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The Statistician's BluesThe Statistician's BluesThe Statistician's Blues 04/09/2004 03:54 PM ...overheard today on a mailing list I'm subscribed to, in response to a question about a particular statistic: Sixty-four percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot Too funny... I've seen that happen too much to know it's absolutely true... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)The Statistician's BluesGrok Headline matches for The Statistician's BluesDRM BluesDRM Blues 12/19/2002 03:34 PM My apologies to everyone who is waiting for the mp3 recordings of the At Large meetings in Amsterdam, but the... LED BluesLED Blues 04/11/2004 11:55 AM JOEL JOHNSON -- Apparently not everyone thinks blue LEDs are as desirable as electronics manufacturers do. Globe and Mail's Ian Johnson has his panties in a bind over the recent ubiquity of blue in consumer products and hopes their days of distracting him with their shiny shiny are numbered. Of... Down low bluesDown low blues 08/16/2004 08:32 AM All I want is a boyfriend. But as a black gay man, I keep hooking up with men who not only shun commitment -- they don't even want to come out of the closet. Over-40 bluesOver-40 blues 08/03/2004 09:24 AM Men my age seem to be fixated on breeders who are under 40. Got Those DVD BluesGot Those DVD Blues 07/22/2004 04:39 AM Technology Review Jul 22 2004 9:03AM GMT Nuclear BluesNuclear Blues 11/04/2003 12:12 PM Nuclear plant operation correlates with increased infant mortality rate. Correlation may not prove causation, but these numbers are pretty dramatic. Benchmarking BluesBenchmarking Blues 08/09/2004 01:31 PM Notes from the Lab: We benchmark. Our competitors benchmark. We post results. They post results. Sometimes they conflict. Sometimes they don't. But what does it really mean, and why do we do it at all? Firefox BluesFirefox Blues 07/15/2004 07:10 AM For some reason, Firefox address bar stopped working today. It simply stopped updating and also won't accept new URLs entered into it. Only changes I made to the system today were latest set of Microsoft security patches and Sage, a Firefox extension which Tim Bray recently mentioned. I uninstalled Sage but the problem persisted. So I proceeded to uninstall all the extensions and restarted. Still dead. So I uninstalled Firefox 0.9.1 completely and went to the Mozilla website. Woo. Firefox 0.9.2 was out. So I installed it only to find the problem still there. Hmm. Could it be that those five Microsoft security patches I installed today somehow disabled Firefox address bar? I doubt it because Mozilla 1.6's address bar still works. Has Sage got too clever and messed up some Firefox settings and failed to restore it during uninstall? I don't have the answers yet because I don't have time to dick around just so I can point a finger at Microsoft. I am sure there will be an uproar in no time if it is true so I am going to wait and listen. Meanwhile, I am back on IE. Update: After posting, I realized that Mozilla application data was still in the Documents and Settings directory. Wiping that out fixed the address bar. So it looks like the problem was Sage. That's the trouble with being extension happy. Suburban bluesSuburban blues 07/01/2004 08:44 AM I'm tired of the large mortgage and the SUV and the gym memberships. I want out! The Blues for LEDsThe Blues for LEDs 04/11/2004 09:30 AM Oxford BluesOxford Blues 01/06/2005 03:21 PM The apparel maker is pulling back its fiscal 2005 EPS estimates. AOL Dial-Up BluesAOL Dial-Up Blues 11/19/2003 02:45 AM I have never been a fan of AOL and have always given friends of mine the dickens when I find... TurboTax BluesTurboTax Blues 04/16/2004 02:16 AM With only a few hours til the tax filing deadline, I was having problem with TurboTax. It reported no errors so I proceeded to file it electronically, but it kept saying it couldn't do it because there were errors. So I went back and found that some field in California tax return was not supposed to be a negative number and it should be greater than the number above. Well, the number above came from the federal side and was negative. After an hour of going back and forth which TurboTax really sucks at (why can't it be more like a browser and let me spawn new windows and navigate back and forth?), I finally started ripping out forms and wiping out deductions until the damn thing filed without complaining. I am paying a bit more tax than I would have otherwise, but at least it's done and over with until next year. Web Hosting BluesWeb Hosting Blues 01/25/2003 11:53 PM I apologize if you've tried to access the site in the past 12 hours or so or have tried to email me in that time, my host seems to be having problems (too often, unfortunately). I've