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		<title>Why is this so hard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["I understand my opponent disagrees with me, he doesn't want to give you a gas holiday, he doesn't want to go after the oil companies." - Hillary Clinton

I don't think it takes a very big economic expert - which I am not - to figure out that encouraging people to buy gas doesn't really hurt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROTFL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually enjoy the Daily Show (when it doesn't get too raunchy), but this week Jon Stewart had me literally rolling on the floor laughing for the first time, with his comments about the latest Democratic debate.

The first hour of last night’s debate was a 60 minute master class in questions that elevate out-of-context remarks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=377</link>
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		<title>Weird Idol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to my previous expectations, I'm getting into American Idol this season. I guess I just didn't expect to like the music, but I find I actually do in most cases. I've developed my favorites and non-favorites, and even voted a few times.

When they had Dolly Parton night last week, it got me thinking of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=376</link>
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		<title>Moving Time Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm in a situation which I suspect is not very unusual, and yet I've seen surprisingly little written about it: I've been using Time Machine for a while with a local drive, but I'm thinking of getting a Time Capsule so I need to find a way to transition from local to network backups.

At first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=375</link>
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		<title>So much for reinventing the wheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife has this seven-week dinner menu system all worked out, and she wanted something on her computer to manage it so she could do cool things like automatically generate a shopping list. At first we looked at doing it in Numbers, but it soon became apparent that this was not a job for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking at leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In last night's debate, Barack Obama talked about one way in which he plans to address the illegal immigration problem, and it's something I think is not discussed nearly often enough: working with Mexico to improve their economy. This is the only approach that actually addresses the root of the problem: people are so desperate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading (or rather, listening to) Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, the third book in His Dark Materials, the series that starts with The Golden Compass, which recently appeared in theaters. Critical response to that film was mixed (which was the reason I didn't get around to seeing it), but it mainly made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=372</link>
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		<title>A simple wiki</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I installed MediaWiki on my PowerBook for use as a personal journal and notebook. I chose MediaWiki because a) it was free and b) I thought the installation process would be educational. Well it was, but it wasn't enjoyable enough to make me want to do it again on my MacBook Pro.

So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=371</link>
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		<title>Belated Macworld keynote response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it's almost a week later, but since it's a holiday I finally have time to jot down some thoughts.

I may as well start with the biggie, the MacBook Air. I've seen a lot of pros and cons tossed around, and I think the only one that would be an obstacle for me is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://uncommonplace.com/blog/?p=370</link>
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		<title>No custom announcers for UT3?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was poking around in the innards of UT3 last night, in particular seeing how Warfare nodes are given names like "east road node" or "tank node". Part of this mechanism involves specifying the announcer sounds for the attack and defend directives. Then it hit me - in the shower this morning actually - that [...]]]></description>
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