The note on HOW TO READ A BOOK:1 Reading The book is for someone who wants to become a reader of books. Especially for the readers whose mean purpose in reading is to gain and improve the understanding but not to get information. What does "readers" mean? By "readers", the authors mean that people who are still accustomed to gain a large share of information about and understanding of the word from reading. Admittedly, the information about and understanding of the word can be gotten not only from reading, but also from speaking and observation. But for intelligent and curious people, that is never enough. They think that they have to read much. But nowadays, the technology is very advance, and we can get much information about the word from the television,radio,moves and magazines. The radio and television have taken over many functions of the functions served by print,just as photography has taken over functions of painting and other graphic arts.So, is reading necessary? The answer is "yes", reading still plays an important role for the one who wants to improve his understanding. The advanced technology can help us get more knowledge about the word, but sometimes, to much knowledge may be to the detriment of understanding. In the modern time, the information and opinion we get from the media are packaged by some of the best minds in our day.The viewer of television, the listener to the radio and the reader to the magazines can get the information and opinion without difficulty and effort. But the viewers, listeners and readers can not make up their own mind at all. What they do is just inserting the packaging into their minds,just like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. They play back the cassette player when they need some opinion. Reading some good and classical books well can help us to make up our own minds.

I don't want to work today I don't want to work today! I was in the office since 14 o'clock this afternoon, and it's 21:24 now. During the 7 hours, I almost did nothing but just scanned some website. What happened to me? It's the first day for me to go to the office after the Spring vocation. Maybe I need one or two days to transit. But I hope the transiting is not too long, because I have to work hard, I have much work to do! I will try to running tonight, because I always think that running can make me stronger and full of energy.

Listen to music when you are working Listen to music, especially that without lyrics, sometime may be helpful for working. Music can help you relax and make you calm, that's important for concentrating. For some ordinary work, says, some work that do not need to much deep thinking or analysis, music can make you more efficiently. But it doesn't work for all the kind of work. If your work needs a deep thinking. for example, when you are solving some math or physics problem, you'd better shut down the headphone. Because the these kind of work needs a quiet environment.

Change my general life style on working and rest I always slept too late in the night, almost 1 o'clock when I went to bed! It's very terrible, and also harmful to my health. I am suffering from the bad results of sleeping too late now! I feel a little weak, and very teared. My face looks a little white and eyes red, which makes me ugly. People who saw me may thought that I was a patient, this is too embarrassed. Staying up late also makes me a bad brain! It's not easy for me to focus on my work, and my mind always fly away when I begin to work. Concentrating becomes more difficult. The most terrible thing is that it seems that I am suffering from the alopecia now! Every day I can find much hair on my bed, and my head looks more hairless than before. I feel I am dropping into the hell! I have to change my life style! So, I decide that I won't stay up late any more in order to make myself more healthy, active and smart! I will go to sleep before 10 o'clock today and get up 5 o'clock tomorrow morning!

Tips for asking a hlep online I met some problems with my computer, and tried to ask help on line in a forum in English. But, I didn't express the problems as clearly as others can understand and help me. There is a kind guy who answered me, but it didn't work since my trouble is not very clearly narrated. So, I begin to wonder what should I do when I want to ask a help effectively online, especially in English. Then I move up several tips for me: 1 before asking, try to research onlne, just check is there anyone who has met the problem and published the answers. 2 if the answers are not helpful to you, then write your puzzle on the appropriate forum. 3 try your best to make sure your grammar is no problem, and can make others easy to understand. 4 the most important thing is that tell the details about your issues, and the background of your query, which can keep others knowing how to help you. That's what I have learned from my failed asking help online. I think I can avoid the bad ask if I can do as what I listed.

I almost couldn't enter the graphic interface of my linux os I tried to setup a Windows operating system parallel my Linux OS, but without carefulness, I made a mistake which stopped me entering the graphic interface of my Linux OS. I didn't know what happed, and did everything I can do to restart the graphic interface, but it still didn't work. I searched on line, and found there are may answers about how to restart the graphic interface, but most of them couldn't help me. And also, the answers are very different. I begun to think why there are many answers for how to restart the graphic interface. I recognized that, there maybe many different reasons that cause the desktop mode dose not work. So what should I do is that finding out what's the reason to lead the problem. This was not difficult， because I know what I have done for my computer. With the help of the Internet, I found what was the mater. Because I just installed the Windows OS on the sda6 not successful, but the information about the Windows has been recorded in the 'fstab' file which lays in /etc/ directory. So, what all I needed to do is just delete the sentence about the sd6, which states that "UUID=1A7E-98BA /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1" . And I did it, then the problem have been solved. That's why I can sit here and write the notebook.

