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		<title>Bringing the &#8220;Aww&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is about as un-rant-ish as I think I&#8217;m capable of getting.  I received this picture in my e-mail recently, and it just melted my black little heart.  I&#8217;ll let the story tell itself:

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		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/03/bringing-the-aww/</link>
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		<title>We are Google, and we can kill you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay. I have a gmail account. The e-mail for this very domain name goes through a Google Apps server. Guess what my default browser home page is?  Yeah.
Hell, I use &#8220;Google&#8221; as a verb&#8230;don&#8217;t you?
On the other hand I passed on Wave, and will pass on Buzz.  I&#8217;m not opposed to them, really, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/03/we-are-google-and-we-can-kill-you/</link>
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		<title>I Sing the Praises of Akismet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a Wordpress blog?  Are you using the free Akismet plugin?  Why not?
This baby stops comment spam in its filthy tracks, my friends.  You need to get a (free) Wordpress API (they tell you how to do it, it&#8217;s easy), then you install the plugin&#8230;done.  It works so well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/i-sing-the-praises-of-akismet/</link>
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		<title>Spinny&#8217;s Take on the Facebook &#8220;Link Love&#8221; Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so anyone and everyone who is trying to run a business is wondering how the whole &#8220;social media&#8221; thing might help out&#8211;or should be IMNSDHO.  There is, however, a big potential down side to using such media for getting exposure for your business as I see it:  how do you avoid crossing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/277/</link>
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		<title>Saying Good-bye to Jerry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Wednesday was our literal Funeral for a Friend, as we bid our final farewells.  The funeral itself was, in my opinion, the best possible sort: brief and focused.  I&#8217;m not a fan of ceremony for ceremony&#8217;s sake.  A few of us spoke of Jerry, how we&#8217;ll remember him and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/saying-good-bye-to-jerry/</link>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Understand Grocery Stores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mission today:  pick up some lemonade&#8211;not just any lemonade, I was armed with a pair of specific brands from which to choose.
My arrival at the hub of all things that are wrong in the commercial world was uneventful: I scored a decent parking space, no one tried to run me over as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/i-dont-understand-grocery-stores/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer Must Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve done any web development more ambitious than a few text links, you have already long since run up against the problem of how Microsoft constantly fails to conform to standards.  For those of you who haven&#8217;t experienced the special joy of making otherwise correctly-coded web designs work in IE, you don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/internet-explorer-must-die/</link>
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		<title>Cancer Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No shit, right?  Who doesn&#8217;t know someone it&#8217;s taken?
It took a friend today, and the hurt&#8217;s still raw, and there&#8217;s nothing really to do about it but get over it.  Eventually.
Jerry was a great guy.  The harder you broke his balls the better he liked you for it, and he had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/cancer-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Jumping on the &#8220;Avatar&#8221; Bandwagon with Both Feet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, from what I hear there&#8217;s an explosion of videos on YouTube detailing how to paint yourself blue, and to otherwise try to look like a Na&#8217;vi character.  I figured that&#8217;s lame: on one hand, you ever tried washing all that shit off when you&#8217;re done?  Don&#8217;t even tell me you plan to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/jumping-on-the-avatar-bandwagon-with-both-feet/</link>
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		<title>Beware of Theft via &#8220;ATM Traps&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard about this today (and checked it out at Snopes), and it&#8217;s pretty bizarre.  There&#8217;s a way to set an &#8220;ATM Trap&#8221; such that it captures your card, and then the thief does a bit of social engineering to get your PIN, only to recover the card a short time later and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spinrants.spinland.biz/2010/02/beware-of-theft-via-atm-traps/</link>
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