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		<title>How OK Go made their latest geek extravaganza</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete geek heaven.  Great band.  Great Rube Goldberg device.  4 videos describing the collaboration they put together. Must see, if you're a geek.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/ok-go-rube-goldberg/
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		<title>Consensus decision making &#8212; WORT-FM, 1975</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a piece by Jeff Lange in Volume One, Number Three of "Spread the WORT" -- the newsletter of WORT-FM (Madison, WI) just as it was going on the air in 1975.  I've always loved this description of the consensus decision-making process we used to run the station.  All due apologies to Pogo...
The big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing new life into the farm weather stations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a nice geek project over the weekend -- repairing the weather-stations here at the farm.  We've had a couple stations (one on the ridge, one in the valley) for a couple years.  I had this lash-up gizmo put together with a couple of machines, each talking to one weather station and then trading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughtful posts about ICANN Nairobi&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[... that really do a good job of summarizing the security situation and the dilemmas it poses.
Leading off with Michele Neylon's post which explains his reasons for skipping this meeting and the need for thoughtful discussion (comments are really good on all these posts by the way)
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2010/02/13/personal-reflections-on-icann-nairobi/
Maria Farrel posts a very balanced/detailed note about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Marriage Act &#8211; aimed at making loveless marriage illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from The Onion News Network
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_law_would_ban_marriages?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
Thanks for the tip Wayne!
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		<title>New volunteer job &#8212; 37-word long title</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domain names]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm thinking another fold-out business card may be required;
Volunteer 
Vice Chair of Finance and Operations (of the)
Commercial and Business Users Constituency (which is part of the)
Generic Name Supporting Organization (which is in turn part of the)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Can you see why ICANN has a bafflegab problem? 
I'm quite excited about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering why I voted Obama&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are links to his first State of the Union speech and the Q&#38;A portion of his remarks to the House Republicans two days later.  The real deal instead of the sound bites.  Hey, this guy's still got it for me.  Just sayin'...
State of the Union

Q&#38;A - Republican Caucus

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		<title>Bafflegab, the word of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah bafflegab.  A word steeped in tradition.  This word was invented in the early '50's by a fella named Milton A. Smith -- who received an award for inventing it.  At the awards ceremony, he was asked to define it.  here's his response;
"Multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapemeasure porn!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hm.  Cold day today.  Nothing much to do.  But I do own a tape measure just like the ones these guys are using...

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		<title>Upgrading Wordpress with a really old MySQL database</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know.  I should have upgraded MySQL long ago.  But I didn't realize how easy it was, so I put it off until... now.   The latest version of Wordpress (Wordpress 2.9) doesn't work on really old versions of MySQL like my ancient 4.0.27.  Further complicating things is the need to cut blogs and sites over [...]]]></description>
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