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This is really just a placemark.
I picked up a new MS Optical wireless mouse for 35 bucks. I was getting tired of the cord getting caught up and just generally being a PITA.
They say the 2 AA’s will last 6 mos. I’m going to test that out.

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I’ve been noticing off and on (more on recently) that bloglines is sort of acting not so good.
It’ll display items that I’ve already read (not an updated post), or even better when it does update and I go to read, there will be posts that are 5 days old.
So, with this general unhappiness comes the […]

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I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it is just yahoo.
Every girl that I know that has a yahoo address uses _ to break up first/last (or in some cases middle initial).
Compare that to almost every (maybe every) guy I know who has a yahoo address doesn’t use _ […]

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Dave writes:

Knowledge is something that can be given without loss. You can walk up to someone, trade ideas, and both of you can walk away with more than you arrived with.

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Just in case you were wondering why we aren’t voting today….

In the United States, elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. They therefore fall between November 2 and November 8. In even numbered years, members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms, and about one third of […]

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The Hubbert peak theory, also known as peak oil, concerns the long-term rate of conventional oil (and other fossil fuel) extraction and depletion. It is named after American geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who created a model of known reserves, and proposed, in 1956, in a paper he presented [1] at a meeting of the American […]

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“They don’t tell you that in school. They teach you how to solve problems. They give you problems in which you have to decide how to best go about coming up with a solution. When you get out, and you’re given a distilled, spec’d, analyzed sheet with class names, methods, and […]

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I applied to college one evening, after dinner, in the fall of my senior year in high school. College applicants in Ontario, in those days, were given a single sheet of paper which listed all the universities in the province. It was my job to rank them in order of preference. Then I had to […]

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This year’s MacArthur fellows have been announced.
The MacArthur Fellows Program (which is also known as the “Genius Award”), awards unrestricted fellowships to people “who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”
Winning this award means you get $500,000 to do something cool. To do […]

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I’m sort of noticing that Bloglines will take its very sweet time in getting RSS updates for the site, depending on if you’re using the old RSS link.
If you’re subscribed to http://berserk.org/index.rdf, you may want to try updating to this.

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