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		<title>2006 in Review&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past year was a great one. It was full of ups with a huge net positive. The year started with my admission into the Statistics Department at UCLA for graduate school - a dream come true. Eight months separated my admission and actually starting the program, and it was a long eight months. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistician Magician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have finally started grad school! As soon as I started I already wanted to do research. But what has been tough is the going to class aspect. Two of the classes I am taking are required&#8230;well sort of. See, nothing is /required,/ but it is highly recommended that I take these classes so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/10/25/statistician-magician/</link>
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		<title>Our President is &#8220;Full of Hot Air&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day my best friend Dunc sent me this link to an article about George W. Bush. Apparently he and I have something in common - we both think farting is hilarious!
A top insider let that slip when explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about his behavior. But he&#8217;s still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/09/14/our-president-is-full-of-hot-air/</link>
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		<title>RIP: Nokia 770</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 770 has always had this weird problem where lines streak vertically across the screen, but it has been tolerable. Now that I want to use gpsDrive for plotting with my GPS, this will no longer work as the streaking is out of control. Some screenshots:
The This is what greets me on loading Xterm (command-line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/08/12/rip-nokia-770/</link>
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		<title>The Hezbollah Conflict and Aviation History: TWA Flight 847</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I am so burned out on hearing about the middle-East not being able to get along. Obviously we need to fight for those that died on 9/11, but besides that, I don&#8217;t know why we even get involved anymore. I wasn&#8217;t overly interested until I read about an incident with an American airliner that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/08/05/the-hezbollah-conflict-and-aviation-history-twa-flight-847/</link>
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		<title>My New Toys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My New Toys
A few months back I acquired a Nokia 770 from the UCLA Center for Embedded Network Sensing.

I also became a lot more interested in wireless Ethernet as well, and the concept of NetStumbling, or Wardriving. In short, Wardriving involves running some sort of daemon on a laptop or handheld device that records wireless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/08/05/my-new-toys-2/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Returned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I am using this new desktop blogging program called Zoundry to post to my blog now. I am hoping this will allow me to post more regularly because I am too lazy to navigate to my site and log in using my username and password. Perhaps I will write a review, but for now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/07/28/ive-returned/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Sweet Nothings&#8221;/February Entry</title>
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During the past month so much has happened I do not even know where to begin. It started off badly with my mom in the hospital with some sort of chest pain. Fortunately she is out now and feeling a whole lot better. Unfortunately, the doctors did not really do their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/03/08/sweet-nothingsfebruary-entry/</link>
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		<title>So Long Astoria</title>
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So here I sit at work. After completing my task for the week, I basically have nothing to do right now. Basically I had to run a couple of 1 and 2 parameter item parameter models using the ancient IRT software Bilog and Multilog. I spent the first week just trying to figure out how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/02/07/so-long-astoria/</link>
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		<title>My Mad Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those few readers that remember that way back when I used to have a section &#8220;Lyrics of the Week.&#8221; For now I am going to include them in my blog.



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Last Thursday night I actually went to a party…and even better, a Sunset Rec party. I got pretty drunk and I had a great time. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathguy.com/blog/2006/01/17/my-mad-season/</link>
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