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		<title>The Last Airbender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm calling this a victory for hand-drawn animation. The Last Airbender is a 3D, live action film that pales in comparison to its cartoon counterpart. The original show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, is an excellent show. It shows depth, originality, and a fantastic blend of humor, action, and serious drama. In all of these aspects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=406</link>
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		<title>Budget Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I've mentioned previously on my blog, I'm now working on a personal budget application titled Budget Machine. This one is open source, and hosted on GitHub so you can see the work in progress.

A quick overview of the features and goals:
The focus is on tracking expenses and budgets. Most other personal finance apps focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=405</link>
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		<title>Iron Man 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most of the reviews said, and as I expected going in, Iron Man 2 was good overall, even if it wasn't quite as good as the first film. It picked up literally where Iron Man left off, and I think it did a good job of continuing the established tone and characters. I also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=404</link>
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		<title>Kicking the farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed FarmVille for a while. It was fun to build up the farm, and interact, after a fashion, with old friends I don't otherwise get to see much.

While many people took the power-leveling approach to FarmVille, adding "friends" indiscriminately and growing just the right crops for maximum experience points, I decided the purpose of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=403</link>
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		<title>The Lightning Thief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had been looking forward to this movie for a while. Then the reviews started coming out, and they weren't all that positive. OK, I'll just lower my expectations and maybe I can still enjoy it. But no, it turns out it really isn't a very good movie.

Déjà vu. I wrote something very similar to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=402</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going on, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just looked back and found that it's been five years since I last did a year-end blog post. That's mainly because my life has shifted away from the things I set this site up for.

Shareware - People still occasionally send in payments for Icon Machine, which I appreciate. A few other projects have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=401</link>
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		<title>The Book of Mormon is true</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=400</link>
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		<title>Means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a post that doesn't have a turquoise title bar. In the early days of this blog, they were more the exception than the rule.

I've undertaken a new software project, intended to replace the Numbers spreadsheet Lisa and I have been using to track our expenses. I'm calling it "Means". Edit: It was later renamed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=399</link>
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		<title>Lego lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was watching General Conference, I kept noticing one of my birthday presents on display on the shelf over the TV: the LEGO Creator "Cool Convertible" set, currently assembled as a convertible, though it also comes with instructions to make a truck and a mini loader.

The thing about LEGO sets is that at first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=398</link>
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		<title>Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This post is a little belated… it's a little harder these days to find time for blogging.)

Compared to my last week-long trip - to Disney World - my trip to Italy involved about as much walking, and even more Pinocchio. It was also hotter. I don't recommend Italy in August.

This trip was a first for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=397</link>
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