Archive for January, 2006

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Toyota and NASCAR

And now for something completely different. Toyota has been racing in the Craftsman Truck Series since 2004. Now they will be racing in the Nextel Cup Series, starting in 2007. There hasn’t been a foreign nameplate in NASCAR since Jaguar in the 1950s. Update: The offical announcement Not there are any “American” or “foreign” cars [...]

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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Rocky Top, Tennessee

Well, the UT men’s basketball team beat another #2 team. First it was Texas, this time it was Florida. And the won in front of the largest crowd in 15 years, 24,011. And according to some, Bruce Pearl is going to be Coach of the Year.

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Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Delicious Library news

In case anyone is confused (or hungry) I’m talking about the personal library software for the Mac, Delicious Library. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a good article about Delicious Monster, the company behind Delicious Library. I’ve played around with Delicious Library, I’m not that good with scanning barcodes with my iSight camera. For the article it [...]

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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

New semester and problems solved

Well, my first class seems like it will be ok. It’s Quantitative Research II, Analysis of Variance. The texts are good, much clearer than last semester’s regression analysis class. The instructor seems good, he actually took time to explain things until everyone understood, and has a very different teaching style than last semester’s professor. There [...]

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