Finally I finished copy/past of my previous posts. Actually tonight I realized that I have a big security hole which may cause serious problems in the future. So I decided to move out from blogger and come to here. All of previous posts have a date in the parenthesis which are their real date.
Because this post is technically my first post on wordpress so nice to meet you buddy
When I am working with LaTeX I feel confidence in what I am doing. That’s because every thing is under my control, unlike the MSWord which every thing is under his control! I should say I am not one of those “Apple crazy” people who like to insult Microsoft. Even among my university friends I am considered as a Microsoft fans (I am sure there will be a huge number of negative responses by those Apple guys 
Back to the subject, I really enjoy working with LaTeX. It is like writing a program which its result is shown as a tidy pdf file. Every things make perfect sense. For example when you want a capital alpha you should use \Alpha, otherwise \alpha. Isn’t it amazing? Almost all of this artistic work’s credit should go to great D. E. Knuth [wiki] who made the basis of this type setting system. (Special thanks to great Arm who told me about Knuth)
In the following lines I am going to share with you the softwares and books which I use to work with LaTeX. I hope using these stuff make LaTeX as funny as for you which is for me.
Because right now I am using a Mac laptop (yes! it is right) so here are list of softwares which I use for LaTeX.
I hope using these resources you also enjoy working with LaTeX. If you know any other useful resources please let me and other readers know about them.
(4/9/08)
I have a roommate who is from Columbia, his name is Augusto. He had told me sometimes ago that his mom is sick. I feel shy to ask exactly what is her disease but I think she has some kind of cancer. I really feel sad for him, I think that is because his situation makes perfect sense for me. I clearly remember my feeling 3 and half years ago. At that time my mom was also sick, very sick.
I was in my first year of Masters degree, sometimes in the autumn my sister called me and said that mom is sick. She told me she is going to have a serious surgery in the following days. They didn’t tell me exactly what is the problem. Besides that, I had a feeling that I should be more strong than my sister and younger brother. That feeling kept me strong and avoided me to cry through the next days I was involved in that unfortunate mis happening. My mom and dad came to that city which I was living in the next day.
At that day I went to the terminal where they to pick them up. When I saw my mom I was shocked, she was clearly yellowish and week. At that time the special feeling prevent me from crying and I acted like a man! After that we went to a private hospital to look for a doctor who was famous for doing that kind of operation. It was early in the morning so we waited for about 3-4 hours until he showed up. During that time we were amused by watching different people who came there. I love my moms sense of humor which works even in that time. Anyway, when he came my mom talk with him and ask him to do her operation as soon as possible. I think that scene which my mom begged him to do the operation, is one of the worst pictures in my mind. I can never forget that.
He told us he should leave in the following days so he can’t do that, but he asked one of his friends to do the operation. Fortunately the new doctor turned out to be a good doctor as well. He told us we should bring her to the Milad hospital and he would do the operation tomorrow. We felt a little confident at that moment. That time was around noon so we went to a fast food located in the cross of street to have lunch there. Again my mom use her sense of humor to made us happy at that bad situation. Even now we make fun at that store for their awful food!
I will continue this story in the next posts.
At the end I ask God to help Augusto’s mother to become fine and make him happy again. Also I pray God to watch my mom and dad and keep them happy and healthy.
God bless all moms
(4/8/08)
I have a brother named Sir, he is 4 years younger than me. We were really good friends before I left house and went to the university. At that time we had similar feelings, thoughts, and actions. We were like twines in every things except in age. I can’t forget those days which we held each other hand and went to bazaar to watch different stuff and make fun of every body. We didn’t talk with each other to talk about things around us. We communicate through our hands! Also I clearly remember the beginning days of summer when we went to out uncle barber shop to shave our heads. Then we bought “special shaving candy” and ate it on the way back to home. Those moments are my one of the best moments in my whole life.
We were like that until we start to distance from each other. I can’t remember exactly when and how it was started (like other beginnings in my life which I can’t remember them). I think it was during his first years in university, when he started his independent life. We try to keep a polite and friendly relation with each other but it wasn’t like our previous friendship. That time coincided with the time which I start to distance from my family member. At that time I was not there to continue my friendship with him, I think he really needed me at time. So I think it was our fault, both of us. But mine was bigger, because I was older than him and I should prevent that situation.
