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		<title>Car Update Acquired!</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20081029/car-update-acquired</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 7, 2004, I bought my 2004 Honda Civic LX sedan from Honda of Hollywood. I put down 3500USD, got a 2.9% APR, and received a total financing cost of 1571.70USD. It was my very first car purchase. I went at it alone, and needless to say, I got slammed hard. On July 25, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phone Upgrade Acquired!</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20080817/phone-upgrade-acquired</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nokia 3588i, activated on January 24, 2004, was my first mobile phone. At the time, I was working at THQ, Inc. as a game tester with the hope of working for one of their subsidiary game development houses and making it big at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Unfortunately, being a game tester who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gym? I Hardly Know Him</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20080410/gym-i-hardly-know-him</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the definition of &#8220;computer specialist&#8221; can be stretched to include software engineers, then software engineering qualifies for Heather Boerner&#8217;s list of America&#8217;s Surprisingly Unhealthy Jobs. Though Boerner states that computer specialist jobs are associated with issues of ergonomics and her article appears to equate unhealthiness merely with injury, it is worth considering a sedentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code Refinement</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20071011/code-refinement</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday is an opportunity to learn something new. Today, I learned how to set the tab width for vi (set tabstop=2) while trying to format the picture for this blog entry, for example. Daily learning is a form of personal refinement. Accumulated knowledge allows people to do things better. If the lesson relates to development, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goal-based Learning</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070918/goal-based-learning</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fucking education you could&#8217;ve got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.&#8221; &#8211;Will, Good Will Hunting My experience in college can be summed up as an ongoing lesson on learning. College was an opportunity to learn how to learn. I am employing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things for a Geek to Do</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070219/things-for-a-geek-to-do</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve been busy with a lot of work lately, I have been thinking during my commute to work about what I would like to do if I had more time. Here&#8217;s a list of things that I would like to accomplish in the first half of 2007: Investigate the use of Logical Volume Manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resisting the Allure of Instant Gratification</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070204/resisting-the-allure-of-instant-gratification</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister received a 25USD Borders gift card that she intended to use for another medical dictionary. I persuaded her to regift it to me, and I have been carrying it for weeks. I&#8217;ve been to Borders multiple times, and only the appeal of instant gratification kept me coming back. I have been wanting Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling with Perfectionism</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070124/struggling-with-perfectionism</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question about my greatest weakness has been raised in almost all my job interviews. Many books on job interviews discourage people from construing a strength as a weakness. One of my greatest weaknesses is my drive for perfection. When I perform a task, I want its completion to approximate perfection. Paying attention to details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hint for Enhancing Software Dev Agility</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070116/a-hint-for-enhancing-software-dev-agility</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just know that when it comes down to the wire, it&#8217;s just garbage in and garbage out. Reducing the implementation of software to the practice of accepting data from somewhere and preparing it to be used elsewhere has certainly helped me hit the ground running and get up to speed with existing projects.]]></description>
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		<title>On the Poor Showing of US ACM Contestants</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20060426/on-the-poor-showing-of-us-acm-contestants</link>
		<comments>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20060426/on-the-poor-showing-of-us-acm-contestants#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post on slashdot.org notes The Continuing American Decline in CS as evidenced by the dismal performances of US students at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The original story at businessweek.com suggests that the poor showing of American students at the competition is A Red Flag in the Brain Game. Of particular interest are [...]]]></description>
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