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	<title>Quixotic Extropicist &#187; Society</title>
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	<description>The supposedly futile struggle against chaos - with a focus on Linux migration, security, corrosion engineering, surviving cancer, website construction, and life...</description>
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		<title>Funny APoD</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2007/03/25/funny-apod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to laugh at today&#8217;s Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA&#8217;s daily picture and &#8220;brief explanation written by a professional astronomer&#8221;, usually chock full of links. The picture was the famous 1972 pic of the Earth, as taken from Apollo 17. The write-up concludes: &#8230; Earth supports a large variety of life forms, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading &#8220;The Jesus Myth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/17/reading-the-jesus-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two weekends, I had picked up what turned out to be a very interesting book &#8211; The Jesus Myth by George A. Wells. It was my first real exposure to the position of mythologists. It&#8217;s an impressively scholarly work, but as I picked my way through it (sometimes I had to jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update or Die</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/02/update-or-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unnecessary software updates are bad. If it&#8217;s not a security fix, leave it for the next major release. But aside from feature bloat, the Powers That Be have been steadily incorporating such nasties as DRM into &#8220;our&#8221; computers (see &#8220;Who Owns Your Computer&#8220;) through the update process, and have realized that such methods give the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Owns Your Computer?</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/05/04/who-owns-your-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 01:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t get the point of why I&#8217;m concerned about computer privacy and security, and am so quick to look for non-Microsoft alternatives, especially open-source operating systems and software, Bruce Schneier has written a brief essay that beautifully summarizes the dangerous trends: When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/10/research-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent post I casually mentioned that it was a good idea to search your own name in the Internet search engines every so often, so you can find out what&#8217;s out there about you and available to all. You want to do at least the top three &#8211; Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Coincidentally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TaxAct User Review and Ethereal Report</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/05/taxact-user-review-and-ethereal-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/05/taxact-user-review-and-ethereal-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I tauted the TaxAct Standard version as free (as in beer) software for computing and e-filing federal tax returns, even if you didn&#8217;t qualify for free filing with IRS e-file partners. I discussed my security concerns, the software EULA and website privacy policy, and my assessment was that the software was free because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picked Up a Book</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/03/picked-up-a-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I got into this website stuff and the baby came, I haven&#8217;t been reading much, not like the novel-a-week I used to go through. But a couple of days ago I realized that I don&#8217;t actually have to watch that tape of Barney with him, especially for the second and third time, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less vs. Fewer Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/29/less-vs-fewer-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/29/less-vs-fewer-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend took pleasure in pointing out that I used a grammatical construct in my last post that I had criticized in the post immediately prior. At least he thinks I did. Clearly, he didn&#8217;t bother the read the supporting link that I posted: According to this rule, less should modify plural nouns only when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Items or Fewer</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/27/10-items-or-fewer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/27/10-items-or-fewer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those little annoying things to me that even I will admit is pretty inconsequential, but I hate seeing the supermarket checkout lanes marked &#8220;10 items or less.&#8221; Less is used to indicate a smaller amount when the quantity cannot be enumerated. When a number is given, as in the supermarket sign, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Day 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/26/australia-day-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/01/26/australia-day-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Australia Day &#8211; a day of national celebration in my birth land. It&#8217;s been 218 years since the arrival of the first colonists. I take pride in having been born Australian &#8211; everyone should feel proud of their birthplace &#8211; but as an immigrant and naturalized citizen of the United States of America, [...]]]></description>
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