Monthly Archives: April 2006

[PyPedal] Beta 9 released, Beta 10 imminent

Last night I released Beta 9 to address a showstopper bug reported by a colleague at the University of Guelph. I won;t bore you with all of the details, but it has to do with the handling of user-specified missing … Continue reading

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Code Monkey

This morning I stumbled across Jonathan Coulton’s blog. From his blog you may download the brilliant, or at least very entertaining, song “Code Monkey”. How good are the lyrics? Here’s a sample: Code monkey have boring meeting with boring manager … Continue reading

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Problem solved

Okay, problem solved. In a frenzy of clicking one day I changed something that shouldna hae been changed. It’s fixed now. If you’d like to comment on a blog entry click where it says, e.g., “No comments” in the entry … Continue reading

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D’oh! Blog breakage.

Hm…it looks like something is broken. Raychal, you should be able to click on the title of the blog entry to get to a screen which contains a comment box. That’s clearly broken. I’m working on it. What else have … Continue reading

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All’s Well in Endwell

Well, here we are in Endwell, NY, after a leisurely drive up through Pennsylvania following a breakfast in Baltimore with our friend Gai. Highlights of the trip included a stop at the Steamtown National Historic Site in lovely Scranton, PA. … Continue reading

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All My Sins

All of my sins laid bare: Greed: Medium Gluttony: Medium Wrath: Low Sloth: Low Envy: Very Low Lust: Medium Pride: Very Low Take the Seven Deadly Sins QuizD’oh!

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All my worldly wisdom

Hm. Not much to say here. I’m trying to jam a SAS job through before I leave this afternoon. We’re going to New York State by way of lovely Scranton, PA, this weekend. I’ve never been to Pennsylvania before, and … Continue reading

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CRAPP-tacular

This hit my mailbox a little earlier today: Attached is the Civil Rights Accountability Policy and Procedures, DR-4300-010, which is also located on the Civil Rights Staff webpage: www.ars.usda.gov/eeo. I guess not everyone thinks like I do, because the first … Continue reading

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[PyPedal] Beta 7 released!

Woohoo! I’ve made a new release of PyPedal. Get it hot from the oven over at Sourceforge, if their site ever starts answering back. I really want to brag about my three-generation pedigree report because it took a lot of … Continue reading

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[PyPedal] Stepwise refinement

Well, I had good intentions. I was going to finish writing pyp_reports/pdf3GenPed() this morning and then start writing the new PyPedal manuscript. I only finished one of those things. Guess which one? The three-times-longer rule strikes again! On the plus … Continue reading

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