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I think there are fewer humans reading my blog than automated robots. Was flipping around in my log files (AWStats is broken, I think), and found the following:

Technoratibot/0.6
BlogzIce/1.0 +http://www.icerocket.com/
Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc.
A2B Location-Based Search Engine (+http://www.a2b.cc)
PubSub.com RSS reader - http://www.pubsub.com/
everyfeed-spider/1.0 (http://www.everyfeed.com)
Blogdex/0.1 (+http://blogdex.net/about)
Waypath development crawler - info at waypath dot com
Syndic8/1.0 (http://www.syndic8.com/)
Blogslive (info@blogslive.com)
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Journster.com RSS/Atom aggregator [...]

Uhh…. Yeah. Apparently what I thought referred to the final exam mark was the actual final grade itself. I was working from a CSV file with poor headers… That’s my only excuse.
Recalculations, referring to overall final grades:

Mean: 69%
Median: 70%
Standard deviation: 20.3%
Min: 0% (ouch) followed by a 9% (also ouch)
Max: 100%
My rank: 80th percentile (brutal)

Freaking freaking. [...]

Herein I present a new philosophy of life: lazy evaluation. It’s something that doesn’t work for everyone, and if poorly implemented can result in disaster. Overall, a proper implementation can result in a dramatic increase in productive work-hours (or play-hours, as the case may be).

Just got out of my last exam. I estimated it would take me about 45 minutes to write, and it ended up taking 2 hours. Grrr… A problem I have is that I hate not being first out of any exam. As soon as anyone else leaves, or even if I’m just taking longer than [...]

There’s this bookstore in Regina that I like called the Book & Brier Patch. A few years ago their website was just this tiny flat-file HTML thing that had no discernable style and sucked. I decided to check up on them a few days ago, and lo and behold their website is a bloated, unbranded, [...]