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		<title>Running away to the circus&#8230; for a few minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I surprised Gina tonight with a trip to see Cirque du Soleil&#8217;s &#8220;Kooza,&#8221; which just opened in Portland. She didn&#8217;t figure it out until she saw the tent, so that&#8217;s nice: I kept throwing her off with false answers to her questions: Her: &#8220;Is this an event where I&#8217;ll have to introduce myself?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Oh, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2010/04/11/running-away-to-the-circus-for-a-few-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Open Source Bridge: Exciting the attentions of the Ingenious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading &#8220;The Invention of Air&#8221; by Steven Johnson, which talks a lot about Joseph Priestly&#8217;s experiments with electricity, discovery of oxygen, etc, and also about the scientific community of the time: Priestly had many interactions with (and got much encouragement from) Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson is also involved in the story, but I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2010/03/24/open-source-bridge-exciting-the-attentions-of-the-ingenious/</link>
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		<title>A Christmas tradition, from 1974</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Last year I started a new tradition and posted my Dad&#8217;s first &#8220;obscure&#8221; Christmas card from 1973; this year&#8217;s reposted card appears just in time, because technical difficulties knocked this site off the air for the last couple of weeks.
Here&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s 1974 card &#8211; it&#8217;s one of his easier ones, made even easier when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2009/12/23/a-christmas-tradition-from-1974/</link>
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		<title>Rails 2.3.3 + mocha = confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just updated a project to Rails 2.3.3 for the cool new &#8220;touch&#8221; feature, and saw here that I needed to update to Mocha 0.9.7. I did that, but found that my tests were failing &#8211; I got lots of NoMethodError: undefined method `stub&#8217; for #&#60;SomeTest:0&#215;7f2c1d921f80&#62; errors.
In my project, I&#8217;d declared my dependence on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2009/07/30/rails233mochaconfusion/</link>
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		<title>Automatic wireless goodness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often work in coffeeshops and other places that provide free wireless networks. Since anyone could sniff traffic sent over these networks, I&#8217;ve set up my own virtual private network at home so that my traffic will be encrypted before it leaves my laptop, then decrypted on a server at home and sent out from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2009/03/07/automatic-wireless-goodness/</link>
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		<title>My 25 things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not happy about Facebook&#8217;s greedy terms of service, so rather than hand them content that they&#8217;re going to keep and monetize forever, I&#8217;m posting my &#8220;25 things you didn&#8217;t know about me&#8221; here&#8230;

I ignore chain-letter-like things, which is why it&#8217;s taken me so long to give in and make this list (and why I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2009/02/18/my-25-things/</link>
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		<title>My &#8220;Day On&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today on Martin Luther King Day, I participated in Day On, yet another great Portland tech community event: local geeks gathered at CubeSpace to volunteer to help non-profits with technical issues. A couple of dozen folks showed up to offer help, and though only a few folks came by to ask for assistence or asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2009/01/19/my-day-on/</link>
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		<title>A Christmas tradition, from 1973</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Christmas was a big holiday for my Dad: each year, he&#8217;d send out custom Christmas cards with obscure messages. He&#8217;d look forward to the phone calls that would result &#8212; people asking for hints, or badgering him for the new low of that year&#8217;s wordplay. He&#8217;d usually chide them (truthfully) that I&#8217;d gotten the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2008/12/16/a-christmas-tradition-from-1973/</link>
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		<title>Fixing a little VPN annoyance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this in a coffee shop, and when I&#8217;m using a public wireless network, I like to secure my network traffic using a virtual private network (VPN) that I set up on my server at home. Without this, anyone else close by could spy on what I&#8217;m doing (including seeing passwords I&#8217;m sending to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2008/11/17/fixing-a-little-vpn-annoyance/</link>
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		<title>The Android fonts on my desktop are beautiful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tinkering with developing software for the Android phone platform (and loving my G1 phone that runs it)&#8230; the Android folks at Google hired Ascender to create a new font family for the phone, the only family that the phone comes with. Here&#8217;s a sample from Ascender&#8217;s press release.
It occurred to me that because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2008/11/15/android-fonts/</link>
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