Country Keepers by Gary Petersen

Family Entertainment it Ain't Sheesh!  I suppose it was only a matter of time until something like this opened up.

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Auditing Classes at MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making some class notes available on the Internet – starting tomorrow – through their OpenCourseWare program.  Potentially interesting stuff for technical types.

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Yer Out! – Or Maybe Not Newsweek: Umps call foul on electronics. Baseball is using advanced electronics to second-guess its umpires. Guess who’s not happy about it. [MSNBC] Wah, wah, wah!  I can just about hear the umpires whining.  The headline above isn't entirely correct, as baseball is not using this tool as a form [...]

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Two of a Kind Two quotes to consider: John H. Patterson. “An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”  [Quotes of the Day] Theodore Roosevelt. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those [...]

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Keep on Rolling! Iowa State keeps on winning, dominating the Nebraska Cornhuskers on the football field today.  Dominating the Huskers.  Wow!  I have to admit I never thought I'd catch myself saying that. But they did dominate, winning 36-14 today.  Iowa State outpassed Nebraska, 220-192 yards.  No real surprise there, (even though 90 of the [...]

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Google Advanced Search Operators From Brian Buck via John Robb, this site at Google which explains advanced operators for searches.

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Google Search Function Added Thanks to John Robb, I've added a Google search box to this weblog.  You can search either the entire web or just this weblog (specifically, gary.countrykeepers.com).

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Inserting Google into Your Weblog From John Robb, code to insert a Google search into your weblog.

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Teaching I found this article from Newsweek on what a retired public school teacher believes is required to fix the problems with public education. The plain truth is we need to return to the method that’s most effective: a teacher in front of a chalkboard and a roomful of willing students. The old way is [...]

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RSSDistiller How-To Paolo Valdemarin offers this how-to article on using RSSDistiller to aggregate an XML feed from a news source.

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