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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Personal</title>
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		<title>The inauguration of Obama &#8211; you had to be there</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/01/21/the-inauguration-of-obama-you-had-to-be-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/01/21/the-inauguration-of-obama-you-had-to-be-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a long yet exhilarating day.  It started at around 7:00am when we woke up and boarded the Metro downtown to catch the inauguration.  We had purple tickets allowing us onto the Capitol grounds, but alas, the purple line was mishandled horribly, and we didn&#8217;t actually get in.  Frustration was running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tanks in rush hour</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/10/tanks-in-rush-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This makes twice in one year that my commute home from work has been slowed by rubbernecking delays thanks to tanks being in the pull-over lane just south of the American Legion Bridge crossing the Potomac River along the Capital Beltway in Virginia.
The tanks are always on semi-trailers traveling in convoys.  It&#8217;s been too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The guilty pleasures of Ikea</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/19/ikea-guilty-pleasure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/19/ikea-guilty-pleasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t help it.  Ikea is one of my guilty pleasures.  I don&#8217;t particularly like shopping, and I would never consider shopping a leisurely activity.  So while I do go to grocery stores and other places where I purchase essentials, I very rarely go to shopping just for the fun of it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today is a momentous day</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/05/today-is-a-momentous-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/05/today-is-a-momentous-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a momentous day.
I can finally truthfully say again that I am proud of my country.
It&#8217;s an incredible feeling.
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		<title>Introducing PC Game Fun Time, my new blog focused on PC gaming</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/20/introducing-pc-game-fun-time-my-new-blog-focused-on-pc-gaming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/20/introducing-pc-game-fun-time-my-new-blog-focused-on-pc-gaming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new blog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just started up a new blog with my current housemate and former college roommate, Grokmoo.  It&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve talked about doing for awhile but finally got around to.  The new blog is called PC Game Fun Time, and somewhat obviously, it&#8217;s focused on PC gaming.  Check out the introductory post for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the William Ayers &#8220;controversy&#8221; keeps failing to gain traction</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/12/william-ayers-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/12/william-ayers-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pardon my dumb-foundedness, but I just don&#8217;t understand why the McCain/Palin campaign and other Republicans keep on pushing the &#8220;he associates with former terrorist William Ayers&#8221; attack line against Barack Obama.  Okay, that&#8217;s not quite true; I understand why they&#8217;re pushing this line of attack &#8212; they&#8217;re out of any good ideas for America&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How quickly life paths diverge</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/19/how-quickly-life-paths-diverge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/19/how-quickly-life-paths-diverge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I went to the grocery store with my college friend and current roommate Grokmoo.  It was the same grocery store I used to go to with my parents every weekend over a decade ago when we lived in the area.  I hadn&#8217;t been back since until this weekend, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally back from a long week</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/01/finally-back-from-a-long-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally back from my ten-day &#8220;vacation&#8221;.  Although I did take vacation days from work to attend the Democratic National Convention, it didn&#8217;t really feel like a vacation.  Conventions are, by their very nature, thoroughly hectic.  At least the two days in Breckenridge and one day in Boulder helped me unwind a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical talent comes out to Colorado to support Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/25/dave-matthews-colorado/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/25/dave-matthews-colorado/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Sheryl Crow, Sugarland, and Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds in concert last night.  The venue was Red Rocks Ampitheatre, a gorgeous natural ampitheatre surrounded by red sandstone peaks on multiple sides with a beautiful view of nighttime Denver.  It was probably the best concert venue I&#8217;ve ever been to.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initial impressions of Denver</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/24/initial-impressions-of-denver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/24/initial-impressions-of-denver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my impressions of Denver so far, in no particular order (you may recall I&#8217;m here for the Democratic National Convention).
The teenagers here suck.  Talk about midwest suburban angst.  I&#8217;ve seen so many piercings, bad haircuts, and outright horrible emo-style outfits.  Columbine actually makes some sense to me now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to the Democratic National Convention</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/22/going-to-the-democratic-national-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting on a plane to Denver, Colorado in a couple of hours to attend the Democratic National Convention, so my blogging here might become rather sporadic over the next week or so depending on busy my schedule ends up being.  I&#8217;ll try to post photographs, at least.
]]></description>
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		<title>This is what a maxed out Verizon FIOS connection can do</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/17/this-is-what-a-maxed-out-verizon-fios-connection-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/17/this-is-what-a-maxed-out-verizon-fios-connection-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having moved into my current residence less than a week ago, the next logical thing to do was to test out our new blazingly fast 20 Mbps downstream/20 Mbps upstream Verizon FIOS connection to see if we were really getting what we paid for.  A simple online speed test reported numbers of 20.5 Mbps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The move is complete</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/13/the-move-is-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/13/the-move-is-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see, I graduated college a year and three months ago.  I initially looked for housing in the local area with one of my college buddies, but our plans fell through, and in August of last year, almost exactly a year ago, I moved back in with my parents.  Yeah, I know, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otakon 2008 impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/10/otakon-2008-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/10/otakon-2008-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after spending most of today decompressing from Otakon by mindlessly watching the Olympics, I&#8217;m ready to relate my impressions about the event, which I promised on Thursday.

