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	<description>11110_2 years of geek.</description>
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		<title>Rebooting Spider-Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony is apparently running out of ideas and is going to reboot Spider-Man. Everyone involved with the current Spider-Man franchise is no longer explicitly attached to the movies. If they&#8217;ll keep anyone at all I hope it&#8217;s J.K. Simmons and his scene-stealing take on J. Jonah Jameson.
I really hope they simply skip the &#8220;Our story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topics in &#8220;The Smashing Book&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo! Typography!
The Smashing Book
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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2010/topics-in-the-smashing-book/</link>
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		<title>Greatest SciFi Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is perhaps the greatest scene from a science fiction tv show or, indeed, any show.

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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/greatest-scifi-scene/</link>
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		<title>Ping Pong!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having an older brother who lives just down the street with his wife and baby is awesome. Their new Ping-Pong table serves very well to reinforce that conclusion. We played a bit last night, I even managed to reach the marginally upper teens in a couple games.
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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/ping-pong/</link>
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		<title>Eucalyptus App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Own an iPhone/iPod Touch? Like books? Like free books? You need to buy Eucalyptus App. Eucalyptus is an interface to Project Gutenberg: no more, no less. And it&#8217;s gorgeously well done. Mini-reviews, book cards, smooth page turning animations, searching, and a slick discovery interface to the 20,000+ books in Project Gutenberg.
Eucalyptus is currently on sale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/eucalyptus-app/</link>
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		<title>Git vs Hg vs Bazaar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heh.
http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
http://whyhgisbetterthanx.com/
http://whybzrisbetterthanx.github.com/
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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/git-vs-hg-vs-bazaar/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the end of the third day of Christmas, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned so far:

If your receiver has the capability, go for the front wide speakers before the front height. Dolby Pro Logic IIz is supposed to be designed with videogames in mind, but even as a committed gamer I find the smoothing of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Smashing Book is Smashing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My copy of The Smashing Book arrived today and, from a quick flip through, it looks completely chock full of fantastic advice. Sort of a Pragmatic Programmers for Web Design. Expect highlights.
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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/smashing-book-is-smashing/</link>
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		<title>WordPress 2.9 is out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica&#8217;s report on WordPress 2.9.
I&#8217;ve upgraded this blog to 2.9, and the improvements are very slick. Expect more picture posts in the future as the new media library handling is extremely nice.
The auto-embedding of linked videos is deliciously simple as well:

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		<link>http://www.xyzzyb.com/2009/wordpress-2-9-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Easy Directory Jumping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the server section of my bash profile, I find the following (obfuscated) snippet to be very handy.
Updated to allow delving into subdirectories.

# easy directory jumping
for dir in $&#40;find /webroot -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d &#124; cut -d'/' -f3&#41;
do
  alias $dir=&#34;root $dir&#34;
  alias inc$dir=&#34;inc $dir&#34;
done
root&#40;&#41; &#123; cd &#34;/webroot/$1/$2&#34;; &#125;
inc&#40;&#41; &#123; cd &#34;/webincludes/$1/$2&#34;; [...]]]></description>
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