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	<title>Andy @ Hillhome.org</title>
	<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog</link>
	<description>Andrew Hill's Blog.  Politics, technology, all the usual stuff</description>
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		<title>Snowmobiling 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Aaron Benson and I just got back from a 4-day snowmobiling adventure in Michigan&#8217;s upper peninsula.  The conditions were very good, despite a big thaw and lots of rain about a week before our trip.  Thankfully, temperatures plunged back to the teens and plenty of snow had fallen by the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2010/02/06/snowmobiling-2010/</link>
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		<title>Think you&#8217;re entitled to your wealth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think again.  I heard on the radio today the most straightforward and honest explanation I&#8217;ve ever heard from a Liberal Democrat about what they believe.  This is what these people stand for, so watch out, and don&#8217;t be shocked when you end up with less under their rule.  This is Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA):

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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/11/04/think-youre-entitled-to-your-wealth/</link>
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		<title>Missourians and Dems, Be Proud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Missourians and Democrats should both be proud of Sen. Claire McCaskill&#8217;s behavior toward Mitt Romney.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/10/08/missourians-and-dems-be-proud/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Illogical Tax Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one I just don&#8217;t get.  Barack Obama said today that he might not rescind President Bush&#8217;s tax cuts in light of the current economic slowdown.
That implies that he thinks it would be harmful to the economy to raise taxes on &#8220;the wealthy few.&#8221;  If it&#8217;s a bad idea in an economic downturn, how is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/09/08/obamas-illogical-tax-policy/</link>
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		<title>Crane Lake 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from a wonderful trip to Crane Lake, MN.  Did some fishing, boating, hiking, exploring, and hanging out with friends and family.
Placed my first Geocache up there: Tall Man of Crane Lake.
Pictures are posted to Flickr.  Here are a few samples:

