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Archive for January, 2008

Minn. health system purges drug trinkets - Yahoo! News

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Minn. health system purges drug trinkets - Yahoo! News
“I’ve never seen nor heard of a systematic roundup of pens and coffee mugs before,” Johnson said. “It’s a bit draconian. But the onus is on us now to do a better job of explaining the job and the importance of marketing representatives. Unfortunately there are [...]

When do you workout?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I have committed myself to a race this year, my first one in over a year and have gotten back into a pretty good training routine (nothing formal just yet) and have switched back to working out around lunchtime again.  Before that, I usually worked out right after taking my son to the bus stop.  [...]

Baseball tells Congress it’s nearing steroids accord - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Baseball tells Congress it’s nearing steroids accord - Yahoo! News
I am (tongue in cheek, of course) thinking of forming an association of a bunch of really good computer programmers:
We’ll pay dues, have some professional programming events where we compete to see who can complete certain security tasks (setup by the association.) We probably [...]

Mitchell testifies on steroids in baseball - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Mitchell testifies on steroids in baseball - Yahoo! News
But Major League Players Association president Don Fehr said his group needs time to examine the recommendations before reopening the players’ contract to allow expanded testing.
In other words, they need more time to cover their tracks…
I don’t understand how something that is a felony to do [...]

Newton Running Follow Up

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I have put about 15 miles on my new Newton Running shoes and there are a couple of things I can add to my first impressions and my first post on the topic.
First off, the shoes are still damn ugly, but in a beautiful damn ugly way. My wife has vowed to never [...]

More On Wikia Search

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Dennis Kubes has a nice response on the Lucene mailing list about what Wikia is up to and I think it goes a long way in showing that most of the pundits (TechCrunch) out there just don’t get it.  They are BUILDING a search engine.  It is not complete.  It is an open source project.  [...]