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	<link>http://www.atld.org/blog</link>
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		<title>LASIK Part I.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I had LASIK surgery (today is Sunday evening). The past two days I&#8217;ve been functioning in a relatively normal manner, sans glasses. My eyesight so far is somewhere between good and excellent, disregarding some minor halos around lights at night. It varies a little, but otherwise is everything I could expect. I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=49</link>
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		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Capped internet and me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 7 months or so, its been known that my current ISP, Time Warner Cable, was investigating implementation of severe bandwidth caps on the internet services they provide. I&#8217;ve kept an eye on such news, as it would likely concern me greatly in the future were it to actually happen.
Here&#8217;s the numbers[1]:
&#8220;&#8230;tiers will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Trying out Twitter.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone Twitter app finally tipped the scales and got me curious, so I registered.
Maybe this will keep a lot of one line observations of mine off IRC.
http://twitter.com/sklnd
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		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Tethering the iPhone 3g with Linux.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The aspect of the iPhone that made me hesitate in buying one the most was losing my ability to gain internet connectivity on my laptop though my phone. I&#8217;ve used this when I&#8217;m out of town at times to get connectivity, and it&#8217;s been quite the handy tool when there are no wifi hotspots to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Unintended consequences.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a certain popular phone to replace my flaky blackberry. I have more Gs now. This device has a Assisted GPS functionality.  The first time I tried this feature out, it told me I was located somewhere near Dallas North Tollway and Keller Springs in Dallas, Texas.
This phone has never been to that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=31</link>
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		<title>More of the same.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to grab autotools so I could play in the source tree of a rather popular open source project. From their &#8220;Write Code&#8221; page:
Building is straight forward and familiar if you&#8217;ve ever built software on Linux before. We use the standard autotools suite for our build environment.
&#8220;So hey, I&#8217;ll go just apt-get install autotools! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Insanity.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone build me a (Debian &#124; Ubuntu) that doesn&#8217;t do the following:

Split packages into libfoo and libfoo-dev
Not install manpages when gcc is installed
Append absolutely absurd version strings to packages (nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-18.41)

If this crap keeps up, I&#8217;m going back to Slackware.
Unrelatedly, I filed a bug today.
EDIT: Alternatively, give me a giant checkbox at install time that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Bahamas.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the Bahamas sailing with mostly the same group as my Greece trip between May 3 and 14. I retrieved the tracklogs off of my GPS just now. Everything worth seeing around Abaco was close together, so we spent a week and a half covering a lot of the same water. The last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Ham radio.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week ago today I took the amateur radio technician exam, proctored by the Midland Amateur Radio Club. I passed, getting 32 of 34 questions correct. On Thursday, according to the &#8216;new hams&#8217; page on qrz.com, I was assigned the callsign KE5UAF by the FCC.
I was very hopeful that I would get my callsign by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atld.org/blog/?p=26</link>
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