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	<description>the continuing adventures of a geek dad</description>
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		<title>in the beginning &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Nerd, and the Nerd was with God, and the Nerd was God.
The Nerd did write a simple rails application and deployed it unto a shared host provider.
The people were made of aware of the Nerd&#8217;s work via an intriguing message on twitter and they were pleased.  The people told their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2010/03/27/in-the-beginning/</link>
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		<title>decade retrospective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been around a decade since I first started getting paid specifically to write software.  It seems a reasonable time to look back and speculate about the things that i&#8217;ve realised over that time.
One person&#8217;s personal revelations almost never correspond to anyone else&#8217;s and so perhaps most of these things will seem completely obvious.  Equally, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2009/08/30/decade-retrospective/</link>
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		<title>games maisie likes to play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Maisie makes up some interesting games so  I thought I should document a few of them.    These games involve some fairly interminable repetition but I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be long at all before I look back and really miss playing them.
Each game will be varied at some point by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2009/01/19/games-maisie-likes-to-play/</link>
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		<title>favourite albums of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel compelled to write a list of the new albums that I really got into last year.
The Dodos &#8211; Visitor
I&#8217;ve just been thrashing this album for some reason and can&#8217;t wait to see them next Tuesday night at the Northcote Social Club.
Man Man -Rabbit Habits
I saw these guys a few weeks ago at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2009/01/02/favourite-albums-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>gratuitous child picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I checked out this blog on my phone browser yesterday.  It still looks awesome but is completely impossible to use.  The unusability of this blog is probably the feature I find the most endearing.
Blogging often seems such an act of vanity (especially when you have nothing interesting to say).
Here&#8217;s a picture of Maisie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2008/11/26/gratuitous-child-picture/</link>
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		<title>nerd pathology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like the portrayal of nerds in rands in repose&#8217;s nerd handbook but just can&#8217;t go along with it.  I like it because it&#8217;s flattering to nerds but can&#8217;t help feeling that there&#8217;s a much more serious pathological aspect to being a nerd that is completely glossed over.
I consider myself a fairly earnest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2008/11/23/nerd-pathology/</link>
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		<title>using git on site5 (the details)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More to remind myself than anything else, this post provides the details for getting started using private git repositories on site5 (and pretty much any other shared hosting service that has ssh available and is willing to install git).
To start, you&#8217;ll need to politely ask the technical support people at site5 to install the latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2008/08/17/using-git-on-site5-the-details/</link>
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		<title>wordpress-cli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I should mention something about this awesome wordpress theme that seems to now work only on firefox.  Why you can&#8217;t &#8216;telnet&#8217; to other people&#8217;s blogs on other themes i&#8217;ll never understand.
It was originally written by Rod McFarland and hosted on google code but has recently been taken over by fogus and moved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2008/08/05/wordpress-cli/</link>
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		<title>reading gmail from lotus notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of howto articles explaining how to do things that you should never under any circumstances want to do.
So the gmail web interface is a pretty straightforward usable interface for reading email.  It neatly threads conversations together and has fairly simple vim like key shortcuts for navigating email.
Notes on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mark.ryall.name/blog/2008/07/05/reading-gmail-from-lotus-notes/</link>
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