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	<title>Just as I had suspected</title>
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	<description>overthink backscatter</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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 the [...]]]></description>
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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>

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		<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 now&#8221; [...]]]></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>

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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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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>

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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>404 pages on 1&#038;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&amp;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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		<title>Curing hiccups</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/10/curing-hiccups/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/10/curing-hiccups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hiccup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was googling the word &#8220;intractable&#8221;, just to make sure I wasn&#8217;t misusing it too egregiously in the post I just put up&#8230; and right there, the fifth result on the very first page, was a hiccup cure.
Doesn&#8217;t everyone who&#8217;s ever had the hiccups want to know a cure?  And this is not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The data (u&#124;dys)topia</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/09/the-data-udystopia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/09/the-data-udystopia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dystopia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take one simple conversation with a neighbor, add a few late night walks in the dark, and it develops into a complete utopian/dystopian vision of the not-so-distant future.
First, the conversation: we were talking about everyday marital strife, and she mentioned how her husband wants to redo the roof himself &#8212; it&#8217;s a relatively straightforward project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Naming: A response</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/25/database-naming-a-response/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/25/database-naming-a-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Note to non-technical types: skip this one.  It contains no entertainment value whatsoever.]
 I read an interesting article linked from DZone today, proposing a naming approach for database tables and fields.
What was a little startling to me, though, is that it was clearly a carefully-considered approach, but I disagreed with almost every single conclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Anagrams &#038; Presidents</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/22/on-anagrams-presidents/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/22/on-anagrams-presidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anagram]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember finding the Internet Anagram Server, some years ago, and (of course) plugging in my own name to check all the possibilities.  It&#8217;s a good one for anagrams:

He no brawl
Whale-born
Labor hewn
Bean whorl
 No herb law!
Blah owner
Whole bran
Blew a horn
Her own lab
 Ban Howler
Brawn hole (whoa, there)
Hare blown
Nab her owl!
 La Web Horn
 He, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twisting words</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/14/twisting-words/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/14/twisting-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[childhood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[phase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[phrase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[word games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You might expect a political post here, but I&#8217;m staying away from all that for now.
Instead, I&#8217;d like to share a sort of torture technique (I know, this sounds like I&#8217;m discussing US politics again, but bear with me) that I thought up for the benefit of my little sister, long ago.
Here&#8217;s how it works:

You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeepers cripes</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/11/jeepers-cripes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/11/jeepers-cripes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[childhood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jeepers cripes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once, long ago, in a land far, far away from where I live today, I waited with one or more of my siblings in the family sedan while one or more of our parents ran into one or more of the nearby shops to enact one or more unknown transactions.
The memory is a bit fuzzy.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day in review</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/01/the-day-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/01/the-day-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cardboard box desk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which day in review?  Could be just about any day, I guess.
Welcome to my work area.  Someday I will upgrade to an actual desk, instead of a pile of cardboard boxes and flooring basically held together by the cables winding through it.
The chair lends a vague respectability to the scene which is wholly unwarranted.

The setup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A brief introduction: Mrs. Bella Bang</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/01/a-brief-introduction-mrs-bella-bang/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/01/a-brief-introduction-mrs-bella-bang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Bella Bang]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, she has a bed, and it&#8217;s absolutely large enough for her, but sometimes she doesn&#8217;t seem clear on how to use it.
This is Bella.


We imagine her full name to be Mrs. Bella Bang, principally because she sometimes has the air of a lady &#8220;of a certain age&#8221; as they say here, who carries a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas carol</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2007/12/26/a-christmas-carol/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2007/12/26/a-christmas-carol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs. Bella Bang]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chestnuts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2007/12/26/a-christmas-carol/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To set the scene: it is just barely December 25th, around 1:30 in the morning.  I&#8217;m out with Mrs. Bella Bang for that last walk before bed.  We walk out past the sheltering yellow streetlights, into a narrow lane leading out into farmland.  It&#8217;s dark and quiet.  We don&#8217;t bother with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello and welcome</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2007/12/24/hello-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2007/12/24/hello-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still puzzling over exactly what I&#8217;m going to put here long term, but I have some ideas to get rolling.  I figure even a scattershot approach will still serve a purpose.
For the most part it&#8217;s a way to reach out a bit to my far-flung family and friends, and give them a chance to [...]]]></description>
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