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		<title>July 4, woohoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 4, which means holiday!  (Well, not in Britain; they&#8217;re still kind of resentful over the whole thing.)  So I will be celebrating by going to the beach, where there will be no computers.  See y&#8217;all again on Monday.
If you can&#8217;t think of anything to do over this holiday weekend, go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/04/july-4-woohoo/</link>
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		<title>A better solution to the FizzBuzz interview problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many months ago, I wrote about a simple programming problem that I was administering to interviewees at work to assess their programming skills.  The basic problem is this: loop through a range of integers, outputting different strings depending on whether each integer is divisible by one given number, by another given number, by both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/02/better-fizzbuzz-solution/</link>
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		<title>Regretting recommending American Gladiators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize to anyone who took my recommendation of that abysmal show &#8220;American Gladiators&#8221; seriously and actually started watching it.  It seems like everyone at my work (including me) reached the unanimous conclusion that that show was lame and not worth further watching within a couple of episodes of me writing that post.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/02/regretting-recommending-american-gladiators/</link>
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		<title>Field Day 2008, wherein even a near-miss with a collapsing antenna can&#8217;t spoil the fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday this past weekend I did so many ham radio activities I had to split them across two blog posts.  Yesterday I wrote about the 17 foot antenna I installed on top of my house.  Today, I&#8217;ll regale you with tales from Field Day 2008.
Field Day is an annual 24-hour North American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/01/field-day-2008/</link>
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		<title>Taking amateur radio to the next level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was pretty awesome.  Saturday was jam-packed with ham radio activities, from morning until midnight (and beyond).  That&#8217;s right, an entire day of ham radio!  I started off by installing the 17-foot antenna I bought awhile back on top of our house.  That took a good four to five hours, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/30/installed-antenna/</link>
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		<title>Wherein my computer joins a Stand Alone Complex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Drinian was in Akihabara, Japan and he happened to pick up some Laughing Man stickers.  He didn&#8217;t end up using most of them though, and he figured I would get more enjoyment of them than he would, so he gave them to me.  I highly suspect that he was correct, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/29/dell-stand-alone-complex/</link>
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		<title>Death in the digital age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My great-aunt died over three months ago, yet a week hasn&#8217;t gone by yet where we haven&#8217;t gotten some piece of mail addressed to her.  How does death work in the digital age, anyway?  Are you not truly gone until you are expunged from that one last database, after that final robotically-processed letter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/28/death-in-the-digital-age/</link>
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		<title>What, a techie worry about inflation?  Never!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/27/technological-inflation/</link>
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		<title>Dungeons &#038; Dragons 4th Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Dungeons &#038; Dragons 4th Edition has been out for a little while now.  Has anyone here gotten a chance to play it yet?  If so, what&#8217;d you think about it?
I&#8217;ve never actually played D&#038;D in person.  It makes me feel like I&#8217;m missing out on an essential part of my geek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/26/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition/</link>
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		<title>How to fix images not displaying in Microsoft Word 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been hit by a bug (or what I thought was a bug) in Microsoft Word 2007: images embedded in the document did not display in any mode other than &#8220;Full Screen Reading&#8221;.  And since the editing ribbons are not available in that mode, it&#8217;s hard to get work done.  This all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/26/how-to-fix-images-not-displaying-in-microsoft-word-2007/</link>
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		<title>In search of stream-based desktop metaphors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across an excellent article comparing two competing desktop worldviews, documents and streams.  The author argues that everything in our desktop environments is set up to support a document-based metaphor, when actually what is more relevant to the majority of our work these days is streams.  He makes a very persuasive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/26/in-search-of-stream-based-desktop-metaphors/</link>
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		<title>The most embarrassing moment of my life</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/25/most-embarrassing-moment/</link>
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		<title>How to learn Morse code in GNU/Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking &#8212; as if GNU/Linux and ham radio couldn&#8217;t possibly be nerdy enough when separate, let&#8217;s put them together!  But let&#8217;s take a step back &#8230;
I started getting involved with ham radio just three months ago with VHF/UHF voice FM, and already I&#8217;m hungering for more.  I don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/23/learn-morse-code-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Obama opens up 15 point lead over McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hell yeah!  Obama has opened up a 15 point lead over McCain.  And hopefully, the lead will only grow larger over time.  After eight disastrous years under George W. Bush, and now one candidate who represents a continuation of those policies versus one who does not, it&#8217;s pretty obvious what the American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/22/obama-leads-mccain/</link>
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		<title>Minor hardware upgrade news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just gotten a new computer a scant two weeks ago, I&#8217;ve all ready failed at resisting the urge to start pimping it out.  I should point out the whole point of this endeavor was to make a cheap computer.  Well, today I added another 2 GB of RAM (at a cost of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/21/minor-hardware-upgrade-news/</link>
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		<title>Antenna preparations for ARRL Field Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve discussed non-computer-related construction projects on this blog, so to break the drought, here are some details on a shortly upcoming antenna project.

The Amateur Radio Relay League&#8217;s annual Field Day is coming up next weekend.  Field Day is the largest weekend of the year for amateur radio operators.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/20/putting-up-antenna/</link>
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		<title>Why programmers make good editors</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/19/programmers-and-editing/</link>
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		<title>The biggest threat to the Internet since EMPs</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/18/metered-internet-access/</link>
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		<title>The best Nerf war I have ever seen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so usually I don&#8217;t ever do posts that consist solely of an embedded YouTube video, but this one you have to see.  Check below the fold.


Absolutely amazing, isn&#8217;t it?  God, I wish that office was my office.
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		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/nerf-office-war/</link>
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		<title>Verizon takes the next step in killing Usenet</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/verizon-killing-usenet/</link>
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		<title>Your mission: Download Firefox 3</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/17/your-mission-download-firefox-3/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Ghost Brigades&#8221; shows clear signs of Scalzi&#8217;s improvement as an author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently read Old Man&#8217;s War, it&#8217;s not surprising that I&#8217;ve just finished reading its sequel The Ghost Brigades.  I liked Old Man&#8217;s War, but I found some significant flaws in it that hampered my enjoyment.  Thankfully, most of those flaws were fixed in the sequel.  The alien races aren&#8217;t nearly as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-ghost-brigades/</link>
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		<title>64-bit GNU/Linux is totally ready for mainstream use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was installing Ubuntu GNU/Linux with KDE on my latest desktop purchase, I faced a seemingly agonizing decision between 32-bit and 64-bit.  There are all sorts of peripheral arguments over performance, but the main arguments on each side are that 32-bit can only support 4 GB of RAM (not technically true) and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/16/64-bit-gnulinux/</link>
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		<title>Why Dianetics is better than the Bible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am hardly a fan of Scientology, yet I find some humor in the fact that Scientology&#8217;s &#8220;holy book&#8221;, Dianetics, is better than the Bible in nearly every way.  Here is my reasoning.
First of all, Dianetics is much more self-consistent than the Bible.  One need only to examine a brief list of contradictions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/15/dianetics-vs-bible/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t ever be ashamed of your code</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/13/coding-shame/</link>
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		<title>Bringing a Windows mindset to a GNU/Linux world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across a level of stupid so off the charts I had to immediately comment on it here lest my inaction unwittingly foster an environment tolerant of such stupidity.  Allow me to quote from a post on Linuxforums:
When I say cd&#8217;d I mean I used the command cd, to change directory.
So for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/12/always-sudo/</link>
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