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Leonard Cohen came to me by way of Concrete Blonde and Jeff Buckley.

Everybody Knows via Concrete Blonde (live) on youtube (with a sweet Bob Ross at the end). Entered my life: c1994

Hallelujah via Jeff Buckley.  Definitely the most amazing version of this song I have ever heard.  I actually prefer Jeff’s live version which I got from napster back when that was legal.  OK, I quit being so lazy and searched youtube for Jeff Buckley hallelujah live; so there you have it the album cut and a live version. Entered my life: c1995 via my wonderful wife Lynn.

This is how my interest in Leonard Cohen first entered my life; last night I watched the movie I’m Your Man, I thought it was brilliantly done and renewed my interest in Leonard.  I encourage anyone interested in music, poetry or art to persue some Leonard Cohen; particullarly I like his honesty in regards to how much hard work it takes to produce something of value.

There is self doubt, passion, and real work that goes into his words and songs.  I value doing things and Cohen inspires me to carry on even in the face doubt.  ~SP

Installed LaTeX for WordPress and seems to work great:

a rational function to test LaTeX usage in wordpress.

… a little quadratic formula action anyone?

Happy makes me :)

Installed mimetex in order to have my server render the LaTeX locally.  Some more formulas just for fun:

Just read Gary Ackerman’s blog entry on OpenOffice in schools.  Well done Gary; I agree.

I would say that even in high school or anywhere you do not need to know how to use MS Word, you just need to know how to use software.  For common tasks there is little to no difference between OpenOffice and MS Word.

We are also using OpenOffice calc and the ideas of putting in formulas and making computations apply; the implementation details are slightly different, but the students understand how to get their work done.

Tools:  FreeBSD, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome, Lybniz, Manhattan Virtual Classroom among others; all open source.   ~SP

Been cranking away on Maths.  Updates include limits, derivatives, and some arithmetic.  Still cannot figure out matrices in my mediawiki install.  I will keep working.  ~SP

Save money and be more productive?

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7232/1.html this article states that the Obama administration is taking a look at the opportunity to save money and time by going Open Source where it makes sense.  ~SP

2n + 1 and quantumn mechanics can cooperate we can too.

love is for everyone quantumn, odd duck, and 2n’s too.  ~SP

Journey:

One of my proudest moments as a young math student was successfully proving the quadratic formula.  It took me four days and there were many mistakes, but the satisfaction I felt and still remember; I cannot properly explain.

This picture is an attempt at the expression of how beautiful the journey was and is.  It is about the journey and the experience more than any singular event.

~SP

The Fictionary surpasses 18.7 furds; with as many as four contributors. I think this is the next big thing, but thinking is dangerous. ~SP

Two new professional development courses for educators introduced:

1. How to Right Click!

2. Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts; Web 2.0 in the Classroom.

and as always my passion and vision math text online:  Maths

Much love and have fun;

~SP

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