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Monday, October 10th, 2005
We've been car shopping lately since the 1995 Passat is starting to be less reliable than ever (which is saying a lot) and doesn't cut it for travelling to the country with a dog or going to ultimate tournaments with a bunch of teammates and lots of gear. Storage and ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
I've been watching the whole intelligent design (ID) controversy from the sidelines for some time with mixed feelings. My focus in university was evolutionary biology. I spent quite some time working in a laboratory for experimental evolution (working with microbes with no artificial genetic modifications - strictly natural processes were ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
STEP UP FOR THE CURE - 2005
"The team was triumphant, totalling a distance greater than 20 times Mt. Everest"
Total Stairs Climbed : 789,184 Total Vertical Distance : 301,136 m
I was expecting it ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2005
Here is where I will be this weekend: http://www.stepupforthecure.com
I have no idea how hard 24 hours of stair running might be, but I imagine it will sorely test our limits. When I make it through I will be sure to pass on what I have learned.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Andre Agassi defeated James Blake in the quarterfinals of the US Open tennis tournament a few moments ago. This in itself is not amazing unless you consider that Blake has been playing the tennis of his life and was up 2 sets 6-3 6-3 against the 35 year old Agassi. ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Watching the news in the last few days following the disaster in Katrina's wake has provided lots of opportunity to remember what we take for granted in modern society. Many of the images of anarchy and unattended suffering recalled my (probably flawed) memory of Mad Max movies. Imagining oneself in ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
While I don't want to distract the reality and immediacy of the disaster in the New Orleans area, a friend pointed out this October 2001 article to me and it is hard not to reflect on our prescience of this event:
"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Just a suggestion...
Check out the simultaneously useful and distracting Google Suggest: as you type the search field expands into a drop down list providing anticipatory or alternative searches and allowing you to see the difference in the size of the result sets for each of them. A great way of ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Today is a highly appropriate returning to life for this blog, which was one of many hobbies laid aside while starting a new venture. Today is a happy day since Nudecybot likes networking, bared skin and mad dashing, and today we get to combine all of them.
Old-School Human Area Networks
Lets ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
Anyone who uses a personal computer (or who reads the paper) is aware that PCs are highly susceptible to a raft of problems that fall into the domain of "computer security". Even my parents know that computers need to be patched frequently and are aware (first hand!) that these patches ...
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