Matlab Learning note Matlab Learning note In this chapter, I just try to write what I have learned when I tried to use MATLAB to solve some problems. My English is not very well, so there may be many syntax error in my note. But, I have to try to use English since I don't have much chance to speak and write, I have to use it in my ordinary life. Only in this way, I can improve the language skills. MATLAB is an useful and remarkable science calculating software. It can help me overcome most of problems I meat in my work, so I hope I can master it well. \section{Opening and loading files} \paragraph{fopen} FID=fopen(Filename) opens the file Filename for read access. The Filename is a string containing the name of the file to be opened. Filename can be a MATLABPATH relative partial pathname. If the file is not found in the current working directory,' fopen' will search for it on the MATLAB search path. FID is a MATLAB scalar integer valued double, called a file identifier. You use FID as the first argument to other file input/output routiness, such as FREAD and FCLOSE. If it can not open the file, it will return a '-1'. fopen(Filename,PERMISSION) opens files in the mode specified by PERMISSION: 'r' open for reading, 'w' open for writing, 'a' open or creating file for writing, append the date to the end of the file, 'r+' open (do not create ) file for reading and writing, 'w+' open or create file for reading and writing, discard the existing contents, 'a+' open or ceate file for reading and writing, append the data to the end of file, 'W' open file for writing without automatic flushing, 'A' open file for appending without automatic flushing \paragraph{fgetl}: fgetl read line from file with the line terminator, discard newline characters. Tline=fgetl(FID) returns the next line of a file associated with the file identifier FID as a MATLAB string. The line terminator is not included. \paragraph{fseek} : 'fseek' sets file position indicator. STATUS = fseek(FID,OFFSET,ORIGIN) repositions the file position indicators in the file associated with the FID. It sets the position indicators the byte specified OFFSET relative to the ORIGIN. OFFSET values:">=0" OFFSET bytes after ORIGIN,"<0" OFFSET bytes before ORIGIN ORIGIN values: '-1' beginning of file, 0 current position in file, 1 end of file For example: fseek(fid,0,-1) just rewinds the origin file.

Some new words I learned today I read a essay named "Catching wild elephants in Celylon"today, and I met some words I couldn't understand very well. I think I may have learned one part of them but just forgot them until today, and firstly meat the other part of them. No mater what kind of they are, I just chose to learn the both. And the new words are listed as follows: 1 Celyon: Celyon was an famous Buddhism country which are known as Srilanka nowadays. 2 fence: fence is a barrier between two areas of land 3 trunk the word "trunk" has many meanings, and I just list two of them: 1) a trunk of a tree is the large main stem that produces the branches 2) a trunk of an elephant is its long nose it uses to lift food, water and other things 4 corral : corral is a closed place designed to keep the animals without escaping. 5 rush if you rush to somewhere, you go there as quickly as you can 6 hemmed if you are hemmed by the elephants, that means you are sieged by the elephants. 7 brandish brandish something means to wave something with your hands for example: he brandished the long sword to try to threaten the huge dog. 8 herd: herd means a large group of animals who live together for example: the wolf her always eat people's sheep herd 9 furious extremely angry He is furious because they beat his brother severely. 10 penned force to stay in a small palce 11 bar long straight piece of mental it also means a place where people may get together and drink something 12 fury very strong anger 13 stroke touch lightly and repeatedly 14 entice persuade to do (also not good) in the essay, the tamed elephants try to entice the caught wild elephants to be tamed by Ceylon natives 15 contrive design, or make in the essay, the natives contrive a big corral to catch the wild elephants 16 coil loop， or some wires wound into circle to wind into circles in the essay, the natives contrive to slip a strong rope round one of the elephant's legs and then to coil round the trunk of the tree. OK, so much for today! I hope I won't forget thus words! Good night everyone!