been thinking about getting a dedicated server through RackShack but I just can't afford 100-130 dollars a month. Anyone out there in blogspace want to go halves? I've received a lot of feedback on the new design, and I've been able to clear up bugs here and there on various browsers. Keep the reports coming, or post comments below. Backup BluesBackup Blues 03/13/2003 10:16 AM Ugh! I was just supposed to make a quick stop by at work to boot a server. When I got... BT gets the Bluephone bluesBT gets the Bluephone blues 04/08/2005 10:08 AM Presses ahead with 'dud' project The Buyout BluesThe Buyout Blues 04/18/2005 06:31 PM What bothers me about Adobe's Macromedia buyout is that it further narrows choice in a marketplace that already ahd too few choices. By Jackie Dove, Macworld The Broadband BluesThe Broadband Blues 03/22/2005 09:57 PM Would your life be thrown into chaos if your broadband connection went dead for over a week? Dave recently found the answer to this question the hard way. Sidekick bluesSidekick blues 03/20/2003 10:02 PM And so I have reached the stage in my Hiptop (Sidekick) relationship when I have been forced to call customer... Santy bluesSanty blues 12/22/2004 01:57 AM CNET Asia Dec 22 2004 6:19AM GMT Instant Messaging BluesInstant Messaging Blues 04/27/2004 04:12 PM Opinion: IM is out of control. With more features being added all the time, it's more useful than ever. But provider incompatibility and ubiquitous ads make it more annoying than ever, too. STLtoday - Sports - BluesSTLtoday - Sports - Blues 04/18/2004 03:21 AM Blues player is held in murder plot case .. St. Louis Post-Dispatch .. Read article stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/Sports/Blues/3D10B6
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in+murder+plot+case Illinois Riverboat BluesIllinois Riverboat Blues 05/13/2004 03:27 PM Isle of Capri's license pulled and Chicago mayor proposes city-owned casino. Does Your Gremlin Sing The Blues?Does Your Gremlin Sing The Blues? 07/13/2004 11:48 PM Need a new gizmo for your pet Gizmo? OK, that was a weak stab at comedy with a less than subtle poke at the ’80s movie Gremlins. Unlike the nasty little green dudes in that film, this Gremlin works to download music for you from Wi-Fi connections. The true name for this mobile device is the MusicGremlin, and the device’s manufacturer is in the process of offering their users access to 500,000 songs once the licensing goes through. Mo' Beta Testing BluesMo' Beta Testing Blues 05/29/2004 04:50 AM More and more companies are releasing software and online services that seem to be mired in a perpetual beta-testing state, leaving users to wonder what it takes to get to a version 1.0. Many developers and users say the constant tweaking is a dangerous trend. By Daniel Terdiman. Send-back bluesSend-back blues 07/06/2004 01:54 AM USA Today Jul 6 2004 6:03AM GMT Web Exclusive: MBA Summer BluesWeb Exclusive: MBA Summer Blues 07/12/2004 05:41 AM You are a newly minted MBA. You don't have a job. You are not alone. Here's what you should do. UK IT heads have the outsourcing bluesUK IT heads have the outsourcing blues 09/14/2004 11:06 AM Dissatisfied with results, but bravely persevere Post Holiday BluesPost Holiday Blues 12/30/2004 12:35 AM Christmas has come and gone and New Years is on its way yo come and go and things are as they always are. For... Linux VMware BluesLinux VMware Blues 09/15/2004 01:49 AM If you are running a Linux guest under VMware like me and my blog's hyperlinks are green instead of blue, turn on subpixel font rendering to get the blues. FYI, I am running RedHat 9 under VMware running on XP, primarily for development and testing. For example, I needed to write a milter so I initially wrote a C++ version using Eclipse running under RH9 VMware guest. The milter was talking to sendmail server running inside the same virtual machine. Eclipse CDT running inside the VM was rather difficult to work with so rewrote the milter in pure Java using Eclipse running on XP. To debug, I configured the sendmail server running inside the VM to invoke the pure Java milter running under Eclipse debugger outside the VM.Then I sent both plain text and multipart MIME messages using Evolution, running inside the VM, as well as Outlook, running on another machine, to the sendmail server inside the VM which in turn invoked the milter running outside the VM. While all this might be confusing to some, it worked amazingly well. Sharks Defeat Blues 3-1 (AP)Sharks Defeat Blues 3-1 (AP) 04/16/2004 12:59 AM AP - The San Jose Sharks' incredible regular season was no mistake. They're deep, fast and a little bit lucky — and they're moving ahead in the playoffs. I've got the Ph.D. application panic
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