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Chipping the web – “Y “

February 23rd, 2007 12:41:09 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Chipping the webWhere Is Everybody? was the title of the pilot episode of the Twilight Zone, which debuted in October of 1959.

Tracy’s looking pretty good for 915 years old. At that age, I guess we can excuse her taking a month or so off from blogging recently.

Hone your skills for career longevity with Refuctoring (thanks, Assaf).

What’s in a name? (thanks, Steve)

May I please see your computing license? (thanks, Trivia Geek).

engtech offers a way to generate a tag cloud for a blog hosted on WordPress.com, where the inability to use plugins denies users the exquisite pleasures of my tag cloud widget.

Where is it literally(sic!) “hotter than hell”? Would you believe, in Heaven?

Thanks for the link, Scott Reynen!

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:D But how does “Y ” = 60?

 
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[...] “Y “: The character “Y” is sometimes used to represent the vertical marks made by a stylus in clay to form cuneiform characters. In the Babylonian sexagesimal number system, a single “Y” in the sixties place followed by an empty space in the ones place would indicate the number 60. [...]

 
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