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		<title>Grammar 101</title>
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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>Last Christmas in Vana&#8217;diel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the proprietor of a once-prominent Final Fantasy XI website, The Vana&#8217;diel Lobby, I wonder whether this will be the last Christmas that most players will spend in Vana&#8217;diel. Square Enix has opened a beta test application period for what will undoubtedly be the heir apparent, Final Fantasy XIV, and with a 2010 launch, it [...]]]></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>The Paradox of Region-Blocked Internet Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/10/the-paradox-of-region-blocked-internet-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slashdot carried a story earlier this week about the popular television/movie streaming site Hulu blocking access to visitors coming from the Witopia VPN service, which has multiple endpoints in the U.S. as well as in the U.K. and Hong Kong. Also picked up by Australian site PC Authority, the block is notable because it appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live CDs Not an End-All for Online Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post computer columnist Brian Krebs posted an October 12 article (picked up by Slashdot the following day) urging small and medium-sized businesses to protect their bank accounts by accessing online banking through a Linux live CD instead of a Windows workstation, due to the abundance of sophisticated malware targeting the Windows operating system. He [...]]]></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>Woven Glass</title>
		<link>http://www.robertjfunches.com/blog/2009/08/woven-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS Sunday Morning re-ran a story a few weeks ago on Eric Markow and Thom Norris, two artists working out of nearby Falls Church, VA. Their craft? Woven glass. Some of their pieces featured in the story simply defy all reason.
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