Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Last night was the opening night of the 2007-2008 NBA season. My Houston Rockets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 95-93, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Portland Trailblazers 106-97. You know what this means, don't you? Both the Rockets and the Spurs are on pace to go 82-0 and ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
It looks like I have transitioned more or less successfully to the new server, which is a brand new iMac. I am surprised how relatively painless the transition was. The old server just died a horrible death, one that would not allow the machine to boot. Fortunately I had made ...
Posted in Meta | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I'm content that I'll never get to the bottom of the morass of issues surrounding Joe Torre's situation with the Yankees. But I can't help thinking, why fire Joe Torre?
What's the one, primary job a manager has? To put his players in the best possible position to succeed. Don't get ...
Posted in Pro Baseball | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
The Cleveland Indians destroyed the New York Yankees Thursday night 12-3 in game one of their playoff series. I watched most of the game, and it still surprises me the Indians could generate as much offense as they did. If someone told me before the game that the score would ...
Posted in Pro Baseball | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I have recently ramped up my usage of the ELinks text browser. I have been working on our servers a bit, and I often do not have X windows enabled at the time. ELinks is a great way to check my Gmail account and goof off on the web when ...
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