Mike, Melissa and me at the Crane Lake Voyageur statue

Sand Point Lake, just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/09/06/crane-lake-2008/</link>
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		<title>Palin Rumors, Ratings, Pivots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across a site that painstakingly addresses all the rumors circulating about Gov. Sarah Palin.  Most of them are beyond absurd.
I&#8217;m sure it pained the Huffington Post to run this story about McCain&#8217;s speech not only topping Palin&#8217;s in the ratings, but also the messianic Obama&#8217;s speech, and every other convention speech in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/09/06/palin-rumors-ratings-pivots/</link>
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		<title>Governor Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This pick looks promising &#8211; I&#8217;m still reading up on her.
In the meantime, my favorite line from National Review Online this morning about Joe Biden:
Real people don&#8217;t define &#8220;experience&#8221; as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/08/30/governor-palin/</link>
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		<title>More on Obama and Biden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some articles I found that mirror my own thoughts:
Jim Geraghty on Joe Biden vs. Barack Obama on National Review Online
Michael Barone on the unsustainable nature of Obama&#8217;s Narrative on National Review Online
Best line from the Weekly Standard Blog: &#8220;We&#8217;ll get to dust off Joe Biden&#8217;s greatest hits, a pleasurable task that will take weeks.&#8221;
I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/08/23/more-on-obama-and-biden/</link>
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		<title>Joe Biden as VP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is actually the pick I was hoping for.Â  He is actually quite a funny guy, but he often takes it too far.  It&#8217;s only a matter of time before he puts his foot in his mouth again, or perhaps even his entire leg.
The idea that 6 terms in the U.S. Senate make him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/08/23/joe-biden-as-vp/</link>
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		<title>Snapshot of Past Climate Reveals No Ice in Antarctica Millions of Years Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picked this up from the NASA Earth Observatory site.  I can&#8217;t wait to see how the Al Gore fanboy croud reacts to this one:
EO News: Snapshot of Past Climate Reveals No Ice in Antarctica Millions of Years Ago &#8211; July 28, 2008
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/07/29/snapshot-of-past-climate-reveals-no-ice-in-antarctica-millions-of-years-ago/</link>
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		<title>Site Makeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can tell, I&#8217;ve undertaken some drastic measures in changing the appearance of this site.  Unfortunately, I suffered a couple hacks recently, which have caused me to take a hard look at hardening the whole web site, and various aspects of WordPress specifically.  The theme I had been using was heavily customized by me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/06/17/site-makeover/</link>
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		<title>Democrats and Our Enemies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Joseph Lieberman makes far too much sense in an opinion pieceÂ in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.Â  Meanwhile, the kook lefties at Daily Kos react predictably, using lines like &#8220;true diplomacy comes from using the velvet glove.&#8221;
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/05/21/democrats-and-our-enemies/</link>
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		<title>The Great Snowmobile Trip of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I previously posted pictures to Flickr, but am long overdue in posting the GPS tracks from the trip.  You can click on each one for a larger version.
In case you&#8217;re just joining us, this was a 4 day snowmobiling trip to Michigan&#8217;s upper peninsula, with my brother Mike and two friends.
Over the course of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/03/06/the-great-snowmobile-trip-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Novell, Hello VMware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been severely neglecting this site the past several months with everything going on.  Moving is about my least favorite thing on earth, and as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, I resigned from Novell at the end of December to take a job at fast-growing virtualization giant VMware.  Leaving Novell was something I agonized over for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/02/07/goodbye-novell-hello-vmware/</link>
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		<title>Finally, Straight Talk from a Politician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is priceless: John Boehner calls Immigration Bill a &#8220;Piece Of Shit&#8221;
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/05/23/finally-straight-talk-from-a-politician/</link>
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		<title>Brood XIII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News outlets have been ratcheting up coverage of the scheduled emergence of Brood XIII in Northern Illinois.  So far, I have not seen (or heard) any in our area.  Apparently this evening (Monday May 21) and tomorrow are the expected times for mass emergence.
It&#8217;s pretty interesting that this type of cicada has developed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/05/21/brood-xiii/</link>
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		<title>Yellow Plastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In getting our house ready to put on the market, my wife and I were recently wondering why it is that smoke detectors always turn yellow after a few years.
As always, Google came to the rescue with an answer, albeit not having anything to do with smoke detectors.  So, if you are wondering why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/05/19/yellow-plastic/</link>
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		<title>Immigration Deal Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personally, this new deal looks like a terrible idea. What I&#8217;ve found particularly interesting is the interesting mix of people from both parties that also don&#8217;t like it. As you would expect, most Republican presidential candidates are against the deal, even though President Bush is ostensibly for it. It shocks me a little that many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/05/18/immigration-deal-scorecard/</link>
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		<title>Flight Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit of an aviation buff, so I thought this was pretty cool, even though it&#8217;s been around for a while.  A guy named Aaron Koblin created a bunch of animations based on FAA flight tracking data.  It&#8217;s part of the Celestial Mechanics project, where there is some more interesting stuff about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/04/18/flight-patterns/</link>
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		<title>Monty Python in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a Monty Python daily tear-off calendar for Christmas, which is quite amusing.  Fun fact from a few days ago:
In February of 1976, Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus became the highest-rated TV show in Japan.  They re-titled it The Gay Boys Dragon Hour, and followed it with an on-air discussion of the program.
As I&#8217;ve mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/03/09/monty-python-in-japan/</link>
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		<title>BlackBerry Charging in Linux!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that I couldn&#8217;t plug my BlackBerry device into a USB port on my laptop running Linux and have it charge really bugged me, and a whole lot of other people.  A few weeks ago, I discovered the Barry project, a small part of which is bCharge, which tells the BlackBerry to request [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/03/01/blackberry-charging-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Perceptive Pixel &amp; Reactable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this multi-touch user interface on another blog today.  It&#8217;s completely amazing stuff &#8211; really just like the sci-fi type of interface that Tom Cruise uses in the movie Minority Report.  Jeff Han is the brains behind this, and his website has some more cool stuff on it.
My brother also pointed me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/02/26/perceptive-pixel-reactable/</link>
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		<title>Vista Installation Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a copy of Microsoft Windows Vista through MSDN, and was having some trouble getting it to work.  YouTube came through again, and this video really helped me out with some good tips.
Enjoy!
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/02/09/vista-installation-help/</link>
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		<title>Cingular UMTS Speed Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m waiting for my flight at O&#8217;Hare, so I just ran a speed test with my new Cingular UMTS broadband card:

