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The Rensselaer Men's Hockey Team has played four games since our last report on RCNJ. On the weekend of December 3-4, RPI tied Brown 3-3 in Providence after losing a three-goal lead. This was followed on Saturday night with a 2-1 loss to Harvard, dropping Rensselaer into 10th place in the ECAC Hockey League.

The Engineers bounced back to break out of a number of negative streaks in a non-league game against Providence at Houston Fieldhouse on Wednesday, December 8. The 4-3 victory was the RPI's first one-goal win since late last season (March 6, 2004 against Princeton). RPI also broke a three-game winless streak by beating the Friars.

Rensselaer ended its December schedule with a 4-1 home loss to 14th-ranked Boston University on Saturday. Goaltender Jordan Alford, who has been playing a lot recently, was unavailable due to illness, as was defenseman Scott Romfro.

The men's hockey team's is back on the ice for two non-conference games on January 1 and 2 at Notre Dame.

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Dave Aiello '89 launched a new website called Weblog Improvement for his company CTDATA. The Weblog Improvement site is designed to attract customers who are looking for assistance building or enhancing websites based on the Movable Type web publishing system. Movable Type is the most popular web publishing tool for building weblogs, websites that contain articles listed in reverse chronological order.

The idea for Weblog Improvement came from the Ed Anuff '90, Dave's friend from college who co-founded Epicentric and recently worked at Vignette Corporation. He suggested offering Movable Type consulting services, building on the success of Operation Gadget, a Movable Type site that Dave built and currently blogs himself. Operation Gadget recently celebrated its first anniversary and has now has between 100,000 and 150,000 unique readers per month.

"There's no question that Operation Gadget is in the top 1 percent of weblogs in terms of traffic", Dave said. "I'm hoping to be able to help other serious webloggers increase their readerships and generate higher cash flows using some of the techniques I've learned by blogging for a year. There's room for more top tier weblogs and I'd like to help other people join the club."

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