We hiked up Cataract Creek (we meant to go up Zephyr Creek but we got confused) in Kananaskis Country today and it was spectacular.



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Introduction

A trie (pronounce "try") is a tree-based data structure in order to support
fast pattern matching. The "trie" comes from the word "retrieval".

This structure is particularly useful for any application requiring prefix
based (read "starts with") pattern matching.

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This book was a very good read but also an eye opener.

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I just bought myself a new budget server and was having no end of grief trying to straighten out the integrated video on the el-cheapo-grande motherboard (Asus K8S-MX).

After hours of poking, prodding, loading and unloading and copious amounts of cussing I finally called upon a friend of mine who knows a lot more about computers that I ever will.

He gave me a few pointers and within fifteen minutes I had all my issues resolved.

If you're having PC trouble save yourself the time and aggravation and look Tom up at http://www.savethepc.com/.

This is a true story and not a cheap promotional effort.

Well I don't get to win that often but I finally did win something that doesn't depend on pure dumb luck (or at least I like to think so). WOXY.com (www.woxy.com) ran a "So you wanna be a DJ" contest and I submited a playlist.

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