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		<title>Reminiscing about the naïve, spam-free days of the web</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/07/21/before-spambots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/07/21/before-spambots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember a long time ago when the web was free of spam? I&#8217;m not talking about email, which has had spam problems for awhile, I&#8217;m talking about the web. Nowadays, the web is festering with link-crawling spambots. Anyone with a blog, Twitter account, or heck, even a webpage with a simple submit form with some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why I use Identi.ca and you should too</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/22/why-i-use-identica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/22/why-i-use-identica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microblogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you following me on Twitter may have noticed that all of my tweets come from Identica. I started off with Twitter but I quickly switched over to Identica as soon as I learned about it. Identica, if you haven&#8217;t heard of it before, uses the same micro-blogging concept as Twitter (and in fact [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia blocks my page from their Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/18/australia-blocks-my-page-from-their-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/18/australia-blocks-my-page-from-their-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikipedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blacklist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filtering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nudity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[porn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, when I was more active on Wikipedia than I am now, I was trying to prove a point by compiling a list of all of the risque images on Wikipedia (link obviously NSFW). I don&#8217;t quite remember what that point is anymore, but the list remains. It has even survived a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Python script to auto-follow all Twitter followers</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/10/a-python-script-to-auto-follow-all-twitter-followers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/03/10/a-python-script-to-auto-follow-all-twitter-followers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto-follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my recent fiddling around with Twitter I came across the Twitter API, which is surprisingly feature-complete. Since programming is one of my hobbies (as well as my occupation), I inevitably started fooling around with it and have already come up with something useful. I&#8217;m posting it here, so if you need to do the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>I caught the Twitter bug</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/24/i-caught-the-twitter-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/24/i-caught-the-twitter-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. A lot of other people at work were using Twitter, so now I am too. If I join anything else, I&#8217;ll need to think of a good way to organize all of my web presences. I guess this blog can be the mothership, and contain links to everything else. So far I seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Firefox continues gaining market share, software flaws</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/03/firefox-continues-gaining-market-share-software-flaws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/03/firefox-continues-gaining-market-share-software-flaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market share]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web browser]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excellent news! My favorite web browser, Mozilla Firefox, has gained market share yet again and now commands 21.53% of the market. That&#8217;s a far cry from several years ago when Firefox was just coming out and Internet Explorer was by far the dominant browser. I still remember all of those sites that only worked in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How browser security exploits hinder exploration of the web</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/22/how-browser-security-exploits-hinder-exploration-of-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/22/how-browser-security-exploits-hinder-exploration-of-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browsing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to be able to feel safe while browsing the web, both in terms of what your software protects you against and what your own &#8220;web street smarts&#8221; protect you against. Users who don&#8217;t feel safe will restrict themselves to big sites by recognizable companies and other sites that they already visit regularly &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fixing ordering bias of U.S. presidential election candidates on Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/03/potus-election-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/03/potus-election-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President of the United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikipedia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, upon getting home from work, one of the first things I did was check the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. It always has interesting content on there, and today was no exception. For the first time ever, two articles were featured on the front page: those of John McCain and Barack Obama. Except [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to prevent Firefox from lagging badly when dragging selected text</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/28/fix-firefox-selection-lag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/28/fix-firefox-selection-lag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all_generic_ide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drag-and-drop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nglayout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10. The upgrade was pretty smooth, with nothing much to report except that my system now boots without requiring the all_generic_ide kernel parameter, which is nice. One problem that I immediately started seeing, however, was that my system would freeze up terribly whenever [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Web comics authors: Please stop using HTML image attributes</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/20/web-comics-authors-please-stop-using-html-image-attributes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/20/web-comics-authors-please-stop-using-html-image-attributes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alt attribute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alt tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image attribute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Munroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[title attribute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[title tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web comic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XKCD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like XKCD. Everyone that I know who&#8217;s heard of XKCD likes it as well. But there&#8217;s one little annoying thing its author, Randall Munroe, does that I wish he would stop: putting additional commentary about the strip into HTML meta attributes on the image of the comic. Specifically, I&#8217;m referring to the title attribute, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tab overload</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/16/tab-overload/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/16/tab-overload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tab overload]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to find out that Firefox is using a gigabyte of RAM at any one time. Sure, that may seem like a lot, but I have a full 4 GB of RAM to work with, and Firefox is the most intensive thing I regularly use this computer for, so it works [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teen runaway McKenzie Church gets a bit more than she bargained for</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/mckenzie-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/mckenzie-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cute teen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Famous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenzie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McKenzie Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing white girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing white girl syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[runaway teen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know the typical teen runaway story: parents try to discipline their kid over a poorly thought-out relationship, who then thinks they&#8217;re the worst people in the world and decides to run away with their lover. Usually it only lasts a couple of days until the kids realize they&#8217;re completely not prepared to strike out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>I think Verizon hates me</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/i-think-verizon-hates-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/i-think-verizon-hates-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BitTorrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verizon FIOS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Verizon hates me. Here&#8217;s proof hate isn&#8217;t too strong of a word: Ever since we got Verizon FIOS, I&#8217;ve been using it to the maximum because, why not?, we&#8217;re paying for it. BitTorrent is definitely the best way to fully utilize a connection. In the screenshot above, note the total of 293.41 GB [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Web nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/14/web-nostalgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/14/web-nostalgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hamster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hamster dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web nostalgia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If this does not bring back nostalgic memories, then you, sir, have not been on the interweb nearly long enough.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BitTorrent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downstream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speed test]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upstream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category>

