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		<title>Direct Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As luck would have it, I&#8217;ve had multiple discussions lately that centered around the concept of direct democracy. Fundamentally, the power of the United States of America rests with we, the people. (Forgive the grammatical inaccuracy. I was making a point.) But in practice, if you stopped someone on the street and asked who runs America, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2012/02/06/direct-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Investments: Good, Great, and Excellent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have very little money invested in either account, but this isn&#8217;t actually about money for those of you who are just skimming the article. 401(k) plan over the past year: A good investment. (Sort of.) &#160; Actively-traded brokerage account I opened with a small amount of savings as an experiment after realizing my bank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2012/01/16/investments-good-great-and-excellent/</link>
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		<title>Wireless Network Info Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like any good geek, I locked down my wireless network a bit after I set it up. I&#8217;m running WPA2, and the password/key was generated with pwqgen, for something sufficiently secure but semi-memorable. I disabled SSID broadcast. My router automatically generated a weird name, which I presume to be two random dictionary words mashed together. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2012/01/07/wireless-network-info-card/</link>
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		<title>Blogs are back&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Protip: Don&#8217;t accidentally delete the Apache config file for a site. It took me 90 seconds to fix and 24 hours to notice. Oops&#8230; :-[]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2012/01/07/blogs-are-back/</link>
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		<title>Stumped by (13)Permission denied: file permissions deny server access ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just pretty stumped by the following Apache error, in /var/log/httpd/error_log: [Thu Dec 08 21:53:28 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] (13)Permission denied: file permissions deny server access: /var/www/html/aml/i ndex.html The error implies it&#8217;s a filesystem permissions issue, and the Apache site explains that it&#8217;s almost always related to filesystem permissions, not Apache configuration. But this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/12/08/stumped-by-13permission-denied-file-permissions-deny-server-access/</link>
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		<title>VerifyHostKeyDNS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just happened across something nifty: you can use the VerifyHostKeyDNS option in your SSH configuration to fetch the host&#8217;s public key fingerprint over DNSSEC-secured DNS (with a &#8220;SSHFP&#8221; record type). This is defined in RFC 4255, Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints if you&#8217;re looking for some light reading.]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/11/29/verifyhostkeydns/</link>
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		<title>All Shiny and New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re now running on a faster virtual machine hosted in Boston, which seems to have excellent uptime. I&#8217;ve also taken this opportunity to upgrade to the latest WordPress. The main page is gone for now, but it avoids the total lunacy of a Ruby on Rails application running for the main page, with PHP for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/11/26/all-shiny-and-new/</link>
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		<title>Secure random strings in Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[File this under &#8220;Well-documented features I never noticed before.&#8221; In Ruby, if you need to generate random strings for various purposes, there&#8217;s a native module: SecureRandom. In Ruby 1.8, you can generate Base-64-encoded strings, hex, random numbers (integers), and random bytes. Ruby 1.9 adds the ability to generate UUIDs and URL-safe Base64 strings. Really simple, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/10/26/secure-random-strings-in-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Facts about K-Mart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask why I was spending my Friday night this way, but I was just reading about Juno, the ISP that I assumed went out of business a decade ago. It turns out that they merged with NetZero (another ISP I forgot all about), and formed United Online. (The interesting thing about their merger is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/10/22/facts-about-k-mart/</link>
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		<title>IMAP Search Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think most geeks get a ton of email. I&#8217;ve been rather selective in what lists I join (and what mail I just auto-delete at the server level), so I only get perhaps a couple hundred emails a day now. For various ridiculous reasons, searching a mailbox is hard. Most of my mail clients will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2011/10/21/imap-search-musings/</link>
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