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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Computers</title>
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		<title>Identity Crises</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/identity-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 10:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: 'A Little Family History,' by B. Kliban] From whiskey river: Moment A person wakes from sleep and does not know for a time who she is, who he is. This happens in a lifetime once or twice. It has happened to you, no doubt. Some in that moment panic, some sigh with pleasure. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (EDT Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/real-life-dialogue-edt-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene: a suburban home situated somewhere in the (US) Eastern time zone. It is a mild, sunny Sunday afternoon in mid-March, and He and She are seated at their respective computers on opposite sides of a low wall, enjoying the sunshine when they remember to look out a window.] She: [From her side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncomfortable Numbers</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/uncomfortable-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: A Word on Statistics Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the rest. Ready to help, if it doesn&#8217;t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four &#8212; well, maybe five. Able to admire without envy: eighteen. Led to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things Programmers Think (and Sometimes Say)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/things-programmers-think-and-sometimes-say/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/things-programmers-think-and-sometimes-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux/Ubuntu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karmic Koala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my day job, I have a couple of stock responses to questions from clients or just to my (and their) experiences with computers. One of these stock responses is something which clients almost never like to hear, because it translates, roughly, to This may sound like a &#8220;yes,&#8221; but if you believe that you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashing Your Thumb with Your Trusty Hammer</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/smashing-your-thumb-with-your-trusty-hammer/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/smashing-your-thumb-with-your-trusty-hammer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Technology alert: If you're not into PC tech, especially wonky stuff about operating systems and such, you might want to give this post a pass.] As some of you may know, I almost never use Microsoft Windows anymore &#8212; at least, when at home. (At work, there&#8217;s no other option.) Until a couple days ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forward Bravely, into the Past!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/forward-bravely-into-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/forward-bravely-into-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=2845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This March &#8212; the 12th, and isn&#8217;t it interesting I remember the exact date? &#8212; marks my 30th year as a computer guy. When I started out at AT&#38;T, my job title was Member of Programming Staff (with a digression into Managerhood); at my present job, I&#8217;ve been a Distributed Systems Specialist, a Business Systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smile After Smile</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/smile-after-smile/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/smile-after-smile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=2563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say old habits die hard, and I guess it&#8217;s true. But traditions are a sort of shared old habit, and traditions don&#8217;t die hard at all &#8212; although they don&#8217;t flat-out die, either. Traditions evolve. People come and go. What&#8217;s possible replaces what you could never do, and what you used to do all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cramming Technologies into an Elevator</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/08/cramming-technologies-into-an-elevator/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/08/cramming-technologies-into-an-elevator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother the architect once explained to me the key to building things successfully. By building he meant not just framing, erecting walls and roofs and so on, but everything: flooring, painting, pouring foundations, and so on. All of it, he said, had one critical element: edges. How an architect or builder or home handyman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloghopping: Haven Kimmel on &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/08/bloghopping-haven-kimmel-on-the-sopranos/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/08/bloghopping-haven-kimmel-on-the-sopranos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes using the Web loses all its charm, because you&#8217;re too focused on problem-solving. You need the answer to a question, say, about some damn thing or other that&#8217;s locking your computer up, and you don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s Linux, or a video driver, or that cheese Danish which inadvertently fell from your mouth (of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Bibliophiliac Detritus</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/07/more-bibliophiliac-detritus/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/07/more-bibliophiliac-detritus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post a few days ago, I talked about BookRabbit.com &#8212; a (fairly new) site which lets readers share the titles of books they own, in hopes of discovering other books they might be interested in. The clever mechanism which BookRabbit have come up with for communicating this information is bookshelf photographs: take a [...]]]></description>
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