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	<description>The needless rants, odd dreams, and bogus insights of a raving software developer.</description>
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		<title>Mental Probe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about some people just from how they respond to random stuff found on the Intartubes.

The Test topic: Guitar Captured with Enough Coke Stashed Aboard to Take Us All to Electric Ladyland]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/10/26/mental-probe/</link>
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		<title>And so life in San Francisco begins&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 2:48pm on September 14th, I entered San Francisco by crossing over the city/county line in the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/09/14/and-so-life-in-san-francisco-begins/</link>
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		<title>The root of all Andys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The limited contact one has with co-workers means they can end up thinking of you in ways you don&#8217;t have control over.  First impressions are important, but impressions continue to develop over time.  However, the way Rob Warmowski has classified me is a new one.  As someone who is used to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/09/03/the-root-of-all-andys/</link>
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		<title>Voluntary Survey, Anonymous Breathalyser Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...driving around town last night, there was a road block on Elston with signs that said "Voluntary Survey" and an SUV marked "Sheriff" was redirecting people into the Microcenter parking lot...]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/07/21/voluntary-survey-anonymous-breathalyser-test/</link>
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		<title>TECHcocktail BINGO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that anyone seemed to have any trouble breaking the ice or starting up a conversation, but TECHcocktail should have some kind of bingo game, treasure hunt, or something like that.  This way, people have another excuse to chat each other up, can check things off, gather points, and there can be prizes at the end that you can effectively "earn" rather than just get lucky and win.  To get things started, here's a sample list of point generators and things to find...]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/07/13/techcocktail-bingo/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Please Download QuickTime, We&#8217;re Stuck in Web1.0&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why can't Apple use de-facto and portable video codecs in their marketing materials?  We still need to download plug-ins to view QuickTime in 2007.]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/06/22/quicktime-is-stuck-in-web10/</link>
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		<title>ssh keys on a removal drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Storing ssh keys on a removable USB drive]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/06/06/ssh-keys-on-a-removal-drive/</link>
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		<title>Competition and Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the debate and discussion about Network Neutrality is about tiered service, that ISPs will charge different amounts of money to both ends of a connection based on traffic priorities set by their own best interests.  Meaning that if Comcast offers a VoIP service, they think they should be allowed to restrict [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/04/13/competition-and-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>Washed Up 80s Television Stars Push Penis Pills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sex sells, especially when you&#8217;re selling sex products.  Take this image for example:

You may recognize this as Shredder, of late 80s kids television cartoon fame, fucking April, also of late 80s kids television cartoon fame, from behind.  The guy can&#8217;t even be bothered to take off his cape.  April appears to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/03/31/washed-up-80s-television-stars-push-penis-pills/</link>
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		<title>An Alternative to .XXX: Self-Policing Through Subdomain Labels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an alternative to the creation of the .XXX TLD, the adult content industry can self-police by instituting the use of a defacto standard subdomain for adult content other than www, placing their content under adult.example.com, or further subdomains thereof, thereby cheaply and effectively labeling content on a domain basis without the involvement of third-parties.]]></description>
		<link>http://thwartedefforts.org/2007/03/17/an-alternative-to-xxx-self-policing-through-subdomain-labels/</link>
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