Monthly Archives: September 2007

Fresno, CA

I’m not loving on Fresno. So far I’ve endured the worst Caesar salad ever, a 12″ TV, and a conversation among patrons in the restaurant last night so stupid that it’s permanently affected my ability to do my job. At … Continue reading

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Visalia, CA

Greetings from sunny, but dry, central California! I was invited out here to Visalia to speak about best prediction at an event sponsored by AgriTech Analytics and Holstein Association USA. My talk was yesterday afternoon and went well, I think. … Continue reading

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Feelin’ fat in Baton Rouge

Well, here I am again in Baton Rouge. I delayed my trip by a day due to a minor Henry illness. He’s fine, though, so there’s nothing to worry about. I flew into New Orleans where I was met by … Continue reading

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Sync Multiple Google Calendars to Your PDA using Kontact and KPilot

If you’re like me you’ve got several Google calendars sitting around. I’ve got a personal calendar, as well as calendars for different groups of which I’m a part. Yesterday I realized that only one of those calendars was being synced … Continue reading

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Typesetting Partitioned Matrices with OOoLatex

As I wrote yesterday I’ve been using OOoLatex to typeset the equations for the best prediction manual. In one part of the manual, when discussing the calculation of correlations among traits on arbitrary days in milk, I wanted to typeset … Continue reading

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OpenOffice.org and LaTeX-stacy

I’ve been working on the user’s manual for the Major New Version of the best prediction code that we hope to soon release to industry. I’m writing it in OpenOffice.org, and I’ve been grumpy all day over how bad the … Continue reading

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