Archive for November, 2007

Testing — or not testing — for steroids: 101

Rob November 18th, 2007

A Salt Lake Tribune investigation found vast inconsistencies, curious practices and uncertain accountability in the way the nation’s major schools at administer their programs. Oklahoma, Idaho, Texas, Iowa, Tennessee and East Carolina reported having caught an athlete using steroids in the past three years. Continue Reading »

ASCII PORN

Rob November 1st, 2007

ASCII

I got your attention with the word porn in the heading but now you are going to learn something. ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” and is a computer term from way back in the day, the 1960s. It defined how computers displayed a common set of characters on the screen and contained 95 different characters.

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