Natural Blogarithms

This post is simply a test of the LaTEX plugin that I supposedly have installed on this blog.  I haven’t used it in conjunction with Windows Live Writer Beta, my preferred blog writing software.
Feel free to sing along to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel” as you read the quadratic formula below:

Speaking of which, [...]

In my math models course this term, my students have begun working on their projects.  They will complete 3 – 4 modeling projects throughout the semester.  We just completed work on a Highway Design Problem with some basic curve fitting techniques to join two or three different grades (slopes) of road sections using parabolic [...]

This is a trick in Excel that will definitely come in handy.  I imagine a good many power users of Excel are familiar with this, but as it was new to me and pretty darn cool, I thought I’d share.
Situation: Working along in a spreadsheet and you have the format all set just they way [...]

The HTC8125 (Wizard) brought another adventure (see previous adventure).  This time around the cradle that we use for charging managed to break off a piece inside the headphone jack.  This cradle is also a speaker so in addition to a charging plug, there is also a headphone plug that inserts into the phone.  Unfortunately, Lori [...]

As I was preparing revisions to my University Life course schedule, I opened up Word 2007 and noticed something that I had not noticed before. When I was opening a new document there was an option to do a blog post. While I know that Microsoft has developed software for posting to various [...]