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	<title>A Blog.</title>
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		<title>Covariance and Contravariance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of covariance and contravariance is fairly straightforward for basic datatypes, but it gets a lot less intuitive when you start dealing with generic collections. I recently, finally, got my head around it. Here are some simple cases with simple classes in C# (for brevity, I&#8217;m leaving out the rules for basic datatypes). A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2012/03/03/covariance-and-contravariance/</link>
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		<title>Symptom Solving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many things to dislike about American politics, but possibly my least favorite is the degree to which we&#8217;ve completely given up on solving problems, and spend time debating solutions to the symptoms. Even during an election year, when there&#8217;s no scarcity of big talk, our politicians are largely still unwilling to talk about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2012/01/28/symptom-solving/</link>
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		<title>“Easy” Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In software, you wind up spending most of your time solving easy problems. Problems that have been solved before and, thanks to Google, have solutions available in an instant. Thousands of well-defined, no-risk, completely solvable problems. Virtually everything having to do with a user interface, if you&#8217;ve seen it done before, is &#8220;easy.&#8221; Gmail has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2012/01/21/easy-problems/</link>
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		<title>How to Enjoy American Football</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love football, but I know it&#8217;s hard for a lot of people to get into. More than once I&#8217;ve heard it described as &#8220;just people hitting each other.&#8221; The scoring is also a bit strange, and there are a lot of odd rules, so if you want to enjoy football that&#8217;s not where you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2012/01/14/how-to-enjoy-american-football/</link>
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		<title>Gmail’s new scrollbars subtly prevent me from sending mail.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last 2 weeks, I&#8217;ve noticed on several occasions I&#8217;ve thought I&#8217;d sent mail only to find it sitting as a &#8220;Draft&#8221; in Gmail. I began to think there was a horrible bug in Gmail and was having flashbacks to the days of figuring out why Outlook would leave mail stuck in your outbox. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2011/08/19/gmails-new-scrollbars-subtly-prevent-me-from-sending-mail/</link>
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		<title>Windows Resource Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows has always made it very easy to see what your CPU is doing, and how much memory you&#8217;re using, via Task Manager. However, the bottleneck in many cases is disk I/O, and it&#8217;s not nearly as obvious. Though you could add additional I/O-related columns in the task manager process list, I/O isn&#8217;t summarized in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2011/03/26/windows-resource-monitor/</link>
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		<title>NFL Playoffs 2010: Week 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what a crappy round of predictions last week. I blew 3 out of 4. This week I&#8217;m picking all upsets except the Patriots over the Jets. So: Ravens, Packers, Seahawks. If the Seahawks upset Bears, it would tee them up for a massacre in the NFC Championship. But, I still hope they can pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2011/01/14/nfl-playoffs-2010-week-2/</link>
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		<title>NFL Playoffs 2010: Week 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see if I can do better than last year. Shouldn&#8217;t be hard. New Orleans over Seattle &#8211; I&#8217;d love to see this go down differently, and Seattle is a much better team at home, but a team with a losing record has no business being on the field with last year&#8217;s Superbowl champions. Indianapolis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2011/01/07/nfl-playoffs-2010-week-1/</link>
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		<title>Howto: Copy a Certificate out of IIS and into a Coyote Traffic Management Sever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one probably wants to read this, but I couldn&#8217;t find the full end-to-end walkthrough on the internet, so I figured it should be there. Here are the steps (please suggest a faster way if you know of one!): 1. Export the Certificate using the MMC Snap In Tool (instructions found here but summarized below. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2010/11/09/howto-copy-a-certificate-out-of-iis-and-into-a-coyote-traffic-management-sever/</link>
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		<title>I Like New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As always, the important thing is that I think it&#8217;s funny.]]></description>
		<link>http://lianza.org/blog/2010/07/05/i-like-new-york/</link>
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