tmarthal will be televised

The first order of business is to transpose the contents of my previous blog, located on the USC student web servers here http://www-scf.usc.edu/~marthale/index.html to this blogger.com service. Hopefully I can fiddle with the css formatting to make it somewhat match my old blog.

It was too much of a hassle dealing with the Information Services Division at USC to try and post dynamic html content on thier servers.

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