkin' with the queen
Doin' the werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was perfect
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
Draw blood
Aaahoo! Werewolves of London
The right hand on piano
Left Hand