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	<title>Just as I had suspected</title>
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		<title>Creative procrastination</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/07/10/creative-procrastination/</link>
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		<title>Eye surgery</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2010/03/09/eye-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Truly moving&#8230; unforgettable.</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2009/09/16/truly-moving-unforgettable/</link>
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		<title>An Approach to Exception Handling</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/05/an-approach-to-exception-handling/</link>
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		<title>Support Firefox, through Internet Explorer</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/02/support-firefox-through-internet-explorer/</link>
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		<title>Avoiding getting flashed by Dilbert</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/04/25/avoiding-getting-flashed-by-dilbert/</link>
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		<title>Les oies sauvages</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/03/13/les-oies-sauvages/</link>
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		<title>Schlump around</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/25/schlump-around/</link>
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		<title>Disconnected ShareThis plugin for WordPress</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>404 pages on 1&amp;1 webhosting: complaint and solution</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/</link>
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		<title>Curing hiccups</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/10/curing-hiccups/</link>
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		<title>The data (u&#124;dys)topia</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/09/the-data-udystopia/</link>
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		<title>Database Naming: A response</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/25/database-naming-a-response/</link>
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		<title>On Anagrams &amp; Presidents</title>
		<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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/22/on-anagrams-presidents/</link>
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		<title>Twisting words</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/14/twisting-words/</link>
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