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		<title>Wherever the Wind Blows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winds of change have scattered my team among several companies. The cohesive forces experienced between team members at my previous company have resulted in groups of people finding themselves working in new environments with others of our previous company. Two former teammates have relocated to a semiconductor company, and two others took up positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging a Book by Its Table of Contents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a draft of a book on programming languages, which from a look over the table of contents seems to cover topics for a compiler book. Robert Harpers&#8217;s home page links to his book, Practical Foundations for Programming Languages. Whenever I find the time to read up on programming languages and compiler, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Thanksgiving Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 has been a very busy, yet brutal, year. I have used more vacation hours this year than any of my previous years of employment. By leveraging the Thanksgiving weekend, I am able to have nine contiguous days of rest from work at the cost of three vacation days. As is the case for sleep, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Update Acquired!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents gave me the Swiss Army Active Original with Red Bezel (#24221) as a gift for high school graduation, which had a retail price of 155USD at the time of purchase and is now sold by authorized dealers for 195USD. The Original features a Swiss analog quartz movement and scratch-resistant mineral crystal. Its strap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009Q2 in a Word: Busy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a word, one could say that I have been &#8220;busy.&#8221; I was unable to find time for my blog during a whole quarter of the year. In one of those weeks, I flew from LAX to Dulles, Geneva, Paris, and Frankfurt. During another week in San Mateo, I was at the wedding of a [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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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