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		<title>Drinking from a Fire Hose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I collected stacks of unread issues of Science and Nature and put them in a recycling bin. I have subscribed to Science since the early 1980s and to Nature since the early 1990s. I still enjoy reading both &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/science/drinking-from-a-fire-hose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Relearning PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time has come for me to relearn PHP. When I last used PHP, in 2005, I was using PHP 4.4, which had pretty poor support for classes and objects. Compared to Perl, I found PHP pretty awkward. PHP 5 &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/relearning-php/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trek Valencia: A Quick Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick review on my new Trek Valencia,which I bought over two months ago. The Valencia is the first modern bike I&#8217;ve owned. (I also own a 1984 Raleigh Marathon, and I owned some road bikes in the &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/bicycling/trek-valencia-a-quick-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Random Shuffle Algorithms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent slashdot.org thread discussed how a programmer at Microsoft incorrectly implemented a random shuffle algorithm. The discussion was prompted by an article Rob Weir wrote in which he presented a comprehensive analysis of the problem and provided a correct &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/random-shuffle-algorithms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anticipating My New Bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I love bicycling, I have not done any serious bicycling for several years. In the 1970&#8242;s, I was a bicycle commuting pioneer in Portland, Oregon, riding in the morning from my home in SE Portland to classes downtown at &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/bicycling/anticipating-my-new-bicycle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/bicycling/anticipating-my-new-bicycle/</link>
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		<title>Apple’s Tablet Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Apple Inc. introduced its new tablet computer, the iPad. The best summary of the iPad that I have read is, not surprisingly, written by Adam Engst at tidbits.com. I provide here notes about the features that interest me. The &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/apple%e2%80%99s-tablet-computer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/apple%e2%80%99s-tablet-computer/</link>
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		<title>That Expensive Microsoft Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I finished reinstalling Vista Business on my MacBook Pro. I say finished, because the reinstallation required two days. I needed to reinstall Vista after I had updated Mac OS X to Snow Leopard (10.6), at which time I had &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/that-expensive-microsoft-experience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/that-expensive-microsoft-experience/</link>
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		<title>Solitaire Cryptosystem in “Cryptonomicon”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past two or three weeks, I&#8217;ve been reading Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Cryptonomicon, a novel published in 1999. Much of the story in the novel concerns cryptography, and page 480 contains a Perl script that can be used to encrypt &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/books/solitaire-cryptosystem-in-%e2%80%9ccryptonomicon%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Blow to the Death Penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times today describes how the American Law Institute has given up attempting to maintain an intellectual framework for the death penalty. A study commissioned by the institute said that decades of &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/society/a-blow-to-the-death-penalty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/society/a-blow-to-the-death-penalty/</link>
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		<title>Waiting for the Next iPod touch Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen months ago I traded in my old iPod mini for a new 8-GB iPod touch. I think the price at the time was about $230, but I got a 10% discount for exchanging the old iPod mini. Six weeks &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/waiting-for-the-next-ipod-touch-model/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/waiting-for-the-next-ipod-touch-model/</link>
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		<title>Tolkien Fan Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiction written by the fans of J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings has been around for decades (for example, see the Henneth Annûn Story Archive), but since the Peter Jackson movies, a new development is Tolkien fan &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/movies/tolkien-fan-films/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading to Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I put off upgrading the operating system on my MacBook Pro from Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) until I had free time over the holidays. These are my brief notes about how I &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/upgrading-to-snow-leopard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/upgrading-to-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>How to Boot Mac OS X From a Western Digital My Passport Studio External Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I own a Western Digital My Passport Studio 320 GB external hard drive, which I purchased a few weeks ago as a backup drive for my MacBook Pro. The drive came with three cables, a FireWire 800 cable, a FireWire &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/how-to-boot-mac-os-x-from-a-western-digital-my-passport-studio-external-drive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/how-to-boot-mac-os-x-from-a-western-digital-my-passport-studio-external-drive/</link>
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		<title>Blogging From My iPod touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus spent posting tweets on my Twitter account and diving into Facebook, I have decided to get back to posting to my blog. One way to make blogging easier for me is to begin writing posts from &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/blogging-from-my-ipod-touch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter for Week of 16 November 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are my annotated tweets for the week of 16 November 2008. Follow my microblog on Twitter at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling, then come here for the expanded version. Dictionary Evangelist 2008-11-16: I just watched a TED presentation on the dictionary by Erin &#8230; <a href="http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/microblog/twitter-for-week-of-16-november-2008/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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