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	<description>Matters of the Smith Atwood Family</description>
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		<title>Learning Stick Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my own thoughts about learning stick shift. Kelsey learned from me, though there&#8217;s no true teacher aside from experience. I think there are two essential tricks to learning a stick shift: 1. Practice Makes Perfect. It&#8217;s muscle and reflex training, not head training. It takes time to get the feel of the clutch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Arch-style Bridge for Hastings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MNDOT has finally announced the design for the replacement bridge over the Mississippi in Hastings. It&#8217;s an arch-style bridge, repeating the past two river bridge designs. The design cost came out about $100 MILLION lower than the MNDOT estimate. I suspect this is because the arch isn&#8217;t quite as huge as we might have expected. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A .net child seduced by &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cousin Jon sent me this terrific video clip. Another lob in the war of Microsoft vs everyone else&#8230; And, by the way, here&#8217;s another he forwarded &#8211; edited entirely with an iPhone&#8230; &#8220;Apple of My Eye&#8221; &#8211; an iPhone 4 film &#8211; UPDATE: Behind the scenes footage included from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Leopard Upgrade &#8211; Thumbs Up (Mostly)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FrameMaker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally upgraded my Mac Pro to Snow Leopard. I give it a &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; because it was a smooth, trouble free process. It took about an hour, and required almost no input from me. [UPDATED 6/29, 6/30] Aside from a stability improvement, I saw no immediate, significant changes either good or bad. That was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Upgrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just upgraded to WordPress 3 and to whatever the latest version of Gallery 2 might be. Both went &#8220;sort of&#8221; smoothly, though there was a bit of gear grinding to get the two to work together. Oddly enough, once everything was properly set, I just had to be patient and various problems disappeared on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-Ray will be a niche market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago we bought a Sony BDP-BX2 Blu-ray player. I duly upgraded my Netflix account to send us Blu-ray disks. A couple of months later I switched it back to DVD-only rentals. I had two reasons to move back to DVDs: Blu-ray just isn&#8217;t that much better than DVDs. Maybe I&#8217;ve ruined by eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another reason to shun HP products</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About ten years ago I discovered that I couldn&#8217;t use more than one HP product on my computer at a time. I had an HP printer and I&#8217;d bought an HP scanner. But the driver software couldn&#8217;t co-exist on the same computer. At least, HP declared they couldn&#8217;t, and they didn&#8217;t care. They still don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing the Hastings Star Gazette</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, no, the Star Gazette newspaper is still there. At least, we&#8217;ve received recent issues. But the Star Gazette on-line version has gone through a misguided makeover. I remember being to reach articles just by clicking. It doesn&#8217;t work any more. Clearly this is a recent change. The site has a FAQ section that shows [...]]]></description>
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