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	<description>An ongoing expression of fascination burnout</description>
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		<title>Using custom functions in Puppet templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This eventually required a support ticket to figure out, so I&#8217;m documenting it here in case it&#8217;s useful to others.
The problem: You have a puppet function you find useful. At this point custom functions are really easy to create and distribute via modules so there&#8217;s really no reason not to be using them. However, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated &#8220;Inbox Zero with Mail.app&#8221; technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, I wrote about my technique for implementing Inbox Zero with Mail.app.
Since then, the world has changed. I&#8217;ve upgraded to Snow Leopard, and Quicksilver has essentially stopped working out for me. (I&#8217;ve been trying to keep it up to date, and sometimes it kind of works, but my confidence levels are really low.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/12/updated-inbox-zero-with-mail-app-technique/</link>
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		<title>Launching new specialized blog: ArduinoCollective.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Nate and I have launched a new joint blog to record our electronics hacking projects: the Arduino Collective.
Subscribe over there if you&#8217;re interested in that kind of thing.
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		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/11/launching-new-specialized-blog-arduinocollective-com/</link>
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		<title>Great WordPress Plugin: WP Widget Cache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using WP Widget Cache, I improved my site load time by about 600% by just starting to cache the widgets.
Here are some screenshots from my strace-based &#8216;magic profiler&#8217; (which I still promise to talk more about later.)
It lets you attach to a process which is about to render your website, and then trace all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/great-wordpress-plugin-wp-widget-cache/</link>
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		<title>Standard Deviation with Arduino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother and I were playing around with Arduinos as part of my epic road trip this summer. He was trying to get a stable temperature reading from a sensor.
The issue was that the sensor was fine, except when it was rapidly transitioning from one temperature to another. For example, if the ambient temperature was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/standard-deviation-with-arduino/</link>
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		<title>local::lib: Better perl when you don&#8217;t have root.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days as we move increasingly to &#8216;the clouds&#8217;, it&#8217;s becoming common to get a server where you&#8217;ve got local root. However, those (from a provider and a user perspective) aren&#8217;t always the best way to go. Those are more expensive to provide (dedicated IP&#8217;s, more dedicated resources on the server) and thus more expensive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/locallib-better-perl-when-you-dont-have-root/</link>
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		<title>Questioning Coffee Geeks with Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a few people I work with who are very passionate about coffee, which is something I enjoy very much as well, and have been known to geek out on.
Recently, I passed around this video from Sweet Maria&#8217;s, which is one of the bean providers the most enthusiastic of said co-workers shops with.
The Sweet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/questioning-coffee-geeks-with-science/</link>
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		<title>FlickrPress now available: Turns Flickr RSS to Wordpress Posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I like to post a lot of photos of our son to his blog.

After using WordPress from both the browser and the iPhone client, I just wasn&#8217;t that happy using it for our pictures. On the other hand, we both love (and already use, and have Pro accounts on) Flickr.
Having the photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/flickrpress-now-available-turns-flickr-rss-to-wordpress-posts/</link>
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		<title>Testing perl system interactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the code I end up needing to work on makes calls to various executables to read and process system state. It might be DTrace, or one of the tools that comes with the Virtuozzo/OpenVZ management suite, or one of the HP hardware monitoring tools &#8212; they all want to be called from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/10/testing-perl-system-interactions/</link>
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		<title>Help me suffer for charity!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m raising money for the Wounded Warrior Project and Athletes For A Cure (Prostate Cancer Research) by participating in something called Fight Gone Bad.
The short version is this:

You donate
I go and REALLY REALLY bust my butt
I vomit (optional)
We help out some deserving people and (for those of us with prostates) maybe even ourselves.

&#8220;But Josh, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://serialized.net/2009/09/help-me-suffer-for-charity/</link>
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