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	<title>Quixotic Extropicist &#187; Software</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>My New Computer &#8211; Chock Full with Big-Brotherware</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/23/my-new-computer-chock-full-with-big-brotherware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/23/my-new-computer-chock-full-with-big-brotherware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to be real good with my new work computer &#8211; I got it on 07 June, and there&#8217;s all kinds of things that I haven&#8217;t installed on it that I used to consider basic necessities. Hell, I haven&#8217;t even installed Mozilla yet; but this restraint has given me the chance to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update or Die</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/02/update-or-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/07/02/update-or-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/05/04/who-owns-your-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 01:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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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>Start Stumping for Firefox?</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/05/02/start-stumping-for-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/05/02/start-stumping-for-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 18:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/05/02/start-stumping-for-firefox</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw an interesting item on Slashdot &#8211; someone is offering an IE-specific ad that only shows when your site visitor is using Internet Explorer, offers a link to download Firefox, and pays the site owner a bounty. Check out Explorer Destroyer. It comes in different levels, from gentle nag to barring IE users. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forward Links</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/forward-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/forward-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/forward-links</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it's a better approach to distinguish between when the blog pings itself back and when someone else comments or sends their own pingback or trackback. I'd calling these self-pingbacks "forward links", and although I have no desire to get into the trackback/pingback <a href="http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback">standard</a> debate to suggest making forward links identify themselves, I think we can do something with WordPress. I have in mind something that looks like this:

<blockquote>Date

<strong>Title</strong>
/ - -
 {Body of Post}
 - - /

Posted by Greg as {List of Categories} at {time}

<strong>Updates:</strong> (or "Forward Links" or something configurable)
{Date-time} {Forward Link, showing Title} {Excerpt/Summary?}
{Date-time} {Forward Link, showing Title}

{#} Comments (not including forward links)
</blockquote>
or the Forward Link section could look like this, relying purely on the linked post's title:
<blockquote>
<strong>Updates:</strong> {Forward Link}, {Forward Link}
</blockquote>]]></description>
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		<title>OpenID for WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/openid-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/openid-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/21/openid-for-wordpress</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Progress on the OpenID front in implementing an OID plugin, as reported by PhotoMatt. I found links to two additional projects in the comments, but the reviews aren&#8217;t encouraging. I&#8217;ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0, so I know some of this won&#8217;t work for me. I have my own OpenID profile, but so far I&#8217;ve only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mozilla Vulnerabilities Reported</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/18/mozilla-vulnerabilities-reported/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/18/mozilla-vulnerabilities-reported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/18/mozilla-vulnerabilities-reported</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To be fair, with all my MS Internet Explorer bashing, I have to pass on a report from US-CERT that Mozilla contains multiple vulnerabilities. All of them have been addressed, and the recommend solution is to upgrade. I&#8217;ve often expressed my preference for Mozilla over Internet Explorer, although I&#8217;m trying out Seamonkey on my Linux [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Agent Hijackers?</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/03/15/user-agent-hijackers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/03/15/user-agent-hijackers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/03/15/user-agent-hijackers</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, all kinds of people are familiar with browser hijackers &#8211; those malware applications that you can sometimes get just from visiting a site. I&#8217;ve seen browser hijackers that change your home page, add favorites, redirect your search results, and worse, but this morning I may have seen a twist that&#8217;s new to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malware/Virus Removal</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/26/malwarevirus-removal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/26/malwarevirus-removal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family &#038; Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/26/malwarevirus-removal</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I really went all out to clean up a Windows machine to remove malware and viruses. I forget my first virus (I&#8217;ve been downloading free software since 1983), but I remember my first spyware well &#8211; it was early 2001 when I noticed a new entry in my HKLM\&#x200B;Software\&#x200B;Microsoft\&#x200B;Windows\&#x200B;CurrentVersion\&#x200B;Run, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/02/05/taxcut-user-review-and-ethereal-report</guid>
		<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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