Erik Novales

The hot and dry winds Cover my car in fine dust Washing is pointless

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The name reminds me of Fire Pro Wrestling, but Fire Joe Morgan is actually a site whose focus is tearing apart shoddy baseball writing and reporting. The authors are of the sabermetric school of baseball thought (that is, guided by objective statistical analysis), and bristle at constantly being stereotyped by the old guard as stats [...]

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I’ve been a bit remiss in not writing over the last week or so, so I’ll try to catch up on a few things. The Arsenal finished their home games with a pair against the Utah Flash and the Los Angeles D-Fenders, losing 107-101 to Utah but beating the D-Fenders 109-106 in a pretty thrilling [...]

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I won my Yahoo bracket handily, picking 46 out of 63 games correctly. I only had two mistakes in the regional finals, and from that point onwards, my picks were on the money. This is a nice change from last year, when I did much worse. I find it interesting that the highest scoring brackets [...]

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My recent experiences in setting up another server and site have served as a reminder that, on the net, it seems like nothing is secure by default. FTP sends your credentials over the wire in plain text. Telnet, of course, isn’t secure for the same reasons. Most ISP mail providers don’t use SSL or secure [...]

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