Dec
19
2007
Everyone is getting New Year’s cards this year. Woo-hoo! This is because the cards that I ordered, after weeks spent trying to find ones I liked, just showed up today. I hope this is ok. Anyway, this is the 2nd call for addresses. Send me yours if I don’t have it. Chances are good I [...]
Dec
11
2007
I stayed home today sick, with a sore throat; now I am off to bed. There are too many ideas and not enough words in my life; or maybe too many words and not enough ideas. I can’t quite decide.
Dec
10
2007
Personally, I’m plumping for the Middle English Wikipedia to succeed. Pity I didn’t take much beyond Chaucer in school.
Dec
08
2007
From the archives (woo-hoo!), this seems to be the first blog entry I ever wrote about WP, back in 2003. I kept my promise and turned it into a school project, didn’t I?! And a work project, and an outside consulting project, and a jetsetting-around-the-world project… sigh. I was right, though; I had found my [...]
Dec
08
2007
An ad in my google mail proved irresistible. It was to this: Greg Zarow, emergency statistician. Now, that’s pretty fantastic. When I need stats, it’s generally an emergency; and the idea of being able to call someone with a soothing voice and a powerful calculator when panicked sounds pretty appealing. As a business model, it [...]
Dec
06
2007
A psychedelic acid jazz or trip-hop band? Why no! It’s yet another subject heading in materials science.