		<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 and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>This Mozilla/Ogg thing could end up being really important</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/04/mozilla-and-ogg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/04/mozilla-and-ogg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[codec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinuxInsider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MPEG-LA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogg Theora]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just starting to sink in for me how important the recent inclusion of the Free Software Ogg codecs in Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will turn out to be, especially concerning the Ogg Theora video codec. This will be the first chance for a non-proprietary video codec to really break into the mainstream. Combine Firefox&#8217;s now-native [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Firefox gets Ogg  support</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/30/firefox-gets-ogg-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/30/firefox-gets-ogg-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[codec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free software]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ogg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogg Theora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogg Vorbis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news, Free Software fans! As of last night, out-of-the-box support for the Ogg Theora (video) and Ogg Vorbis (audio) open format codecs was enabled on the mainline Firefox development branch. Here&#8217;s the exact diff. These two codecs work in conjunction with the new &#60;video&#62; and &#60;audio&#62; tags, which will be supported in the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress continues delivers cutting edge features</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-release/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[below the fold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlogSpot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revision control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stylesheet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress.com]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been critical of WordPress in the past, but the new release of WordPress 2.6 allows me to pause and give thanks for all the amazing features that WordPress offers. Earlier tonight I was helping a friend with her Blogger.com blog, and the difference between that and WordPress is night and day. For [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The biggest threat to the Internet since EMPs</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/18/metered-internet-access/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/18/metered-internet-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unlimited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m angrier than a bull in a Communist china shop over a recent trend amongst ISPs towards metered payment schemes (use BugMeNot for access). I wouldn&#8217;t mind so much if they were charging market rates, which would be between 5 and 10 cents a gigabyte, but instead they&#8217;re going for outright extortion and charging one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Verizon takes the next step in killing Usenet</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/verizon-killing-usenet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/verizon-killing-usenet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alt hierarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newsgroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scare tactic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talk.origins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usenet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel obligated to report on this story because many people of my Internet generation don&#8217;t know about the rich history of Usenet, and thus will not appreciate what is being lost. Usenet is the original Internet discussion system. It&#8217;s been around a lot longer than the World Wide Web. Prior to 1992, there was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Your mission: Download Firefox 3</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/your-mission-download-firefox-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/your-mission-download-firefox-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to download and install Firefox 3. It was just released today and it&#8217;s awesome. I can say that with some certainty because I&#8217;ve been using and marveling at the version 3 Release Candidate for a week and a half now. One of Firefox 3&#8242;s new features, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coding in secret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[makeSite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>

		<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 aren&#8217;t necessarily talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>WordPress vulnerability in the wild</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/09/wordpress-vulnerability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/09/wordpress-vulnerability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anyresults.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vulnerability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five days ago, I noticed that the number of hits coming to this blog decreased drastically. Specifically, the WordPress.com Stats plugin showed that my incoming hits from search engines had decreased to nearly zero. And since Google is this blog&#8217;s front page, that represented a rather drastic drop in traffic. I was down to just [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A fun way to get better at typing</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/01/type-racer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/01/type-racer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learn typing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[touch typing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TypeRacer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words per minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wpm]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By recommendation from my friend Grokmoo, allow me to introduce you to TypeRacer. The site uses the basic &#8220;type the given passage without any errors and we&#8217;ll calculate your words per minute metric&#8221; mechanic, with a twist: each passage you type is in a race against other users to see who is fastest. This makes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>One helluva ad for Seagate</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/06/one-helluva-ad-for-seagate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/06/one-helluva-ad-for-seagate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seagate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space shuttle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one helluva ad for Seagate. What you are looking at is a 400 MB Seagate hard drive that survived the Space Shuttle Columbia&#8217;s break-up upon re-entry. Not only that, the data, which was for a microgravity xenon shear thinning experiment, was recovered and has yielded an important scientific research paper. If I was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another reason Tor isn&#8217;t just for criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/another-reason-tor-isnt-just-for-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/another-reason-tor-isnt-just-for-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous browsing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SWAT raid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/another-reason-tor-isnt-just-for-criminals/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tor (The Onion Router) is an incredibly useful large scale automatic proxy network that is mainly used for anonymous web browsing. Tor has taken a lot of heat from critics alleging that it facilitates criminal activities and that no one who isn&#8217;t doing anything illegal has any valid need for it (boy, does that argument [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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