The speed has been quite nice, actually.  Supposedly this speed will increase towards the 3.6 Mbps level and beyond as they continue to roll it out and upgrade equipment.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/02/06/cingular-umts-speed-test/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Broadband Cards and Linux: Cingular / UMTS on openSUSE 10.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post outlines how to get an Cingular Option GT Max 3.6 mobile broadband card to work with OpenSUSE 10.2.  It should also apply mostly to other Linux distributions as well.]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2007/02/05/using-a-umts-card-on-opensuse-102/</link>
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		<title>Novell and Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to say I was as shocked as anyone when word started leaking out yesterday that Novell (NOVL) and Microsoft (MSFT) were set to announce some sort of alliance.  After watching the webcast it seems to fit very well with what Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has been all about since he came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/11/03/novell-and-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>The face(s) of the enemy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All you have to ask yourself on election day is, do you want John Kerry and people like him running the country?

Think carefully. Kerry has once again proven that he is unfit to be anything other than a gaseous wind-bag senator.  I bet Democrats just love him out there flapping his gums like this&#8230;
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/11/01/the-faces-of-the-enemy/</link>
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		<title>Customizing Gaim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always bugged me that I could not change the font size of the buddy list in Gaim, and shrink the window to take up a little less horizontal space.
A few weeks ago, I finally found the Extended Preferences Plugin, which lets you change the font sizes of the buddy list and conversations.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/10/25/customizing-gaim/</link>
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		<title>Logitech MX Revolution in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update:  Froese has written a tool to control the wheel-click behavior.  See comment #6 below.
I picked up a Logitech MX Revolution mouse, sort of unsure of whether I could get all its functions working under SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.
The mouse is nice, and lends itself quite well to xgl and compiz.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/09/27/logitech-mx-revolution-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>More Wacky Japanese TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on digg.  Further evidence of just how crazy Japanese TV is:
Toilet Prank
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/06/28/more-wacky-japanese-tv/</link>
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		<title>Kudlow&#8217;s brilliance strikes again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow wrote a great piece on National Review Online, and is right on the money, as usual.  Unfortunately, it looks like those who engage in class warfare were successful this time around.  What were lawmakers thinking when they set up the death tax to go away in 2010, and then come back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/06/09/kudlows-brilliance-strikes-again/</link>
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		<title>Williams on the Hayden nomination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Williams, one of my favorite political science professors from Loyola, just wrote an op-ed on General Hayden&#8217;s nomination to be Director of Central Intelligence.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/05/18/williams-on-the-hayden-nomination/</link>
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		<title>iTunes and XBOX 360</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently acquired an XBOX 360, and the first (and only) thing that annoyed me was that I could not use the playlists or ratings from iTunes without somehow transferring them to Windows Media Player on my PC. It was cumbersome, at best. I suppose I can&#8217;t expect a Microsoft product to natively work with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/05/18/itunes-and-xbox-360/</link>
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		<title>Spamhaus &amp; egregious over-broad blacklisting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is day 12 of not being able to send e-mail to any host that subscribes to the Spamhaus SBL.  It seems that their policy is to not only blacklist the IP addresses of known spammers, but also entire ranges belonging to ISPs that host spammers and fail to remediate the situation properly.
In my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/03/06/spamhaus-egregious-over-broad-blacklisting/</link>
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		<title>Back in Provo&#8230;again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to feel like I live here &#8211; I was here last week Wednesday through Friday, then was on a 6am flight this morning to come back.  We flew right over the Novell campus, which was a first for me (below is a bad Treo picture of it).

It is pretty here this time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/02/27/back-in-provoagain/</link>
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		<title>Single issue wing-nuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the debate and cloture vote prior to Judge Samuel Alito&#8217;s now-certain confirmation to the Supreme Court tomorrow, I am once again struck by the extreme left-wing, and it&#8217;s zeal over one issue.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/01/30/single-issue-wing-nuts/</link>
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		<title>Kook Lefties are way out of touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I look at kook left-wing sites like Daily Kos (I was hesitant to even link to it, but maybe you&#8217;ll also get some enjoyment out of it!).
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/01/27/kook-lefties-are-way-out-of-touch/</link>
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		<title>Self-heating coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my Christmas gifts was a case of self-heating coffee beverages, from a company called OnTech.