Despite never having been to an anime convention, Otakon didn&#8217;t overwhelm me at all.  It was pretty much exactly like what I expected.  Going to Wizard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How beliefs linger after faith is gone: My tale as a kosher atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/07/kosher-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/07/kosher-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back over this blog, I&#8217;m realizing I really haven&#8217;t said too much about my religion (or rather, my lack thereof).  It&#8217;s something a lot of people are interested in; heck, some bloggers make an entire career out of it (cough PZ Myers cough).  So I figure I might as well take another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As overheard on the DC Metro</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/03/as-overheard-on-the-dc-metro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/03/as-overheard-on-the-dc-metro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday, I took the Metro into DC to attend a birthday party for one of my coworkers.  Sitting directly across from me was a group of three girls &#8212; they looked rather young, but I&#8217;ll be charitable and say they were eighteen.  They were definitely dressed up for a night on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned blog post ideas, part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/29/abandoned-blog-post-ideas-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/29/abandoned-blog-post-ideas-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my wildly successful blog post on abandoned blog ideas, part 1 (at least in terms of cleaning up my WordPress post drafts, anyway), I figure it&#8217;s time for part 2.  The idea is exactly the same: I&#8217;m going through my old WordPress drafts, many of which are nothing more than an idea stored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain is coming off the rails, ball bearings flying everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/28/mccain-attacks-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/28/mccain-attacks-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New McCain Ad Bashes Obama for Not Visiting Troops Using Footage of Obama Visiting Troops.
There&#8217;s not much I can really add to that.  If John McCain was running this campaign any more incompetently, he&#8217;d be better off handing the reins to a chimpanzee.  Maybe he already should.
The past few days have seen so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code commenting: one of the casualties of outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/21/code-commenting-one-of-the-casualties-of-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/21/code-commenting-one-of-the-casualties-of-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During college I worked as a computer programmer intern at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  I had the opportunity to work on all sorts of nifty cutting-edge physics simulations using some serious science.  Unfortunately, everything was written in VB 6, C++ .NET, or Fortran, but you can&#8217;t have it all, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s annual company meeting time</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/18/its-annual-company-meeting-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/18/its-annual-company-meeting-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My company is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an all-weekend annual meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia this weekend, so don&#8217;t expect any new blog posts for the duration.  And by all-weekend meeting what I really mean is an actual two-hour meeting surrounded on both ends by golfing, roller coasters at Busch Gardens, resort hotel activities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushing up against fame at the Good Stuff Eatery</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/15/good-stuff-eatery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/15/good-stuff-eatery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend on the night of my birthday (Woohoo, another year closer to death!), I joined in on an expedition to a new restaurant in Washington D.C., the Good Stuff Eatery.  The friend that I went with is a local food review blogger and pretty thoroughly covered the food, so I shall cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On growing old</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/12/on-growing-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/12/on-growing-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you think 23 is too young to make the transition from celebrating birthdays to resenting them as yet another precious year elapsed before death?
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		<title>What, a techie worry about inflation?  Never!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/27/technological-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/27/technological-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about my expenses over time, and not only am I now spending less in real terms (adjusted for inflation), I am now spending less in absolute terms (raw dollar amounts at the time of purchase).  Here are some examples.  I bought a 20&#8243; flat-screen display for my computer three and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most embarrassing moment of my life</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/25/most-embarrassing-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/25/most-embarrassing-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elementary school]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is with a surprisingly still-visceral sense of utter shame and vermilion embarrassment that I report one particularly memorable occurrence from childhood: the most embarrassing moment of my life.
I was in a &#8220;Gifted and Talented&#8221; program at Cold Spring Elementary School in Potomac, Maryland.  For one of our fourth grade field trips, we Magnet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why programmers make good editors</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/19/programmers-and-editing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/19/programmers-and-editing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago, whilst reading a post on a well-known blog (though I no longer remember which one), I noticed an unmatched parenthesis.  A long parenthetical aside, fully two paragraphs in length, was not terminated with a matching right parenthesis.  This is quite an easy mistake for most to make, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t ever be ashamed of your code</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/13/coding-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/13/coding-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ever ashamed of your code?  Don&#8217;t be!  Being ashamed of your code is harmful, as artfully explained by Ben Collins-Sussman.  It&#8217;s better to make your mistakes in the open where they can be quickly corrected than in private where they can fester for months, even years.  Note that we [...]]]></description>
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