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	<title>dirk.watkins</title>
	<link>http://www.dirq.net</link>
	<description>the life and work of dirk watkins</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Introducing the Win-Pod</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2008/05/28/introducing-the-win-pod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Touch in Windows 7… looks familiar… (just a little bit bigger)windowsvistablog.com
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		<title>The Wisdom of Debugging</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2008/05/21/the-wisdom-of-debugging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2008/05/21/the-wisdom-of-debugging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.&#8221;
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		<title>Spreadsheet Puzzle Game</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2008/03/25/spreadsheet-puzzle-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a new game that I found that is pretty fun.  It takes the idea of an Excel spreadsheet and makes it fun.  You need to move around filled in cells and use warps to get to a goal. Kind of like Kwirk in a way except that you don&#8217;t move the boxes.  There is another Game Boy game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superfluous Mission Statements</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2008/03/13/superfluous-mission-statements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2008/03/13/superfluous-mission-statements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We exist to interactively leverage other's scalable resources so that we may endeavor to proactively leverage existing inexpensive intellectual capital ]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 8 Passes ACID2 Test</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2008/01/04/ie8-acid2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2008/01/04/ie8-acid2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 8 is supposed to be even more standards compliant than IE7 and the IE development team just passed the ACID2 test. Pretty cool.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Me</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/29/happy-birthday-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/29/happy-birthday-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my birthday today.  Happy birthday to me.
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		<title>I&#8217;ve got a Nikon camera.  I love to take photographs.</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/22/new-nikon-d80/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/22/new-nikon-d80/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to put the Kodachrome down to rest. I finally broke down, joined the digital revolution, and bought the Nikon D80 for myself.  It is close to my birthday after all.  So far I love the D80s big display on the back and the sharpness of the images.  I picked it over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Collective Environmental Consiousness</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/01/changing-collective-environmental-consiousness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2007/10/01/changing-collective-environmental-consiousness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We should make everyone's carbon footprint more prevalent in our day-to-day lives. Let's put our estimated carbon emissions on our gas recipts and utility bills and give our collective consciousness a little jog every time we fill up.]]></description>
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		<title>Take Solace Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2007/09/13/takesolace-blogwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2007/09/13/takesolace-blogwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cool sites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take Solace has jumped on the blogwagon!  We're going to write about our experiences creating our new album, our shows, and fans that we hang out with.  <a href="http://www.takesolace.com/blog/" title="Take Solace's Blog">www.takesolace.com/blog</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Zucchini Bread</title>
		<link>http://www.dirq.net/2007/09/12/moms-zucchini-bread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dirq.net/2007/09/12/moms-zucchini-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Watkins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recipe for my Mom's famous zucchini bread.]]></description>
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