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	<title>marstinson</title>
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	<description>the world according to me</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The (Non)Utility of Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2007/10/06/the-nonutility-of-cell-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kanellos&#8217; recent article about finally getting a cell phone promted me to stop and think for a moment about my own cell phone. I was not what you might call an &#8220;early adopter&#8221; of the technology. In fact, for many of Michael&#8217;s reasons, I actively resisted getting one. But I finally gave in several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Get &#8216;Em, Fred!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2007/09/09/go-get-em-fred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News and Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s finally official (and I don&#8217;t mean my non-abandonment of this blog). Fred Dalton Thompson finally stopped pussy-footing around and decided to officially run for President. Go get &#8216;em, Fred.
Personally, I don&#8217;t know enough about Fred to have much of an informed opinion one way or the other. I like his Arthur Branch character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower&#8217;n Whale Feces</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2007/01/19/lowern-whale-feces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As if it weren&#8217;t bad enough to be flooding my inboxes, now they&#8217;re trying to flood my blog-space. 60-odd comments in the past couple of days, each generating an email to me. I had figured that something like this might happen, which was why I turned on comment moderation. It&#8217;s not that I particulaly mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What never forgets? A computer, that&#8217;s what.</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2007/01/15/what-never-forgets-a-computer-thats-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tesguides.com/2007/01/15/what-never-forgets-a-computer-thats-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I was playing around with the Miranda instant messaging client (free download from sourceforge.net). It&#8217;s an interesting little utility because it works with several IM services (Yahoo!, AOL, MSN, ICQ, IRC, and Jabber). I haven&#8217;t really been into instant messaging for years, though I do use one occasionally. But a multi-protocol client seemed worth checking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Bribing Bloggers? Heavens to Murgatroyd!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/31/microsoft-bribing-bloggers-heavens-to-murgatroyd/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/31/microsoft-bribing-bloggers-heavens-to-murgatroyd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News and Politics]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Newsflash: Uproar in the blogosphere over Microsoft tactics.
Seems that the good folks at Redmond had an idea. What about sending Acer Ferrari laptops to some of the bloggers on The Hive? For those of you who might not know, The Hive is a web community more or less dedicated to talking about Microsoft products and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U R N0t 1337 - G3t 0vr 1t!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/21/u-r-n0t-1337-g3t-0vr-1t/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/21/u-r-n0t-1337-g3t-0vr-1t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The guitar relearning proceeds apace. Neither Eddie Van Halen nor the kid down the block have anything to fear from me. I am so sick of &#8220;Yankee Doodle&#8221; and &#8220;Skip to My Lou&#8221; that I could just about puke, but everyone has to start somewhere. At any rate, I&#8217;ve been perusing the forums at several dedicated guitar-playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behave Like a Human</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/19/behave-like-a-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was verifying links in the previous post, I hit a link at Paul English&#8217;s blog (www.paulenglish.com) that linked elsewhere and eventually dumped me out at Violent Acres in an article about employees being subjected to verbal abuse from customers who believe that &#8220;the customer is always right&#8221; allows them to behave like morons.
While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk to a Human</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/19/talk-to-a-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tought I&#8217;d put this out, mainly for my own reference when I suffer from blown memory buffers:
 A fellow named Paul English put together a list of company phone numbers that usually went direct to a human being. The response to his list was so overwhelming that he moved it off of his blogspace and into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Music Has Destroyed My Appreciation of Music?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/17/playing-music-has-destroyed-my-appreciation-of-music/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/12/17/playing-music-has-destroyed-my-appreciation-of-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently decided to pick up the guitar again. I played for a while in high school, but pretty much dropped it about 30 years ago. So my Christmas present to myself this year was an electric guitar and I&#8217;m diligently trying to relearn the instrument. One thing that I&#8217;m doing differently this time is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlook Journal Categories</title>
		<link>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/11/19/outlook-journal-categories/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tesguides.com/2006/11/19/outlook-journal-categories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marstinson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in an earlier post, I use the Outlook Journal quite a bit. One item that has annoyed me about it is the number of Journal categories that I don&#8217;t use and the lack of any capability inside of Outlook to add/remove/change those categories. For example, there are several categories of Journal entries [...]]]></description>
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