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Ahenobarbus Wrote: Jan 06, 2010 8:12 PM

"...In it we frequently begin numbering with zero ..."

This was supposed to be "In I.T. (Information Technology) we frequently begin numbering with zero." Apparently some automatic "correcting" is done to posts when they are uploaded. It removed my capitalization.

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Let's Give it a Rest

Reader Alert: This was the column I was going to write before the Tighty-Whitey-Bomber messed up everyone's holiday week. If you're looking for blood-boiling rhetoric, this edition of MULLINGS isn't going to be it.

Back to blood-boiling rhetoric on Friday. Maybe.

I have been thinking about scales. Time scales, temperature scales, even metaphysical scales.

We are now in the year 2010. I don't want to revisit the argument which states that, because there was no year zero, this is not the first year of the second decade of the 21st century.