Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Sixteen games were played in the NCAA men's basketball tournament today. My record: 12-4. Not too bad, eh?
My proudest pick was (12) Texas A&M over (5) Syracuse. For some reason I saw that coming a mile away, with Syracuse living on the edge for a week just hoping to make ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
I probably spent more time than I should have with this, but I successfully recreated my 2006 NCAA men's college basketball tournament bracket in HTML form. I am posting it now, so that we can all have a good laugh when we see how badly my predictions play out as ...
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
My best friend, Bobby, gave me a call today to see how things were going. Both of us being Texas alums, we are still glowing about Texas' defeat of USC for the college football national championship this past season. We have both watched some heartbreaking Longhorns losses in our day, ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
On Wednesday, the Appropriations Committee shot down an approved deal that would allow a United Arab Emirates-owned company to control port operations at several of America's largest ports. Why was this a problem? The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was strongly tied to many of the 9/11 terrorists, acting as a ...
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I have just started up my own personal beer and wine blog that I have affectionately named The Bottom Shelf. The title pretty much gives it away. I like beer. I like wine. And I'm poor. Put those three things together, and what do you have? The bottom shelf. Well, ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
I needed to find an easy way the other day to make a simple list in LaTeX. Specifically, I was recreating a problem set, and the problems were numbered one through three but were aligned nicely. I tried using the tabular environment to recreate it, but that wasn't working. And ...
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