Shawn Lankton Online

My father, a well known psychotherapist, uses a personality model known as the Interpersonal Check List (ICL). This model is notoriously hard to administer, score, and graph. I developed a program to do all of these things automatically.

This is a 128 question test where people mark whether or not adjectives describe them. Thus a person might check yes to “Good Leader” and no to “Hard to Impress.” Once all the appropriate answers are marked, each one is weighed and put into an appropriate bin. The size of each bin marks the prominence of that personality trait in the person.

I’ve used this program as my first e-commerce venture. Visit http://www.shawnlankton.com/icl to get information about the program, download the fully-featured demo, or purchase the full program!

Most people have heard about twitter. I don’t really get it, but I’ve heard pundit after pundit extolling on its virtues for networking and getting access to the vast experience and intelligence of your contacts.

Like a good scientist, I’m going to do an experiment. I encourage anyone who knows me (or would like to) to participate. I’ll be ‘tweeting’ over the next few weeks, trying to find followers, and trying to find other people to follow. If you don’t have a twitter account, get one, let me know, and we’ll do the experiment together. If you have an account and want me to follow you then contact me or post a comment and let me know. If you want to follow me, my username is shawnlankton.

Oh the things we do to stay relevant in these turbulent technological times.

Once you get through the process of writing your paper, getting it reviewed, making revisions, and finally getting that ACCEPT email in your inbox, the work isn’t done. You must prepare the figures in the paper so that they can be easily used by the IEEE to make a nice, high-quality, correctly laid-out, final print version of the article. This process could be quite complex and time consuming.

This post will cover some tips, tricks, and scripts to get your journal submission ready to go quickly and easily. The big challenges are:

• Getting all figures into single eps files
• Creating a list of figure captions

The good news is that both of these are delightfully quick if you’ve been using LaTeX to compose your article. Read on to find out how Read the rest of this entry »