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	<description>My ranting about This Great Nation(tm)</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Link: How Videogames Blind Us With Science</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/videogames-ascience</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/videogames-ascience#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has an article:
How Videogames Blind Us With Science. It made my outlook on America that little bit better.
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		<title>Facebook Forgery</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/facebook-forgery</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/facebook-forgery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gotten several posts on my wall which link to false websites. These are most likely caused by the social enegineering attack Fanebook.com.
Check what you have posted on walls! If anything has been posted without your knowledge or consent, change your password.
For future protection, I strongly encourage you to switch to Firefox 3, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incremental Blogger: Microsoft needs an iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/incremental-blogger-microsoft-needs-an-iphone</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/incremental-blogger-microsoft-needs-an-iphone#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Loren Heiny of Incremental Blogger has a few words to say about Microsoft and iPhones. Specifically, he said that Microsoft needs to make an iPhone and could make a better one. Between the previous touch experience and they&#8217;re ability to create vibrant developer communities, Loren believes that Redmond could make a product that is, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Project: cropper</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/new-project-cropper</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/new-project-cropper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[glade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gtk]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[subversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Yet another utility in the subversion: cropper. It&#8217;s a simple app that allows you to crop images. That&#8217;s it. You load up and image, add a couple of boxes, and hit crop.
What you&#8217;ll need to run it:

Python 2.5
GLib
GTK+ (>=2.12)
Cairo
Glade
PyGObject
PyGTK
PyCairo
ImageMagick

Under Ubuntu (and probably Debian), you can use this line:

sudo apt-get install python2.5 python-gobject python-gtk2 python-cairo python-glade2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux on TC1000</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/linux-on-tc1000</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/linux-on-tc1000#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[tablet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linux compaq tc1000]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve decided to take another stab at getting Ubuntu running on the Compaq TC1000 with all the bells and whistles. For the most part, the community has pretty much figured all the hardware out. There remains just two huge question marks.

The three LEDs underneath the pen-activated buttons
The 3 rotation switches in the keyboard and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reactable</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/the-reactable</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/the-reactable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I haven&#8217;t posted in a while. I figured I&#8217;d do an update with a link to an interesting interface.
The Reactable is a music synthesis table. You control it by placing, moving, and spinning objects. It uses a multitouch surface which detects objects and fingers.
Some clips, which better describe it than words:

YouTube - reactable: basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Regional 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/boston-regional-2008</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/boston-regional-2008#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[FIRST]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Boston Regional was fun.
I volunteered as the Spare Parts attendant, my first year as a volunteer. They guy with the pink head behind the table? That was me.
Whenever I&#8217;ve gone to competitions previously, it&#8217;s always been as a busy, busy team member, either programming or as a driver. Volunteering shows another half of it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego on the Beach</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/lego-on-the-beach</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/lego-on-the-beach#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Engadget today has an article about a Technic Crab. Good stuff.
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		<title>PyCMS Update</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/pycms-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/pycms-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PyCMS is intermittently moving towards stability, completeness, and usefulness. I&#8217;ve actually started working on it again, and as of revision 44, most of the core functionality is implemented. (Core functionality being so basic that it&#8217;s implemented by the WSGI application class.) The exception is session handling.
Some functionality that needs to come soon:

Database
Configuration
Actually implementing the filters
Hooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a flash drive as /boot</title>
		<link>http://www.astro73.com/blog/using-a-flash-drive-as-boot</link>
		<comments>http://www.astro73.com/blog/using-a-flash-drive-as-boot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WPI gave students a free 128MB flash drive. I already have a 4GB flash drive, so I don&#8217;t need another one. My thought to do with it is to mount it internally and use it as my /boot partition.
Why would I do this? A speed boost at boot time a la Windows Vista. (Although I [...]]]></description>
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