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	<description>A Democrat Living the 2008 New Hampshire Primary</description>
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		<title>Load Balancers and Crappiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading something about Array Networks and the load balancers with SSL offload that they offer. I followed a link to their main page, and the images slowly drew on the page. I&#8217;m on a cable modem, and thumbnail images generally load near-instantly. This is one of the images embedded on their main page. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/07/23/load-balancers-and-crappiness/</link>
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		<title>Sapeurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Cracked.com article &#8212; yes, I&#8217;m citing it as a serious source &#8212; introduced me to the concept of Congo&#8217;s SAPE, from Société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes, which translates to the &#8220;Society for the Advancement of People of Elegance.&#8221; Adherents, known as sapeurs, dress in dapper, sometimes garish attire, despite living of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/07/11/sapeurs/</link>
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		<title>Microloans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of microloans has intrigued me for a while. Loaning $500 might be all it takes for someone in the third world &#8212; or any non-superpower nation, really &#8212; to start a successful small business, or to get a college degree.
The latter is the concept behind Vittana, which aims to allow microfinanciers &#8212; you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/07/03/microloans/</link>
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		<title>The Other White Meat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is old news, but it still cracks me up&#8230;
As they do every year, Thinkgeek put up some funny fake products on April Fools&#8217; Day. Among them was Canned Unicorn Meat, which they called &#8220;the new white meat.&#8221;
The National Pork Board sent Thinkgeek a cease and desist nastygram, alleging trademark dilution of their &#8220;The Other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/27/the-other-white-meat/</link>
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		<title>Telephony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a few months back about how I&#8217;m interested in setting up an Asterisk instance for VoIP, though it would be rather silly as I don&#8217;t have phone service, so it&#8217;d either use my cell phone via Bluetooth, or use Skype as a channel. (Neither of which, apparently, are commonly-used.)
I mentioned before that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/27/telephony/</link>
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		<title>Retro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More companies need to make new &#8220;old&#8221; things.

This one seems to have been discontinued (why!?), but that only makes me want it more. AM/FM and limited shortwave. Auxiliary inputs (banana plug), even. I could pair it with an active antenna if I were interested in SWL, since I can&#8217;t exactly put up a tower outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/27/retro/</link>
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		<title>Fix slow first request with Passenger / mod_rails?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main page of this site is now a Rails app, and I plan to use Rails more extensively as time goes on. I run Passenger with Apache, which is a pretty nice solution. (I&#8217;m thinking of dropping in REE in lieu of standard Ruby, too?)
But it had one crippling bug: if you were the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/26/fix-slow-first-request-with-passenger-mod_rails/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 4 Antenna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The release of the new iPhone 4 was marred by reports that holding it your left hand would interfere with the antenna and cause your signal to drop.
Somewhat absurdly, Steve Jobs suggested that maybe people should just hold it differently.
Well, oops, someone forgot to tell Apple.
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		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna/</link>
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		<title>Big Brother and Kill Switches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s being fiercely opposed and is a far way from reality anyway, but every now and then my tinfoil hat quotient is elevated.
I haven&#8217;t bought anything, don&#8217;t plan to do so too immanently, and won&#8217;t talk publicly about it if I do, but I&#8217;d just like to put a few things out there:

Good-enough 1U servers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/25/big-brother-and-kill-switches/</link>
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		<title>Emailing Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thunderbird and GMail both now provide a fairly intelligent feature that catches when you say &#8220;attached&#8221; or similar and will stop you if you try to send the message without an attachment. (And it&#8217;s not too annoying if you said &#8220;attached&#8221; or &#8220;attachment&#8221; without meaning to attach anything: &#8220;The cable is attached to the rotor&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2010/06/25/emailing-mistakes/</link>
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