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	<title>Jordan.Liggitt(.net) &#187; Misc</title>
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	<description>A slice of Liggitt life</description>
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		<title>Paper Gears</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/11/05/paper-gears/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/11/05/paper-gears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Public Domain</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/10/22/public-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/10/22/public-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, the hymns Great Is Thy Faithfulness and How Great Thou Art are not public domain. In case you were wondering.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Surprisingly, the hymns <i>Great Is Thy Faithfulness</i> and <i>How Great Thou Art</i> are not public domain. In case you were wondering.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A British Banker&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/10/15/a-british-bankers-view/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/10/15/a-british-bankers-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<title>Don&#8217;t Mess With Grandma</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/09/30/dont-mess-with-grandma/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/09/30/dont-mess-with-grandma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Sad, But True</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/09/30/sad-but-true/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/09/30/sad-but-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<title>Resume Wordle</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/08/29/resume-wordle/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/08/29/resume-wordle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Sometimes I write little stories in my folder names</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/08/06/sometimes-i-write-little-stories-in-my-folder-names/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/08/06/sometimes-i-write-little-stories-in-my-folder-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this in the release notes for Eclipse 3.3 a while ago, describing how filenames longer than 255 characters were now supported. Why can&#8217;t all release notes be this creative?

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I saw this in the <a href="http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3-200706251500/whatsnew/eclipse-news-part1.html">release notes</a> for Eclipse 3.3 a while ago, describing how filenames longer than 255 characters were now supported. Why can&#8217;t all release notes be this creative?
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		<title>New Math</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/03/19/new-math/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/03/19/new-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a video made from an old Tom Lehrer song, &#8220;New Math&#8220;. The lip-syncing is annoying, but it ends up being pretty funny&#8230;

]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a video made from an old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer">Tom Lehrer</a> song, &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math_%28song%29">New Math</a>&#8220;. The lip-syncing is annoying, but it ends up being pretty funny&#8230;
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		<title>Privatization</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/02/08/privatization/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/02/08/privatization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The existence of organizations like Underwriters Laboratories depends on the fact that most businesses consider it disadvantageous to kill their own customers, both because it will tend to give one a bad name, and because marketing studies have consistently shown the dead to be far less avid consumers than the living.&#8221; - Economics For Real [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;The existence of organizations like Underwriters Laboratories depends on the fact that most businesses consider it disadvantageous to kill their own customers, both because it will tend to give one a bad name, and because marketing studies have consistently shown the dead to be far less avid consumers than the living.&#8221; - <i>Economics For Real People <a href="http://www.mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf#page=240&#038;view=Fit">(PDF)</a></i></p></blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Creepy Because It&#8217;s True</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/02/04/its-creepy-because-its-true/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2008/02/04/its-creepy-because-its-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The part about the clowns, not the talking baby&#8230;

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The part about the clowns, not the talking baby&#8230;
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		<title>The Legal Code</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/31/the-legal-code/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/31/the-legal-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The accumulation of laws that have been passed over our nation&#8217;s history have a striking resemblance to a crufty code base:

	Dead code → Obsolete laws
	Bugs in border cases → Legal loopholes
	Patches and workarounds → Exhibit A: The AMT fiasco
	Unanticipated side-effects → Pretty much every law ever passed
	Spaghetti code → Insane cross-references which make reading some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The accumulation of laws that have been passed over our nation&#8217;s history have a striking resemblance to a crufty code base:
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	<li>Dead code → Obsolete laws</li>
	<li>Bugs in border cases → Legal loopholes</li>
	<li>Patches and workarounds → Exhibit A: The AMT fiasco</li>
	<li>Unanticipated side-effects → Pretty much every law ever passed</li>
	<li>Spaghetti code → Insane cross-references which make reading some statutes almost impossible</li>
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The major difference, of course, is that most crufty code bases don&#8217;t run people&#8217;s lives.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Show Me The Money</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/31/show-me-the-money/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/31/show-me-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;&#8230;and, in addition to the rest, the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them and interfere with the supply of immediate wants.&#8221; - The Federalist Papers, No. 7]]></description>
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<blockquote>&#8220;&#8230;and, in addition to the rest, the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them and interfere with the supply of immediate wants.&#8221; - <em>The Federalist Papers, No. 7</em></blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Irony</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/01/irony/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/12/01/irony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The funds in the budget for the TiVo subscription came from canceling the YMCA membership.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The funds in the budget for the TiVo subscription came from canceling the YMCA membership.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Slick, But True</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/11/14/slick-but-true/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/11/14/slick-but-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ron paul]]></category>

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		<title>Calvin On Twitter</title>
		<link>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/11/09/calvin-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://jordan.liggitt.net/2007/11/09/calvin-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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