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I’ve had this link sitting in my starred items for a while, so I’m going to link it so you can enjoy. Thing is, I remember some of these! Ouch!
I’ve had this link sitting in my starred items for a while, so I’m going to link it so you can enjoy. Thing is, I remember some of these! Ouch!
I’ve often watched John Webb (my stepson) pitch a very good game only to lose either because the other team’s pitcher was also pitching a good game or because the bats on his team just didn’t come to life. Well, it happens to the best of them. The Angels lost yesterday, 1-0, despite pitching 8…
I found a new service today via my WebProNews e-mail called Twellow.com. What Twellow.com does is let you easily find people that you might want to follow. It is, as it’s name suggests, a sort of yellow pages for Twitter. For example, it was able to connect me with Teh Ceiling Cat, and who wouldn’t…
Today I deleted a spam comment from this blog. That is not very memorable. What was different was that the first line stuck with me. This is a very funny blog! I loved the way you … One of the techniques of comment spammers is to include generically congratulatory text on the grounds the bloggers…
My local Publix grocery store has been remodeling for a few weeks. In general, I don’t care for the reorganization. That’s because I’m a list shopper, and not a browser. I am looking for specific things and I like them to stay in the same place. But that wasn’t the fail I noticed. In reorganization…
From the folks at smartermsp.com, we have some brief history of #FORTRAN (#TECHTIMEWARP). I wanted to add my humor note, as I was working with computers while FORTRAN was still fairly commonly used. I studied it and took a challenge exam, getting 4 quarter hours of college credit in the language, but I never owned…
… or something. Scientists are thinking about galactic communications using Cepheid variable stars.
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