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	<title>Just as I had suspected &#187; rob</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with making money from advertising?</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/08/04/whats-wrong-with-making-money-from-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Any hardcore developer must be dying to work at Google, Twitter, or Facebook, right? Well, no; see this post by Dave Copeland, &#8220;Why I&#8217;d never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook&#8221;. I generally agree with his points; if your core business (where the money comes from) is advertising, your customers are the businesses who pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My music doesn&#8217;t come in &#8220;genres&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/05/30/my-music-doesnt-come-in-genres/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/05/30/my-music-doesnt-come-in-genres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had an odd realization the other day; I ran across a new music streaming site &#8211; promising &#8220;interactive radio that will blow your mind&#8221; &#8211; but while scanning through the list of 50 or so categories of music to choose one matching my tastes, my interest rapidly waned. ALL of them looked bad to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t Developers Like to Estimate Time Accurately?</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/04/09/why-dont-developers-like-to-estimate-time-accurately/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/04/09/why-dont-developers-like-to-estimate-time-accurately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading this just now &#8211; Why Can&#8217;t Developers Estimate Time? &#8211; and realized the discussion leaves out some fairly important psychological factors that influence time estimates significantly. As the developer, you focus on the risky bits &#8212; the parts that are technically difficult &#38; complex, that use new APIs or new libraries you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your codebase is a user interface</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/03/26/your-codebase-is-a-user-interface/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2011/03/26/your-codebase-is-a-user-interface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code user interface developers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every developer has spent time working on at least one project that was rife with poorly or bizarrely-named variables/methods/types, dead code, impossibly long code blocks, misleading comments, contorted logic, ancient libraries and dependencies that are never upgraded, and worse. &#8220;Someday,&#8221; of course, &#8220;we&#8217;ll clean that up&#8221; &#8212; but there are urgent features already promised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long shadows of colonialism</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/12/12/long-shadows-of-colonialism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/12/12/long-shadows-of-colonialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cannibalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Rosling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First: an brief, animated guided tour of health and wealth statistics over the past 200 years, from Hans Rosling (this is far more interesting then it sounds at first blush).  If you haven&#8217;t seen this video already, you may still know Rosling from his TED.com talks, also excellent and worth looking up. Rosling didn&#8217;t stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative procrastination</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/07/10/creative-procrastination/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/07/10/creative-procrastination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Bella Bang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was taking Mrs. Bang for a walk last night, at 2am or so, and mulling over my ideas for a dauntingly large new feature I want to add to my music theory site. One idea spun from another, and I started thinking about mad libs &#8212; you know, the game where you fill in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye surgery</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/03/09/eye-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/03/09/eye-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to all of the friends, and friends of friends, and contacts of friends of friends (!) who shared their advice, thoughts, warm wishes and professional opinions with me when I was deciding how to proceed with the slipped IOL (artificial lens) in my right eye. I&#8217;m documenting discussions I had with my ophthalmologist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly moving&#8230; unforgettable.</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2009/09/16/truly-moving-unforgettable/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2009/09/16/truly-moving-unforgettable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So.. I have some lyrics that popped into my head while I was driving. Best performed a capella, with deep feeling. I&#8217;d make a video to go with this but wait what the hell am I thinking I have no spare time. One day I&#8217;ll be independently wealthy and I will do silly things all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Approach to Exception Handling</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/05/an-approach-to-exception-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/05/an-approach-to-exception-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exception handling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[In response to this post, also posted here, asking about guidelines different developers have come up with....  I actually started a response on the site, then realized I was typing an entire essay into a little comment box.] Guideline #1: Never discard exception information. You might either wrap the exception and throw the wrapper, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Firefox, through Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/02/support-firefox-through-internet-explorer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/02/support-firefox-through-internet-explorer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a web developer (or if you have to use websites that are still IE-only) you might spend time browsing in both Firefox and IE. You may also have noticed that when you use the toolbar search box in either one, the browser tacks a few extra parameters onto the Google search URL&#8230; so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding getting flashed by Dilbert</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/04/25/avoiding-getting-flashed-by-dilbert/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/04/25/avoiding-getting-flashed-by-dilbert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bookmarklet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the Dilbert comics online for years, always from the archive page &#8211; the home page was just overwhelmingly cluttered by ads, and it required extra clicks to see previous comics when I&#8217;d missed a few days. So when the central Dilbert site switched to a super Flash-heavy format for their homepage (including [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Les oies sauvages</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/03/13/les-oies-sauvages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/03/13/les-oies-sauvages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Bella Bang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wild geese]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/03/13/les-oies-sauvages/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Bang and I just got back from a walk. I&#8217;ve been feeling low for the past few days &#8212; I&#8217;m alone in the house for a couple of weeks (through the 28th or thereabouts), and my sleep schedule is still in the wild adjustment period that happens when my usual source of &#8220;go sleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schlump around</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/25/schlump-around/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/25/schlump-around/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schlump]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/25/schlump-around/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever open your eyes in the morning and just know, for certain, that no good will come out of the day? That you have things to do, but you are going to muddle through your standard procrastinations and find yourself still schlumping around when you notice with confused horror that the sun has already set [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Disconnected ShareThis plugin for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redirect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ShareThis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see the ShareThis plugin on tons of WordPress blogs &#8212; and with reason, because the presentation is quite nice. You don&#8217;t have to take up a chunk of the screen listing all of the different social networks (and they keep multiplying&#8230;) or offering the option to email this post to a friend; instead you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>404 pages on 1&amp;1 webhosting: complaint and solution</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1&1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[404]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[custom error pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web hosting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an unpleasant surprise today when I was testing a new site I&#8217;m setting up using 1&#38;1 web hosting&#8230; I mistyped the URL, and lo and behold, instead of showing any kind of useful error page for the 404, the server neatly redirected my browser to a completely different URL, &#8220;domparking.php&#8221; at the &#8220;sedoparking.com&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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