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	<title>Letters to the World</title>
	<link>http://blog.zone38.net</link>
	<description>Random ramblings from a relatively rational recluse.</description>
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		<title>Why good test cases are important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was cashing in some savings bonds earlier today at a bank which shall remain unnamed, and noticed a rather serious oversight in the design of the form they used for this task.
The form was one of those where they give you a limited number of character spaces to write things; I assume it&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/07/08/848/</link>
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		<title>Tweet, tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any readers using Twitter? I just joined it because, hey, I&#8217;m bored. :-p
If anyone actually wants to follow me, it&#8217;s the same username I use everywhere else.
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		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/07/04/847/</link>
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		<title>Stupid scammer search-and-replace tricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest phishing attempt sent to my UGA account has the following as one of the lines that&#8217;s supposed to be filled out:
&#8220;Country or TerUGAory : .. &#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;
Why do I have the feeling this scam was originally intended for students at the Rochester Institute of Technology?
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		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/05/29/846/</link>
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		<title>Epic phisher phail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got what may be the most inept phishing e-mail I&#8217;ve ever seen.  And I&#8217;m going to quote it below just to show how absolutely mind-bogglingly bad it is.

From: info.accountwebupdate@googlemail.com
Subject: WebNews Email Account Update
Date: April 25, 2008 10:41:02 AM EDT
To: &#8220;undisclosed-recipients:&#8221;@smtp.ksu.edu.sa
Reply-To: info.accountwebupdate@googlemail.com
Dear uga.edu Webmail Subscriber,
This message is from uga.edu messaging center to all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/04/25/845/</link>
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		<title>Four capital letters printed in gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered the music video for Justice&#8217;s song &#8220;DVNO&#8221;, and it&#8217;s&#8230; a typographical feast, which I recommend to anyone who&#8217;s a typography geek.
But what&#8217;s particularly great is that pretty much everything in the video was inspired by TV and movie studio logos of the past.  And as an Aspie who used to obsess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/04/03/844/</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Bad CAPTCHA Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just trying to register for a forum today, and came across a CAPTCHA that looked like this (this isn&#8217;t the one that I actually failed, but it was generated soon thereafter):

Seems pretty easy, right?
Only one problem:  it&#8217;s case-sensitive.  That is, uppercase and lowercase matter.
&#8220;X&#8221; and &#8220;x&#8221; look virtually alike, except for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/02/26/843/</link>
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		<title>The (belated) annual gift exchange post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas has passed, and my traditional blog entry on the family&#8217;s gift exchanges still hasn&#8217;t been posted.  That&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve all been preoccupied with said gifts.
For those who aren&#8217;t really interested in personal stuff like this, feel free to skip this entry.  
As a graduate student, I didn&#8217;t exactly have a lot to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2007/12/26/842/</link>
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		<title>Bad behavior from Bad Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shows how often I update my blog here.
Turns out that, because of a glitch in the &#8220;Bad Behavior&#8221; plugin that I have installed here to counteract spambots, everyone was being prevented from commenting.
And because I post so little, I didn&#8217;t learn of this bug until 20 days after it was discovered, when I tried to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2007/12/26/841/</link>
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		<title>Well, at least I&#8217;ll have *soft* clothes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gah.  I just realized that, in an utterly spaced-out moment, I accidentally bought fabric softener rather than laundry detergent at the grocery store last week.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, the packages for Publix&#8217;s generic brands of fabric softener and detergent, both of which are available in unscented form, looked almost identical&#8230; so it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2007/11/17/840/</link>
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		<title>My Mac has changed its spots (or, Alphonse has a new kitty)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So yay. I&#8217;ve picked up a copy of Mac OS X Leopard from the UGA bookstore and installed on my PowerBook tonight.
Observations so far:

Archive and Install worked much better than I expected. All my stuff, even all the applications I&#8217;ve installed, is still there; the only thing that was really affected was what I&#8217;ve compiled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2007/10/28/839/</link>
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