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{ Monthly Archives } September 2006

The Crank Call that wasn’t…

When I was a kid, way back before caller id and on demand callback, we would occasionally make crank calls. You know, The Classics. Things like ten pound balls, running refriderators, [...]

A Karmatic kick to the nuts

Once upon a time in a land far, far away; a room mate said to me, You must have done something really bad to be so karmaticly screwed. You see, there’s something of [...]

It’s O-fficial..

I figured it’s time to get back to work — running seriously that is, so I’ve signed up for my next marathon.
In January of next year, I will be in sunny Florida running in the ING [...]

Grudge Match - Iowa vs Iowa State.

The Daily Iowan published an image of the Iowa vs Iowa State historical grudge match and it’s really funny. Check it out!
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A re-correction?

The Daily Iowan published a “re-correction” today. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen such a thing, and it’s good low-rent humor. Enjoy!
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EJB 3.0 tutorial

Netbeans.org has published a “Getting started” EJB 3.0 tutorial using Netbeans 5.5b2 and Jboss 4.0.4. Though it’s NetBeans centric, it’s worth a look.
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Iowa’s Epic Voyager

Today, the Daily Iowan had a good article titled Iowa’s epic voyager which is a history of James Van Allen. Van Allen, who passed on Aug 9th, was a well known and popular professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and a pioneer in experimental physics.
I didn’t ever have the pleasure of meeting Van Allen, [...]

Marion Jones cleared

ESPN and Eurosport are among the news outlets reporting that Marion Jones was cleared of doping charges after her B sample tested clean. The news is great for Jones — who [...]

8.94774517

Today, I did a little math and arrived at the following answer: 8.94774517. What, you might ask, is the significance of this number? Here’s the rest of the story…
While I was reading a discussion on support of various web browsers, there was a [...]

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