Sales Pitch

Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2004 @ 2:46 pm
Filed Under Joel, Stories
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Sunday afternoon, fifteen years or so ago....

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Boom Town

Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 @ 9:23 am
Filed Under History, OK Corral
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John Clum, Wyatt & Sadie/Josie Earp, George Parsons, Nellie Cashman--all lived in Tombstone in 1881, all lived long lives, and all spent many years in mining camps in many places. This short paragraph expresses an important force in all those lives, and in the lives of many less heralded folks who mined, or lived near mines. To all appearances, everyone on this list would have lived pretty much the same life with or without the savage gunfight which appears to define the Tombstone story.

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Living with POPFile

Posted on Saturday, July 3, 2004 @ 2:24 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security, Stories
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Time, I think, for a POPFile update.  It's been a bit over three months, and over seven thousand messages, since I last discussed the program.  Quickly reviewed:  I started using the program in the wake of last August's spam (virus) epidemic.  Right from the start I've used PF as a mail sorting program, not just [...]

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Perfection, and a note on imperfection

Posted on Thursday, July 1, 2004 @ 3:13 pm
Filed Under BB Research Notes, Baseball, MWLguide
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There are no fully reliable sources of information about Midwest League history. Those of us who research MWL history find recording mistakes almost every time we look into something. This is mainly because the records are kept by fallible human beings; fifty-five years is a long stretch and affords many opportunities for errors.

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