Archive for April, 2006
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
That's right, today is National High Five Day. This holiday has a long and storied history, starting all the way back in 2002 at the University of Virginia.
I told a few people in my lab about it, and one of them (Jen) said, "Oh yeah, I think I've heard of ...
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
I know I am very late to this party, but is screen one of the most beautiful GNU/Linux commands or what? I am in the process of fixing some file server issues in the lab, and part of this process involves copying large amounts of data back and forth (on ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
President Bush nominated Rob Portman today to be the new director of the Office of Management and Budget. This post was vacated when Josh Bolten, the former director, replaced Andy Card as President Bush's chief of staff last month.
One of Mr. Portman's statements struck me as fairly interesting:
"Now is not ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
The defense attornies for Zacarias Moussaoui, the convicted co-conspirator of the the terrorists who participated in the September 11 attacks, have called a behavioral specialist as a witness to make the case that Moussaoi's life should be spared. Jurors will soon decide whether he should spend the rest of his ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
We went roller skating on Saturday night to celebrate Michelle's twenty fifth birthday, and I must admit that I'm still feeling it this morning. Thirty six hours later, my neck is still a little sore from one of my two spills. Yup, I fell. Twice. And one of them occurred ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
This morning I purchased my first $30 tank of gas. I drive a Honda Civic and have done so for around four years now. My car took 10.339 gallons at $2.979 per gallon (for regular gas) for a total of $30.80.
$30 to fill up a Civic? That's what things are ...
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