Anyway it is a long time we tread each other as a stranger, several times I tried to become more friend with him, but it is impossible. We can never be like the old times; the old sunny, warm, colorful days …
(4/6/08)
Just before start complaining let me tell you what did I do today (Saturday): Today I got up at 12 and then start cooking until 3:30. Then I went to university and I was there until 10:45 Finally I joined ARS, FRB, and AMR in a coffee shop to drink something and chat. So you can imagine how much busy I am in these days. That’s the reason I didn’t post anything lately.
Ok, let me start the main subject which I am going to talk about tonight. I can’t exactly remember why did we talk about “satisfaction level of life” tonight, however it keeps me thinking even after I came back home. I thought why do I feel I was happier last year before I come here? Is it a real thing or it is just based on some pessimistic perspective? In order to find the answer I start to find the reasons of unsatisfactory feeling about life. Here are the most important ones I found:
Considering all of that facts I am still pretty satisfied my life because I know “the grass is always greener on the other side “. Any other life style which now I wish it has more troubles than this one but it is not clear from distance. I really appreciate this oppertunety that God gives me and I do my best to use it as well as I can ….
(4/5/08)
Writing in a Blog is pretty similar to being student. You may be a good student and do all of your tasks on time. On the other hand you may be a bad student who always is behind his/her schedule. I the former case you will have a progressive movement and you perform better and better. But in the latter case you will go into the trouble more and more and finally you will find yourself in a point that nothing can survive you. So you will give up and drop your semester. At that time that kind of students will say “In the next semester I will do every thing on time and I never let the things to go on like this”. Let me tell you a secret, that kind of students will never can change their attitude.
Considering this long introduction, I absolutely belong to the second group both in writing Blog and being student. I had lots of topics to write about in these days but I don’t write any thing. Honestly I was (am) busy in these days, but even when I have a spot in my schedule I try to have a little fun (you know what is my entertainments, watching movies) instead of “writing a post”. In this post I will write about the news and in the next one I will talk about the movies.
As I said, I talked with Russ to become my supervisor. The main news in the previous week was that he accepted it. In the Tuesday lecture, at the beginning of class, when I hand in my second assignments he told me “I will … be your supervi…”. I didn’t understand exactly whether he said I will be or I will not be. During the class I was just thinking which one he said, it was the longest class I have ever attended. Finally after the class I went to the front desk and asked him “You will be my supervisor? YES?” And he said “Yes!” Here is an evident that right now Russ is my supervisor:
(3/11/08)
Today at 11 I had a meeting with Russ, I finaly ask him if it is possible to have him as my supervisor or not. In the response he said that “yes, I do need more students” and he talked a little about his current reseach areas which needs students to work on it. At the first he spoke very hopefuly, but after a while he start talking about neccessary backgrounds. Then he ask me smartly which course do I take (this and previous semester) and ask about my grades (… Martin). Also he asked my about my grade in assignment 1 of ML course (thanks god, i got 90 out of 90).
Finally he said if he become my supervisor at the begining of summer I should investigate different possible tpoics and choose one to work on. He said he should talk with nilanjan to make sure that he is not stealing a student from him! At the last he askefd about money and I tell him, nothing!!!!
(2/28/08)
Yesterday 80th Academy award ceremony was held. Among the candidate movies in different areas I had watched this ones:
I think the final results were fair. Nocountry for old men is an intersting movie which is better than There will be blood in my opinion. When I was watching the latter one, I was expecting something happens.
(2/25/08)
I hate Matlab! When I am writing code with it I have a good feeling because it has lots of cool command and tools which make it very easy to manipulate matrices. Every thing is cool until you start to run and debug your program, the disaster stage. I believe if there is a bug in a Matlab code, then nobody can find it. In this case the best way is to write it from scratch! Don’t you believe me, you will see 
Right now I am trying to run a program 10 times on a computing machine of our department, calling bonanza, and the calculate the average result over these iterations. The problem is it stops after 1 iteration, without any error or warning message! I am checking the process table of the machine and surprisingly the process is terminated before the first iteration finishes.
I am sure I should write it again 
(2/13/08)
