Monthly Archives: October 2004

Notes from the South

This weekend’s being spent at DANGER, a sort of but not really impromptu meeting of mathematicians in Tennessee. (DANGER stands for something, but damned if I can remember what anymore.) I suppose you could technically say that this is the … Continue reading

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That’s dot-com to you

Am I the only one who’s moderately disturbed that the U.S. Post Office’s website is at http://www.usps.com/, with http://www.usps.gov/ set up as a redirect? I mean, sure, there’s been a lot of abuse of .com, .net. and .org domains, with … Continue reading

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The art of being careful what one wishes for

It wasn’t that long ago that I was complaining about how warm it was, it being autumn at all. The national weather service forecast tells me that the temperature in my vicinity is expected to dip below freezing this coming … Continue reading

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