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		<title>There&#8217;s a present for that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Christmas has come and gone, I&#8217;m back home for the holidays. Which, of course, means the standard gift exchange with my family.
I got my dad an iPod car charger, my mom a gift certificate to Belk&#8217;s, and my sister&#8217;s family a gift certificate to the bowling alley. My dad and I also teamed up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2009/12/26/908/</link>
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		<title>Fun with 64-bit Windows and Boot Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, on a whim, I decided to try installing a 64-bit version of Windows 7 onto my MacBook. And as soon as I tried to load the Boot Camp drivers, I immediately got an error message claiming that &#8220;Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model.&#8221;
Turns out that 64-bit Windows is only supported on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2009/11/06/901/</link>
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		<title>Bee-lated congratulations&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, I&#8217;m a couple days late with this, but anyway&#8230; as a former spelling bee geek (it&#8217;s been 12 years, believe it or not), I have to post this&#8230;
Belated congrats to Kavya Shivashankar, winner of the 2009 National Spelling Bee— and, for that matter, to everyone else who made it into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2009/05/30/897/</link>
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		<title>Yet another random administrative note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who&#8217;ve come here looking for the Forums section that used to be on my site, I&#8217;ve closed it&#8212; there wasn&#8217;t enough interest in it; the one section that did get posts (&#8220;Music in Commercials&#8221;) served the same purpose as Adtunes.com, which I also participate in; and besides, I&#8217;ve been so busy with grad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2009/05/19/891/</link>
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		<title>Scammy Facebook Ad Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just checking up on Facebook, and this ad turned up on the margin:

The first thing I noticed was the badly Photoshopped hands. (MY HANDS R PASTEDE ON YAY?)
But then I looked closer. I&#8217;m not very good at recognizing faces, but having watched SNL&#8217;s Weekend Update quite a bit, I thought that the set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2009/02/11/876/</link>
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		<title>The Obligatory Presents Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re wondering what I ended up with for Christmas:

From my parents:

A 32&#8243; flat-screen HDTV. Niiice. And yes, it does have an SVGA port to plug in my MacBook, as well as two HDMI ports.
Wii Fit. Yes, they actually managed to find a copy. (And wow, I&#8217;m a good bit out of shape&#8230;looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/12/25/868/</link>
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		<title>How bad UI design caused me to withdraw an extra $80</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was at the ATM today, wanting to withdraw $20 for a quick lunch.  I went up to the ATM, inserted my card, and, as usual, saw the following screen.

And, again as usual, I entered my PIN, pressed &#8220;Fast Cash&#8221;, and waited.  After a few seconds, the machine didn&#8217;t seem to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/11/08/863/</link>
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		<title>Garden path sentence of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, if you&#8217;re not familiar with what a garden path sentence is, go read the Wikipedia article on them.
Now that that&#8217;s out of the way&#8230; this was an actual headline in today&#8217;s issue of USA Today (though interestingly, it was reworded in the web version), of which I&#8217;ve reproduced the spacing exactly as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/10/28/860/</link>
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		<title>Yet another programming font hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the entirety of Google&#8217;s Android phone OS has finally been released under the Apache license, I have modified the Droid Sans Mono font so as to include a more easily distinguishable zero, for the benefit of my fellow programmers.  I thought it was a great-looking font for the most part, but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/10/22/854/</link>
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		<title>SELECT * FROM otaku WHERE geekiness &gt; 9000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is why I should not be allowed to buy action figures at Anime Weekend Atlanta:

For those unfamiliar with that character, that&#8217;s Yuki Nagato from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.  She&#8217;s an alien android who can communicate with the universe&#8217;s Data Entity and alter the state of the universe via rapidly spoken SQL statements. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zone38.net/2008/09/22/851/</link>
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