I started to write up my first assignment as a word document using Neo Office.

I am still using subscripts but have started to use excel spreadsheets at a slightly higher level of formatting again all this in the free software Neo Office. I will try to do the proof for this assignment in latex and then copy and paste the pdf into the word document.

I just did some statistics homework.

I have an assignment due next Monday the 6th. I will try to get this done by Wednesday this week. I did one part tonight in pen and ink and need to write it up. This is the Kruskal-Wallis test. This uses Chi squared for its crtical statistic.

I gave away an internet book to my non-profit landlord's free lending library

I was submitting our lease for another year and realised I had taken a couple of books from the lending library and owed them a book. Since I had finished reading Alberts, David S. & Papp, Daniel S. Information Age Anthology Vol 1 : The Information and Communication Revolution (Washington, DC: The Centre for Advanced Concepts and Technologies, 1997) yesterday I left it at the lending library for someone else to read..

I am continuing to study the Internet.

I read another paper in Alberts, David S. & Papp, Daniel S. Information Age Anthology Vol 1 : The Information and Communication Revolution (Washington, DC: The Centre for Advanced Concepts and Technologies, 1997). This paper looked at the changes being brought about by the Internet. I think the idea that our routines and schedules are changing was the most important part of the paper I read. The world has become a 24-7-365 world. Always people working.

I completed reading Techno Feminism

I completed reading this book Wajcman, Judy. Techno Feminism (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2004). I read it mostly on buses as I traveled around town in the past month. It was an interesting critical study of other techno feminist scholars.

Continuing to read course textbook and finishing up Techno Feminism.

I continued to read my course textbook by Douglas C. Montgomery and am on section 2.3 now. Here is the bibliographic cite for this book. Montgomery, Douglas C. Design and Analysis of Experiments, 6e. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2005).

I also am almost finished reading Techno Feminism and am presently on the concluding chapter.

I got hired to be a teaching assistant for STAT3507 survey sampling.

I was one of the TAs for this course last winter and have been hired again to help teach this course this winter. I read the beginning definitions of things like sample, sample element, sample unit and sample frame in the courses textbook this morning. The first lab I have to give is next week. I will have labs to give every Tuesday and Thursday evenings this term.

The textbook for STAT4504 arrived this past Tuesday.

The textbook for my winter term course arrived this past Tuesday. I have read sections 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 so far. Also I have attended three classes now. So in class time has been 4.5 hours and home study or out of class study has been at most 1 hour now. Given that I need to study about 6 hours per class at home, making 18 hours at home study up to now, I am short 17 hours at present.

My statistics consulting contract is completed now.

I have completed the statistics consulting work I had gotten last Friday.

Internet studies on the back burner this past week.

I have stopped reading Alberts, David S. & Papp, Daniel S. Information Age Anthology Vol 1 : The Information and Communication Revolution (Washington, DC: The Centre for Advanced Concepts and Technologies, 1997).

Developmental victimology

I read a little bit about child and youth victims and donwloaded a journal article(pdf) in psychology about developmental victimology.

Back to reading as term is underway now

I got back to reading books this morning. I read about the formal rule of law model and will read more about this formalistic model of the rule of law. I am also starting to read a William Stallings book on cryptography.

Working as a statistical consultant this weekend.

I was referred some work from another TA who is active in our union. So this networking for work has done the job again. Proof that staying active as a volunteer can be productive and help one look after one's self interests.

The work involves justifing a sample size choice after the survey is completed. I did one section of a justification last night. I will need to do some more of this. I am using the researcher's reasons for why he chose his sample size n and writing these up as statistical reasoning. This relates to designing experiments and employing a statistician to help design the data gathering.

I have started my design of experiments course and have ordered the textbook from Amazon.co.uk. I will also order some suplementary books when I can afford them.

I did not study this morning but am happy to have graduated.

I did not study this morning but did read the newspaper which is a form of study. I also began to think about the best way to study experimental design which is my winter course. I asked my dad an experimental physicist to send me some of his techniques for experimental design. I will also be learning more about the design of business and marketing experiments, I am sure in this winter's course.

Internet studies continue tonight.

I am still reading Alberts, David S. & Papp, Daniel S. Information Age Anthology Vol 1 : The Information and Communication Revolution (Washington, DC: The Centre for Advanced Concepts and Technologies, 1997).

I read the last days' paper of our daily city newspapers for 2005.

I often read the Ottawa Citizen newspaper although most of the regular columnists I don't read. I am just completing reading Saturday's paper and there was no paper on Sunday.

Still reading about the intricacies of the rule of law in the middle 1900's in the USA.

I continue to catch up on reading. This book on the Rule of Law I am reading is really deepening my understanding of the basic legal concepts taught to me in LAWS2003 private law intro, LAWS2004 criminal law intro, and LAWS2005 public law intro. I also made a comment on an email list from the UK for radical statisticians concerning crime statistics. But I might have to wait for the world to return to work to get a reply. I also tried a more scan and lightly read approach to a math book on number theory. I also reviewed and scanned the introduction of a book on spatial econometrics. I also surfed Memorial universities' web site and checked out their graduate programs in statistics.

I had friends over for new year's eve. I have been up all night and will sleep in a few hours.