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MickC @ November 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
I’m leaving in a bit to go drop off my application for grad school. Here’s the essay that I had to compose for it.
War is never fun. It is less inviting when you find yourself coming late to a battle on a field friendly to your opponent. It is absolutely hostile when [...]
MickC @ November 24, 2004 # No Comment Yet
I’m heading out of town shortly for the Thanksgiving holidays, but there’s a new link to be seen.
Google now has a search for scholarly (that is, “peer-reviewed”) work.
http://www.scholar.google.com/
I know I’ll be going there for information I need that is actually somewhat reliable.
MickC @ November 23, 2004 # No Comment Yet
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: I’m going to print the lyrics to my 3 year old daughter’s favorite song.
Ahem.
Waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle,
Quack, quack, quack
Feathers on my tummy and
Feathers on my back
I’m a duck!
QUACK!
Ahem.
MickC @ November 23, 2004 # One Comment
Phishing is a big problem. This month’s Reader’s Digest includes an article with the clever title “Phishing: Don’t Take the Bait”. And their discussion forum has a small thread where a small number of people have opened up enough to admit falling for the connivings of phishers.
Part of the problem is that phishers [...]
MickC @ November 21, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Apparently, we need to go back and review a bit more extensively the article on Iraqi civilian casualties which was published in the 29 October 2004 edition of The Lancet.
This is an extra-ordinary article in several aspects. The first of these is clearly the speed with which the article was submitted, peer reviewed and [...]
MickC @ November 18, 2004 # 12 Comments
There’s something that has been eating at me for a while now. Others have blogged about it, and now I guess it’s my turn.
13,000,000
20,000,000
495,000
14,429 - 16,579
Those are the numbers of civilian casualties from World War I (the Great War), World War II, the American phase of the Vietnam Wars and Iraq. Please note [...]
MickC @ November 18, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Ever wonder how much email Bill Gates gets in a day?
Steve Ballmer gives us the answer finally: “Bill literally receives 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam.”
So harsh is this problem that Microsoft has special technology to filter his email, along with several employees to look after things. “Literally [...]
MickC @ November 17, 2004 # No Comment Yet
When you think of Washington, D.C., you probably think of Congress, the President, Marion Barry (with or without cocaine), the murder rate, or Craig T. Nelson in The District. What probably does not come to mind is eBay.
But, the Washington Post is reporting that the District will be using eBay to conduct its unclaimed [...]
MickC @ November 14, 2004 # 2 Comments
As previously mentioned, my wife was in an auto collision Thursday morning. Since then we’ve spent much time dealing with insurance companies.
There are two companies involved here: GEICO and Texas Farm Bureau. GEICO is our insurance company. Texas Farm Bureau is the insurance company for the girl who hit our van.
When my [...]
MickC @ November 11, 2004 # 2 Comments
My wife was in an automobile collision this morning. When I saw this (click on images for larger versions):
I wondered how she got home at all.
What happened? A high school girl ran a red light and collided with Carol (who was going to McDonald’s for breakfast after dropping our five year old off [...]
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