Chipping the web – Eboracum
March 23rd, 2007 5:18:57 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
In the Hebrew numbering system, the number 70 is represented by the Hebrew letter ayin, whose name means “eye“.
Kiltak gives us his four keys to the blogging cashbox.
Jeff Atwood’s top 6 list of top 10 lists for programmers. Why wasn’t this written in S-expressions?
My second guest post at SOB, wherein I give COPA a big L8R – NOT! John Murrell voices similar sentiments.
Seems like guest blogging may be a new trend.
Hey, it looks like Greg Laden has taken my advice and started providing full-text feeds! Way to go, Greg! You’ve got a great blog, and now I’ll enjoy reading it even more.
Joseph has me in his Blogroll, and I don’t think I ever acknowledged that. Thanks, Joseph!
Alyx blogrolled my “Jazz writing” post. Thanks, Alyx, I’ve been enjoying your blog lately, too.
BTW, if you have included me in your blogroll, or if you link to me, and I fail to mention it here, please leave me a comment with a link to your site. Normally, I pick these up through my referrer logs, but if nobody clicks on the link it will never get there. Link-love is one of those things of which you only have more the more you give away, so please let me know.
Speaking of referrer logs, I got linked from blogshares.com, a “fantasy blog stock market” (from the “too much time on their hands” department? what, haven’t they heard about Twitter?) where shares of “Chip’s Quips” are currently selling for $611.06. That’s up from $6.65 on March 8, so I am either the Google of this fantasy market or I’m just on a bubble. Guido is the sole shareholder so far with 3000 shares purchased yesterday. Good luck, Guido!
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Oleg Somin uses my tag cloud widget on Somin.ru, a Russian blog. Spasebo, Oleg!
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So have you come to the conclusion 70 can also mean complete in Hebrew?
The number 7 was often used to mean completeness, so 70 gives completeness in a larger degree. I don’t believe that Biblical numbers were intended to be accurate. They are more qualitative than quantitative.
how true, some biblical numbers are meant to bwe accurate
but 7 and 70 are not, which is why the
70 year babylonian captivity
was alot shorter.
You’re right, it was actually less than 50 years.