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		<title>Grammar 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Slashdot poll asked readers what should be in a 101 course that everyone had to pass, with a wide variety of acceptable options. Like most of these polls, both the question and the options are set up poorly &#8212; no context, an option that doesn&#8217;t work (&#8220;other, listed below&#8221; implies an AJAX-y box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Absolute Terms &#8211; &#8220;Unbreakable&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writer, proper terminology in both fiction and nonfiction is key &#8212; the wrong word can ruin even the best idea. In marketing, the same princple holds. So one would think that the use of the adjective &#8220;unbreakable&#8221; to describe a product is more than just irresponsible, but outright dangerous. Describing a product in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Fan Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing against dedicated fans wanting to make films deriving from a movie or video game. In some cases, the original work gets a PR boost, and it&#8217;s hard to argue with free advertising that attracts more fans. However, when the IP holder hasn&#8217;t set a clear precedent for fan-created works, that&#8217;s when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urging Smartphone Users to Browse Less?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T&#8217;s president and CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets, Ralph de la Vega, has called out the smartphone crowd in recent comments to the press and investment analysts. In the days of more primitive phones, &#8220;mobile&#8221; versions of websites were necessary; small screens, small amounts of available memory, and poor image quality all brought forth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Computers on One-Year Layaway</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/11/putting-computers-on-one-year-layaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of tech news outlets reported a Federal Trade Commission memo filed this past Thursday in an ongoing case in U.S. District Court (Southern District of New York) against a firm called BlueHippo. The FTC, which had successfully reached a settlement with the firm in April 2008, alleges that the terms of the agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidekick Trips, But Blame It On the Cloud?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few T-Mobile subscribers are steaming after a recent meltdown of the infrastructure supporting the Sidekick mobile phone, culminating in a dire warning: keep your device powered at all times and do not restart them, or lose all of your data. Apparently Microsoft/Danger, the phone&#8217;s developer and data service maintainer, screwed up translating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Discourse on Cantaloupe</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/06/a-short-discourse-on-cantaloupe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some strange and bizarre things that come up on CNBC. For instance, Rick Santelli, the reporter/commentator at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, tore into colleague Steve Liesman, the network&#8217;s senior economics reporter, over claims that senior executives of financial firms failed to disclose material information to &#8220;save the world.&#8221; The FCC may have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fox television series &#8220;Firefly&#8221; had its own little bit of wit and charm before, as many viewers would agree, it was prematurely snufed out. With creator Joss Whedon firmly working on a new series, &#8220;Dollhouse,&#8221; it&#8217;s been assumed for quite some time that a revival of Firefly isn&#8217;t a possibility in the near future. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Day Article FAIL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert J. Funches</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Writer's note: The use of "FAIL" in a title definitely flies in the face of the subtitle, "Old-style musings on new things." But there are times when new-style musings are needed, and this has the needed effect.] As a writer, I cringe at the glaring front-page errors in the local daily paper. As a former [...]]]></description>
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