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		<title>You&#8217;re Not As Special As You Think You Are</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2010/02/14/youre-not-as-special-as-you-think-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few months I will complete my master&#8217;s degree. Clearly I have learned little since, instead of getting a job and making money, I have decided to begin a Ph.D program next year. But one of the genuine insights from graduate school&#8211;and I strongly believe that you learn this lesson only in situ&#8211;is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I weren&#8217;t a computer scientist&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then I would prefer to be either a rock star:

or better yet, a rock star and a movie star:

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		<title>Wordpress, 1and1, and MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several months now I have been unable to automatically update Wordpress. Then, this afternoon, I found that I could no longer update the site manually. A quick glance at the 2.9.1 release notes revealed the problem:
Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).
A few searches revealed that many other 1&#38;1 users have encountered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How People Once Wrote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Atlanta last week I was digging through the magazines that tend to wash up at my family&#8217;s house. We&#8217;ve lived there for 25 years, and my dad never seems to cancel subscriptions. In Sports Illustrated I found this historical article from 16 August 1954:
The art of running the mile consists, in essence, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is free speech free? For a moment consider this question independent of politics and economics and law. As a human being, are you free to express yourself absent some social cost? Of course not. And this certainty has inspired some reflection recently:
I can&#8217;t mention success because I will look arrogant.
I can&#8217;t admit failure because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Do Better, AJC</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2009/09/18/you-can-do-better-ajc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Tucker&#8217;s opinion piece &#8220;Unhealthy tone to Obama opposition&#8221; (16 Sept.) was not helpful. It is clear to nearly everyone irrespective of political persuasion that President Obama&#8217;s election was a crucial moment in this country&#8217;s history. What saddens me is that Ms. Tucker sees Mr. Obama in much the same way as the &#8220;fervid right&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2009/06/30/on-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my comments yesterday on pianos and noise:
The whole world has changed around us in ways we can only guess at. In an age when any stereo system can re-create the full range of tones audible to the human ear, is it any wonder that piano tuners are expected to make the instruments bright and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book I Want to Write</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2009/06/29/the-book-i-want-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now I have wanted to write a book. What to say has been the problem. For one thing it is difficult to say something that has not been said, or that is not being said, amid the noise in the present world. Walking in Barnes and Noble is like watching a comedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theories and Solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2008/12/31/theories-and-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last spring I received a gift card to an &#8216;eMall&#8217;. The card could be used at several different retailers accessible through the eMall&#8217;s portal. These retailers offered the usual fare&#8211;electronics, books, clothes, CDs&#8211;but instead of simply directing traffic to Amazon.com or Best Buy, the mall&#8217;s designer contracted firms that were either obscure or in business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Status</title>
		<link>http://www.spencegreen.com/2008/12/30/notes-on-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an attractive friend. A few days ago, she sent an email to me with a familiar post-script: &#8216;Sent from my iPhone&#8217;. To my surpise, the image of her clutching that sleek device made her all the more appealing. My reaction was instinctive and without premeditation. How does possession of a consumer good confer [...]]]></description>
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