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		<title>Waiting on the Kindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After seeing Ross Turk&#8217;s Kindle while I was in Belgium, I decided that I&#8217;d order one for myself &#8212; given the amount of travel that I do and the amount of time I have on airplanes to read, it&#8217;d be much nicer to have a decent eBook reader with me than to schlep dead tree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/04/05/waiting-on-the-kindle/</link>
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		<title>Avoid Fifth Third Bank at all costs&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without going into a great deal of detail, let me just say that if you&#8217;re looking for a bank for a checking or savings account, or if you have a choice of banks for an auto loan or other type of loan avoid Fifth Third Bank if at all humanly possible.
Long story short: I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/04/02/avoid-fifth-third-bank-at-all-costs/</link>
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		<title>What every American should know about the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some basics about religion and ethnic groups that most people in the U.S. probably don&#8217;t know.
For example, frighteningly few know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and most think the words “Arab” and “Muslim” are pretty much interchangeable. They aren’t. So here’s a very brief primer aimed at raising the level of knowledge about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/04/01/what-every-american-should-know-about-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Upgraded to 2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.5, test-driving the new hotness now. Please leave a comment if anything&#8217;s broken.
If the comments are broken, well&#8230; that&#8217;d be a problem, wouldn&#8217;t it?
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		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/03/31/upgraded-to-25/</link>
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		<title>Hello Florida!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back home after trips to BrainShare (Salt Lake City) and SDForum/OSBC (San Francisco, CA).
Tons of fun were had, some really good food (and some exceptionally bad food, but let&#8217;s not focus on the dreck served by the airlines&#8230;), interesting company, and the opportunity to meet and talk to a lot of people about openSUSE.
Good stuff, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/03/28/hello-florida/</link>
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		<title>Salt Lake City, here I come&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting set today to jet off to SLC for the big Novell conference of the year &#8212; BrainShare. It&#8217;s a biggie &#8212; five days, thousands of Novell employees, partners, customers, all jammed into the Salt Palace Convention Center. (I&#8217;ve been there before&#8230; not sure &#8220;palace&#8221; is quite fitting, but it is ginormous&#8230;)
I&#8217;ve covered BrainShare once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/03/14/salt-lake-city-here-i-come/</link>
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		<title>Why Google Docs won&#8217;t replace OpenOffice.org anytime soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I used Google Docs with a colleague to hash out a project, and I was really digging Google Docs at the time &#8212; thinking &#8220;man, this totally blows fat client software away,&#8221; because we could both update the document, and chat in the sidebar about changes&#8230; it was really useful.
Today, I&#8217;m trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/03/09/why-google-docs-wont-replace-openofficeorg-anytime-soon/</link>
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		<title>Back from Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just spent about eight days in Germany and Belgium. First time I&#8217;ve ever been to Europe, and it was very interesting &#8212; unfortunately it was also for work, so the actual amount of time I spent &#8220;visiting&#8221; Germany and Belgium was minimal. (Though AJ was nice enough to play tour guide Thursday night before I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/02/29/back-from-europe/</link>
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		<title>Never. Ever. Ever. Mmmkay?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, quick note to all developers who work with Web browsers (I&#8217;m looking at you, Firefox folks!) and window managers &#8212; The window I am typing in is the Window I want to see &#8212; nothing, absolutely NOTHING that happens in another window, tab, or program is important enough to steal window manager focus from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/02/19/never-ever-ever-mmmkay/</link>
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		<title>New job!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things about being a journalist &#8212; you get used to keeping things under your hat until embargo dates are lifted, or keeping your mouth shut altogether when someone gives you info &#8220;off the record&#8221; &#8212; and I&#8217;ve usually found it easy to keep things close to the vest when it&#8217;s part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/02/04/new-job/</link>
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