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Archive for January, 2008

Finally, a use for all those stupid Yellow Pages I keep getting

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I finally found a use for some of the many Yellow Pages I keep getting:

Now, my monitor is finally at eye level and I don’t have to strain my neck looking down.  I guess “Progressive Plumbing and Piping”, “Sunrise Dental” and “Smiles of Cary” got their money’s worth when advertising in the Talking Phone [...]

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Cash-strapped states resort to odd taxes - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Cash-strapped states resort to odd taxes - Yahoo! News
“That’s the allure of New York’s proposal to tax…”
Wow, you mean New York has another, new way to increase taxes?  What shocking news.
Part of the reason we left NY is because the taxes are so damn high.  Basically, they give all the tax breaks to corporations [...]

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Photo clues lead to camera’s owner - Yahoo! News

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Photo clues lead to camera’s owner - Yahoo! News
Sometimes, there is hope in the world
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Bank of America Fun

Friday, January 25th, 2008

My son and I rolled a bunch of my son’s change over the past few days and my wife brought it to Bank of America to deposit it in his account.  Now, we didn’t do a great job of filling the sleeves (he’s still young) but the values were more or less close and [...]

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Apache Mahout - Overview

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Apache Mahout - Overview
Just thought I would let people know that Mahout is officially a Lucene subproject at the Apache Software Foundation.  Mahout’s goal is to build practical, scalable machine learning libraries for a variety of uses.
Popularity: 9% [?]

Popularity: 9% [?]

You’ll Never guess what I got today! I’m so excited!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

That’s right, I got my fourth “Yellow Pages” of the year.  I am just filled with glee!  As if I need another door stop.
When did it become the case that business have the right to dump their product on me just because it is free?  I don’t want it!  Why should my tax dollars [...]

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