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So, I bet this has never had to anybody else either. I just burned myself with a piece of bread . Turns out I have this habit of freezing bread rolls wrapped in aluminum foil. When I am hungry I take them out and stick them in the over - with the foil - for 10 min., and voila, warm bread that is like just-made.

Today I did it, and when I cut the roll open the interior was so hot that I burned myself with it. Smoke was coming out of the interior of my ciabatta roll

May go out in a bit, Kevin St. James probably. Kinda chilly out. I hope the weather is nice next week in Daytona. It wasn't too warm when I went last year.

And the week got started. I've been watching 24 this season, pretty good show.

Windy, and relatively cool.

Tensions rise in the Denmark-Iran conclict, we live in a dangerous world. Denmark says it holds Iran responsible after its Tehran embassy was attacked by hundreds of people protesting about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks came as Iran said it was cutting all trade ties with Denmark.

The anti-Danish protests have been repeated across the Muslim world, and have led to at least five deaths in Afghanistan and one in Somalia. Many Muslims are angry at the publishing of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish paper. As you may know, Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits images of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.

The cartoons published in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, and since reprinted in Norway and other European countries, included an image portraying Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

Doug poses a good question, which one of the software packages is better.

We you should probably also throw at least Maple into the mix. You can accomplish a lot of the same with any of them. I believe Matlab was originally designed for numerical computations involving large matrices. Prior to this one had to write or use a commercial Fortran subroutine to solve a linear system by Gaussian elimination. In Matlab this and other standard computations are built-in commands.

On the other hand Mathematica, like Maple, was designed with symbolic calculations foremost in mind. While it is certainly true that numerical computations can be done with Mathematica, this is typically not the driving force in choosing to use this program.