Basically, you pull a cover off the bottom of the cup and press a button that initiates an exothermic reaction, heating the liquid inside in about 5 minutes.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/01/17/self-heating-coffee/</link>
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		<title>Google Earth menaced by WW2 bomber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is from The Register.

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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/01/09/google-earth-menaced-by-ww2-bomber/</link>
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		<title>WordPress 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 2.0 is out, which means I&#8217;ll have to think about upgrading soon.  More importantly, I need to test the plugins I&#8217;ve written against 2.0.
Update:
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/01/04/wordpress-20/</link>
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		<title>150 gigabits?!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago&#8217;s own Fermilab recently worked with some other labs to break the world network speed record, reaching 150 gigabits per second.
Here&#8217;s how fast that is, according to the article:  you could download 130 DVDs in one minute!
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/12/08/150-gigabits/</link>
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		<title>End of the week reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good column from Larry Kudlow on the president&#8217;s progress this week from a PR perspective:
Larry Kudlow on the Economy, Iraq, and George W. Bush on NRO Financial
I agree with him that President Bush had a good week &#8211; the speech at the Naval Academy was long overdue, as many have said.  There was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/12/02/end-of-the-week-reading/</link>
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		<title>A Yam is not a Yam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were having a discussion this morning about the difference between Yams and Sweet Potatoes.  The bottom line:  usually anything you get in the U.S. is a sweet potato, even if they call it a Yam.  Check this out if you want a real scientific breakdown.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/11/24/a-yam-is-not-a-yam/</link>
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		<title>Expanding the Firefox bookmarks toolbar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to figure this out for a long time &#8211; how to get more than one bookmarks toolbar in Firefox.  This change allows the toolbar to grow to more than one row, which is just as good:  Expanding the Bookmarks Toolbar
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/11/10/expanding-the-firefox-bookmarks-toolbar/</link>
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		<title>sqlite RPM for sles-9-x86_64</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the deal.  Hula is starting to depend on mono, but when you try to install mono-complete, you may get a dependency error on libsqlite.so.0.  I could not find an RPM that provides libsqlite.so.0 &#8211; only libsqlite3.so.0.  In order to get the mono RPMs to install cleanly, I ended up building my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/11/09/sqlite-rpm-for-sles-9-x86_64/</link>
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		<title>How to Manage Geeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently dredged up this article on How to Manage Geeks, which I had never even seen before.  The author is none other than ex-Novell CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt.
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		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/11/07/how-to-manage-geeks/</link>
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		<title>What have I been missing?  6.8 Megabits!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally took the plunge.  After 4 years of being with a fixed-wireless ISP, I decided to switch to cable.  The only reason I had hesitated at all was that I obviously need a static IP address to host my own e-mail, web, and other services.
What I ended up with is Comcast Workplace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/11/06/what-have-i-been-missing-68-megabits/</link>
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		<title>AJ and the Apple Orchard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend we took AJ to an apple orchard for the first time.  AppleHoller is just across the Wisconsin border, in Sturtevant.  They have about 25 different kinds of apples growing there, and all kinds of other stuff, including critters like this:

We picked three bushels, including about a half bushel that AJ had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/10/18/aj-and-the-apple-orchard/</link>
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		<title>Homer gives up beer and bacon?!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on the Fox Report tonight, then found these sites.  The Simpsons is soon to debut in Arab countries via satellite network MBC.  There will be a few changes, however:

Homer will be called Omar

He won&#8217;t drink beer

He won&#8217;t eat bacon or hot dogs

He won&#8217;t go to Moe&#8217;s bar

The show will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/10/14/homer-gives-up-beer-and-bacon/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting stuff out there today:
This bird flu thing is getting scarier every day.  Today I heard on the radio that O&#8217;Hare airport has set up a quarantine center for international passengers who arrive with bird-flu symptoms.  It seems inevitable that will happen in the not-too-distant future.  I came across a column [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2005/10/14/todays-reading/</link>
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