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From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 29 August 1941, pg. 14, col. 5:
_Shooting the Breeze_
by Joseph Driscoll
(…) But when the men of the U. S. N. have time to relax, they relax in a great big way. What is their favorite relaxation? Strange as it may seem to landlubbers, your naval man would pass up wine, women or song any time if only he be permitted to shoot the breeze.
Shooting the breeze is yarn spinning, only I never heard it called the latter on shipboard. When sailor-folk shoot the breeze they are not conscious of retailing fiction.
(Long article–ed.)

Overall I’m finding the beta 2 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser to be quite good. There are one or two flaws though that I’ve noticed particularly in it’s handling of CSS.
However, the yahoo mail beta doesn’t support it. It provides a

Sorry, Yahoo! Mail Beta does not support your browser

but helpfully advises me to try Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher with a link that takes me to the IE download page. From a brief examination of requests IE7b2 is throwing at our webserver Looks like Yahoo failed to psychically read MS’s intentions and got the HTTP_USER_AGENT test wrong. Hope someone tells them!

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

OK, there’s a coffee drinking german in the 4th house who keeps fish as pets. Lucky the cats are in the first house, a safe distance away. The really funny thing about this particular puzzle is how similiar to sudoku it really is. For anyone living in siberia for the last few months Sudoku is really addictive. You start with small easy games and move on up to medium, hard & mind-numbing. Richard Rodgers had quite a few fascinating posts on solving it using a procedural approach. Generally, I prefer a declarative approach and prolog is definitely my language of choice. However, if anyone can come up with a tasty way to solve it using neural nets I’d love to see it.