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		<title>Poetry: Johnny Mercer&#8217;s &#8220;Early Autumn&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, these are beatiful, evocative lyrics by Johnny Mercer:
When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze
and touches with her hand the summer trees,
perhaps you&#8217;ll understand what memories I own.
There&#8217;s a dance pavilion in the rain all shuttered down,
a winding country lane all russet brown,
a frosty window pane shows me a town grown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2010/01/26/poetry-johnny-mercers-early-autumn/</link>
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		<title>The dangers of loyalty based on personality, not policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quotation is directly about politics, but it&#8217;s about anyone &#8211; or even anything &#8211; we emotionally attach ourselves to. 
From Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s &#8220;My friend the president&#8221; (Salon: 8 December 2009):
Those who venerated Bush because he was a morally upright and strong evangelical-warrior-family man and revere Palin as a common-sense Christian hockey mom are similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/12/19/the-dangers-of-loyalty-based-on-personality-not-policies/</link>
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		<title>Refusing a technology defines you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Sander Duivestein&#8217;s &#8220;Penny Thoughts on the Technium&#8221; (The Technium: 1 December 2009):

I‘m interested in how people personally decide to refuse a technology. I’m interested in that process, because I think that will happen more and more as the number of technologies keep increasing. The only way we can sort our identity is by not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/12/15/refusing-a-technology-defines-you/</link>
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		<title>A solution to two-way task list syncing on a Mac &amp; iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just published a page on my website about a solution I&#8217;ve found to an important issue: how to keep task lists on my Mac &#038; my iPhone that are synced. I used to use The Hit List, but the developer&#8217;s failure to come up with an iPhone solution has led me to abandon it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/12/11/a-solution-to-two-way-task-list-syncing-on-a-mac-iphone/</link>
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		<title>The Irish Church lies in creative &#8211; and evil &#8211; ways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Patsy McGarry&#8217;s &#8220;Church &#8216;lied without lying&#8217;&#8221; (Irish Times: 26 November 2009):
One of the most fascinating discoveries in the Dublin Archdiocese report was that of the concept of “mental reservation” which allows clerics mislead people without believing they are lying.
According to the Commission of Investigation report, “mental reservation is a concept developed and much discussed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/12/01/the-irish-church-lies-in-creative-and-evil-ways/</link>
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		<title>Lovely &#8211; Microsoft will let companies create ad-filled desktop themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Jeff Bertolucci&#8217;s &#8220;Windows 7 Ads: Microsoft Tarts Up the Desktop&#8221; (PC World: 13 November 2009):
Microsoft has announced plans to peddle Windows 7 desktop space to advertisers, who&#8217;ll create Windows UI themes&#8211;customized backgrounds, audio clips, and other elements&#8211;that highlight their brand, Computerworld reports. In fact, some advertiser themes are already available in the Windows 7 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/12/01/lovely-microsoft-will-let-companies-create-ad-filled-desktop-themes/</link>
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		<title>Linux Phrasebook in Russian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My book, Linux Phrasebook, which is still selling well &#038; still just as useful today as when it came out in 2006 (&#038; will be for another decade or two, given how consistent the Linux command line is), has been translated into Russian. You can find it at this Russian website, where I found out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/11/29/linux-phrasebook-in-russian/</link>
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		<title>Big security problems with the current way Firefox handles extensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Help Net Security&#8217;s &#8220;Zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox extensions discovered&#8221; (20 November 2009):
At the SecurityByte &#038; OWASP AppSec Conference in India, Roberto Suggi Liverani and Nick Freeman, security consultants with security-assessment.com, offered insight into the substantial danger posed by Firefox extensions.
Mozilla doesn&#8217;t have a security model for extensions and Firefox fully trusts the code of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/11/29/big-security-problems-with-the-current-way-firefox-handles-extensions/</link>
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		<title>SMS gateways you can use to get around high texting charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tired of high SMS charges? Use these SMS gateways, which translate emails &#038; IMs into SMS text messages &#8230; for free (well, to the sender, anyway &#8211; the recipient still has to pay). And when recipients reply, those replies come back to the sender in the same format; in other words, you email someone, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/11/21/sms-gateways-you-can-use-to-get-around-high-texting-charges/</link>
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		<title>Why we laugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Gene Weingarten&#8217;s &#8220;The Peekaboo Paradox: The strange secrets of humor, fear and a guy who makes big money making little people laugh&#8221; (The Washington Post: 22 January 2006):
Even before they respond to a tickle, most babies will laugh at peekaboo. It&#8217;s their first &#8220;joke.&#8221; They are reacting to a sequence of events that begins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.granneman.com/2009/11/06/why-we-laugh/</link>
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