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	<title>Cottleston Pie</title>
	<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog</link>
	<description>and other exclamations by the accidental taoist</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Profile M</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ My friend M has a plea, in the interest of safety, that he be repeatedly selected for extended screening at airport security.  If you read the comments on his post, I'm going to have to agree with Gopi on this one.  I've the impression that M's post  is more about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/23/dont-profile-m/</link>
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		<title>Paradisical Maine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I recently finished James Michener's Hawaii while on vacation with family in Maine.  It's a long book, so I've been thinking about Hawaii for a while now.  From Michener and the images and pictures on television and in magazines, Hawaii appears to be quite the island paradise.  I got the impression [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/22/paradisical-maine/</link>
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		<title>The Postmaster hasn&#8217;t rang for two weeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago a friend sent me a wedding invitation.  It was returned to her with "Undeliverable" stamped across the top.  I cannot imagine why.  The only thing slightly unusual: the address was written in cursive and Boulevard and Apartment were not abbreviated.  Such is the custom for formal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/19/the-postmaster-hasnt-rang-for-two-weeks/</link>
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		<title>Photo Exposure and Fourier Transforms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A couple of weeks ago, I took a couple of pictures of the Austin skyline above the trees along the edge of Town Lake.  My two best images had different strengths.  One had a better contrast of the buildings against the sky, but the details of the tree foliage were lost in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/16/photo-exposure-and-fourier-transforms/</link>
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		<title>Bring Out the Clowns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today is "Take Our Children to Work Day."  There are clowns, balloon animals, face painting and all kinds of cute little one's down in the cafeteria and the children can occasionally be seen in the halls too.  It's a fun injection of energy and I'm glad they have it. 
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		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/15/bring-out-the-clowns/</link>
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		<title>Fujitsu boost for PostgreSQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Aha, so a Fujitsu sponsorship has helped the PostgreSQL development team come out with such an outstanding list of improvements for the next release!  I read Robert Treat's PostgreSQL Weekly News which includes a summary of each week's development progress as seen on the development mailing list and I have been quite amazed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/01/fujitsu-boost-for-postgresql/</link>
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		<title>Born in the ex-Republic of Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday a friend and I had lunch and ran a few errands.  We stopped at the 
Bureau of Vital Statistics to get an extra copy of The Princess's birth certificate.  As we waited in line, we saw the sample heirloom "Native Texan" birth certificates displayed on the wall.  He and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/01/born-in-the-ex-republic-of-texas/</link>
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		<title>See the Ladee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks ago, I saw the one-woman show Ladee&nbsp;Leroy down at St. Eds, the principal's alma mater wherein she earned (payed for...) her degree in theater.  

 Her show was brilliantly funny and I recommend it, particularly to us Gen Xers and younger young working adults and those who know us. 

 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/07/01/see-the-ladee/</link>
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		<title>Keeping the car keys safely locked in the car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Bad just goes to worse this Monday.  I had to travel home to make a telephone call (more on that ridiculousness in a future entry) and as I closed my car door with the same hand that was holding my keys, I lost my grip on my keys and locked them in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/06/28/keeping-the-car-keys-safely-locked-in-the-car/</link>
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		<title>Reboot into WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There were several things that had been irking me about Movable&nbsp;Type (MT) which I won't bother to detail.  So I decided to switch to WordPress (WP). 

 The switch was very easy, with one caveat I'll get to in a minute, and I'm glad I did: 

 No more re-building pages 
 Faster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2004/06/26/reboot-into-wordpress/</link>
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