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		<title>Too Serene</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2012/01/07/too-serene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good book has no ending ~R.D. Cumming. I was recently sucked into watching all thirteen episodes of Firefly again. This is only the third or fourth time I&#8217;ve watched the entire series despite being a huge fan. Honestly, I had forgotten how great the writing and acting was. I finished off the marathon viewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Clock to Tick</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/12/19/another-clock-to-tick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last year or so we&#8217;ve been using a toddler alarm clock for Zachary. Since he can&#8217;t read time, a standard clock isn&#8217;t all that helpful. A toddler alarm clock uses a stop light (red/green) to indicate if you should be sleeping or awake. It&#8217;s pretty ingenious and it&#8217;s been somewhat successful. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halo old friend</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/11/29/halo-old-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I received my copy of Halo Combat Evolved : Anniversary, which is basically the original Halo with updated graphics/sound/etc. As many who know me, I&#8217;m a Halo fanatic (I have the tattoo* to prove it). I had a habit of kicking everyone&#8217;s ass it Halo (and Halo 2) back in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See ya Steve</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/08/24/see-ya-steve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With everything going on in the world, it might seem silly to make note of Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple. The fact is though, this is a man, who&#8217;s leadership took a company 90 days from bankruptcy to one of the most powerful companies in the world in just under fifteen years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zee&#8217;s Jeep Bed</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/20/zees-jeep-bed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I actually finished a project in less than a month, and an ambitious project at that. Zee&#8217;s Jeep Bed went from materials purchase to complete and in-place in four weeks. I didn&#8217;t keep track of materials cost, but it was fairly inexpensive. Four sheets of MDF, Four 2x4s, about 12 feet of poplar hardwood, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrid, I don&#8217;t think so.</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/18/hybrid-i-dont-think-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/18/hybrid-i-dont-think-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a followup to my complaint about MPG and how Hybrids don&#8217;t make financial sense, there&#8217;s an aspect to the argument that I didn&#8217;t cover which is environmental impact. Of course our current &#8220;lineup&#8221; of vehicles is not great for the environment. Driving my Subaru 15k miles each year puts 9.3 tons of CO2 into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, don&#8217;t talk to me about life.</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/16/life-dont-talk-to-me-about-life-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistically, according to the chart at http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html, a 39 year old has just under 39 years of life remaining. If I were to have a crisis, now would be the time to do it. On the up-side, we don&#8217;t simply subtract years off as we get older. Statistically our life expectancy extends as we live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our legal system, full of liars and cheats.</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/09/our-legal-system-full-of-liars-and-cheats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/09/our-legal-system-full-of-liars-and-cheats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October, on my way into work, I was pulled over for “driving too fast for conditions”, a $127 fine. Instead of paying the fine I decided to fight it, because I thought that I was in the right. In the end, it really doesn’t matter. I suppose anyone who decides to fight an infraction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m feeling gassy</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/05/02/im-feeling-gassy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, after ringing up $62 filling up the Subaru I started to wonder how high gas prices would have to be to seriously consider buying a new car (and shudder a hybrid*). The Subaru has two strikes against it. First the AWD affects the gas milage quite a bit. If I do a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A funny thing happened on the way to the Camera shop.</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/04/18/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-camera-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driestone.net/2011/04/18/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-camera-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I posted about picking up a Fuji Finepix F30 and how great the camera was, even compared to newer cameras. I don&#8217;t know what happened, but the camera ended up broken and couldn&#8217;t be recovered. Although I was tempted to get another, instead I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1. The Lumix is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally arrived at the island</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/04/10/finally-arrived-at-the-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after moving into our house my parents offered us a nice-sized butcher&#8217;s block from the house they were renovating. I don&#8217;t remember if we had an idea of what to do with it at the time, but we took it. In early 2009 we decided that we&#8217;d build a center island. As a test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s no Firefly&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/03/24/its-no-firefly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished the 13 episode season of Day Break. Apparently it was on ABC in 2006 (although I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing about it before), and was canceled after 6 episodes. I have to say that it is truly a shame. Taye Diggs stars as police detective Brett Hopper, whom when first we meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neglecting the Links</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/02/07/neglecting-the-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, those links on the right side of my blog are neglected. Before today they haven&#8217;t been touched in years (that&#8217;s plural years). In internet time, they are ancient fossils. No doubt about it, many were outdated and no longer in existence. So I thought I&#8217;d clean house a bit. Since my area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch your language</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/02/02/watch-your-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m just getting old, but lately I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of LOL-speak showing up in professional emails. The most egregious was a &#8220;peer&#8221; vendor (i.e. we both worked as a vendor for the same client), who on multiple occasions would use &#8220;u&#8221; for &#8220;you&#8221; in emails to me. We are not friends and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Gervais</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/01/27/ricky-gervais/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does Ricky Gervais continue to acting and comedy gigs? Does anyone think that he&#8217;s actually funny?]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade your iPhone app</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/01/21/upgrade-your-iphone-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a UI/UX designer for the iPhone and iPad, I pretty much live and breathe iOS interfaces. Recently I was reading Matt Rix&#8217;s Blog, and I read his post on game makeovers and I had a few thoughts. I&#8217;m going to offer my skills as a designer to those small iOS developers out there, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s be Clear</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2011/01/06/lets-be-clear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I setup Clear WiMax for our internet and phone, replacing AT&#038;T DSL and POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service). WiMax is 4G cellular service and the pricing is pretty competitive. My big issue is that East Berlin seems to be in a hole, and the best DSL service I could get was about 1.2Mbit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making your own soda</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/12/31/making-your-own-soda-that-may-actually-be-good-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driestone.net/2010/12/31/making-your-own-soda-that-may-actually-be-good-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I have made the commitment to reduce my caffeine intake, and although drinking water is not distasteful, I don&#8217;t love it so I wanted to find something that met with my new diet. I switched to diet soda probably four years ago, specifically Diet Dr. Pepper. To be honest it didn&#8217;t take long for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling the headache</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/12/26/battling-the-headache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a very long time now, close to half of my life, I&#8217;ve battled headaches in one form or another. It seems as though each time I find a &#8220;cure&#8221; something new comes out of the woodwork to kick my ass. Starting about three or four years ago I would start getting a muscle ache [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickly creating non-retina graphics for the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/12/06/quickly-creating-non-retina-graphics-for-the-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driestone.net/2010/12/06/quickly-creating-non-retina-graphics-for-the-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrieStone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The down-side to the iPhone 4&#8242;s retina display is that developers need to now create two sets of graphics for their apps. For apps to take advantage of the higher resolution iPhone 4 screen, they need to create double-sized graphics saved with an &#8220;@2x&#8221; at the end of the name. Moving forward, creating those double-sized [...]]]></description>
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