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		<title>A requiem for CompuServe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a few days late, but I don&#8217;t recall seeing much comment on this milestone: CompuServe has been shut down by AOL, the current owner of the name and whatever was left of the company.
To enlighten those younger than their forties, CompuServe was one of the first online services, back in the dark ages before [...]<br/>
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		<title>Stock market declines aren’t the only dangers to your 401(k) savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At The Huffington Post, there is a very unsettling entry titled &#8220;Trying to Fix the Broken 401(k) System&#8220;. It reveals that as has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt in the past year, those on Wall Street are more than ready to utilize any and every means to exploit their &#8220;customers&#8221; in the quest for [...]<br/>
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		<title>I wasn’t expecting this… Sarah Palin will resign as Alaska governor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From MSNBC.com:
Report: Palin resigning as Alaska governor
I generally don&#8217;t try to anticipate the strategies of politicians, I have a life to live, but I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to resign her office this early, before campaigning for the 2012 Presidential election began in earnest.
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		<title>Michael Jackson – Now it starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The headline says it all:
LAPD Under Scrutiny After Jackson&#8217;s Death
Let the speculation and creation of conspiracy theories begin&#8230;
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Cross-posted between Random Fate and The Moderate Voice.
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		<title>Instructions for life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Years ago, I received one of those multiple forwarded emails titled &#8220;Instructions for life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve subsequently found out that the list was NOT from the Dalai Lama, but I still think it&#8217;s worth working on living according to the list anyway.
Here it is:
Take into account that [...]<br/>
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		<title>Men really aren’t that complicated…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. -Samuel Butler (1835 &#8211; 1902)

Men (the gender that is) are actually quite easy to understand&#8230;
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many amazing things were accomplished in the days before computers became ubiquitous and the world wide web became a distraction as well as a tool.
Nazi Germany built the first jet fighter in the world, and was in the process of building a plane that bears a remarkable resemblance to the modern B2 bomber (although I [...]<br/>
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		<title>A thought on Heaven and Hell and cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[People in Europe tend not to get offended by cultural generalizations, to wit:
Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is [...]<br/>
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		<title>Don’t bring stakes and garlic to a zombie fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From a discussion at work today:
“Dude, this is a zombie project, it won’t die and it eats our brains.”
“I know… I’ve gotten out the garlic and stakes to kill it and I’m getting nowhere.”
“Well that’s why, you don’t use garlic and stakes on zombies, that’s for vampires.&#160; You use flamethrowers and chainsaws for zombies.  [...]<br/>
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		<title>Grief upon endings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Let no one think that the end of my marriage is a casual matter for me.
I wish it was a casual matter for me, then it wouldn&#8217;t hurt so much.
I am simply trying not to dwell on the loss and the future I once anticipated with happiness, a future which now seems irretrievably dark without [...]<br/>
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		<title>It’s a good thing blood seems to be water-soluble…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing that blood seems to be water-soluble (at least when relatively fresh) and doesn&#8217;t soak into carpets made from artificial fibers. Otherwise, I&#8217;d lose the deposit on my crummy apartment, despite the fact there are far worse problems here.
It&#8217;s too long a story to write now, as late as it is. I&#8217;ll [...]<br/>
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		<title>On God, doubt, and personal struggles (to be continued)…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Usually, I am at no loss for words, but lately I cannot seem to express myself. Fortunately, or not, I am continually running across music that conveys at least in part feelings that seem like they would need paragraphs or pages to get across properly. The lyrics express my conflicted feelings about God in a [...]<br/>
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		<title>Wordplay that likely will not be understood by many today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I often feel this way, but many likely won&#8217;t get the wordplay nowadays&#8230;
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
-William H. Mauldin

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		<title>One day, I’ll buy a sailboat and sail around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of years before I went to France as an expatriate, things were going very badly at my company, and there were layoffs galore, including some of my close friends. At the time, my plan if I was laid off was to take my severance, cash out everything, buy a sailboat, and sail around [...]<br/>
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		<title>Alone…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8230;that is what has been proven to me the past few days; I am alone.
So, there it is&#8230;
The end&#8230;<br/>
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		<title>Longing and loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand what happened to our love&#8230;

Don Henley &#8211; Boys Of Summer

I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun&#8230;

The woman I love and I are getting divorced.
I will not spend the rest of my life with my black-haired girl with big, dark eyes&#8230;
Don&#8217;t look back, you can never look back&#8230;
I thought [...]<br/>
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		<title>More on love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From an episode of House : You can&#8217;t feel that much guilt without love.
Love is difficult, very difficult in such a graceless age.
&#8212;
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		<title>The first nerd President</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost 15 minutes long, but it&#8217;s very funny. John Hodgman, the &#8220;PC&#8221; in the &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m a Mac&#8230; And I&#8217;m a PC&#8221; commercials speaks at the Radio and Television Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner:

President Obama flashes the Vulcan salute twice, so he really is our first nerd President.
Cool&#8230;
&#8212;
Thanks to TrekMovie.com for the link to the video.
&#8212;
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		<title>The Heart of the Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Grant</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sometimes, one cannot encompass the heart of the matter until it&#8217;s too late&#8230;

How can love survive in such a graceless age?
&#8212;
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		<title>Claiming to be pious and good doesn’t make you so</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I think of number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won&#8217;t be bad at all.
&#160;&#160;&#160;-Mark Twain (1835 &#8211; 1910)<br/>
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