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		<title>Reasons I won&#8217;t get an iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many, but here are a few. It&#8217;s an Apple product, and these days, buying anything from Apple seems to mean you&#8217;re surrendering your ability to think independently about the true quality and value of a product. There&#8217;s absolutely nothing I can do on an iPad that I can&#8217;t do on my laptop. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/05/01/reasons-i-wont-get-an-ipad</link>
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		<title>Sugar Dispenser, I found you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Starbucks in University Village uses sugar dispensers.  It&#8217;s bliss.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/04/03/sugar-dispenser-i-found-you</link>
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		<title>Sugar dispenser, I miss you (AKA, I hate sugar packets!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s time for a rant.  Why, may I ask, have seemingly all the coffee shops in Seattle decided to abandon the convenience and practicality of the sugar dispenser?  Why have they chosen to dole out sugar in teeny-tiny packets that take forever to collect, open, throw away, and otherwise use?  What is behind this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/03/21/sugar-dispenser-i-miss-you-aka-i-hate-sugar-packets</link>
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		<title>Olympics Closing Ceremony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a bit of a tradition for me to blog about the Olympics closing ceremony.  Despite feeling particularly incensed by NBC&#8217;s coverage of these Olympics, I definitely still feel a sense of melancholy to see the Olympics go away after having their company for the past two weeks.  These Olympics were particularly memorable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/02/28/olympics-closing-ceremony</link>
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		<title>Getting into the Olympic spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost time&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/02/13/getting-into-the-olympic-spirit</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl was fun&#8230; and avast!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t updated the blog in a while, and the Super Bowl is as good a topic as any!  So, this was definitely one of the most exciting and action-packed Super Bowls for me in recent history, right up there with and likely exceeding the 2008 Giants-Patriots game.  I was actually rooting for the Colts going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/02/07/super-bowl-was-fun-and-avast</link>
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		<title>No more weird characters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to report I&#8217;ve solved the odd database issue I was experiencing.  Sadly, I don&#8217;t think I can go into much detail about what exactly I did; I am just no MySQL wizard, and I placed complete trust and confidence in the expertise of others.  I do know it had something to do with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2010/01/04/no-more-weird-characters</link>
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		<title>WordPress 2.9 and MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can see, there’s an oddity with various of my WordPress posts.  This is due to an apparent incompatibility or bug when upgrading from a MySQL 4 database to a MySQL 5 database. All of this hooplah was precipitated when I attempted to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.  WordPress told me, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2009/12/23/wordpress-2-9-and-mysql</link>
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		<title>Windows 7: Installation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now running two freshly installed copies of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit! As promised, here is an entry on my upgrade experience. Upgrade and Full Version Baloney First, a rant. It took me longer to decide how I was going to install Windows 7 than to actually install it. Although this delay was partly due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2009/11/15/windows-7-installation</link>
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		<title>Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 has been released into the wild, and I cannot wait to get my copies. I have an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional making its way through the mail that will be replacing Windows XP Professional on my desktop, and I will be upgrading my laptop to Windows 7 Home Premium (a free upgrade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assortmentstoday.com/2009/10/25/windows-7</link>
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