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		<title>End of an Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1970&#8242;s I remember the first cable box sitting on top of our TV in San Francisco and I&#8217;ve basically had cable almost everywhere I&#8217;ve lived since then &#8212; call it 35 years of cable TV. Almost four years ago I asked Do we watch TV anymore? Analyzing our TV viewing at that time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Media PC for the living room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We needed a media PC to drive a 46&#8243; display in our living room. I saw an article in the May 2009 Maximum PC and basically followed their recipe when I built this system in August. The system has been solid and very quiet. It draws 55-65 watts up and running and the box cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to delete GPT Protective Partition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loaned a portable USB 1 TB drive to someone recently and they accidentally horked it up pretty well. They attempted some fix up on it but when I mounted it on my system it did not appear in the list of disks under My Computer but it was listed as a device off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reduced to reblogging: a short Internet history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loved this post by Cameron Chapman at the Six Revisions blog. I&#8217;m reblogging &#8217;cause I&#8217;m busy but I&#8217;ll have my media PC build and description up soon.]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Command Line stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating scripts to automate administrative or programming build tasks is GOOD. It centralizes details and reduces errors. I find I need to re-learn DOS (and *nix) command line stuff every few years and then I completely forget how to do it and have to learn again. Resources that I find useful: The Windows Command Line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wumpus lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great PHP version of the classic Hunt the Wumpus game of the 1970&#8242;s. This will make a great programming-class homework problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching programming &#8211; part 2: how I tried it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m teaching a kid to program. &#8220;A kid&#8221; to me meaning anyone born after 1980 &#8211; &#8217;cause I&#8217;m old. Here are the choices I made. Start with C++ If you want to be a professional programmer for the rest of your days, you should be an expert in C++. It&#8217;s all there: pointers, Object [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gas-powered blender: good thing we have the technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am stunned by the weird things people think they need like a blender that is powered by a 43 cc gas engine with handlebars like a motorcycle. Amazon shows at least 3-4 different models and colors to choose from.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching programming &#8211; part 1: how I learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young person asked me recently: &#8220;Could you teach me how to write programs?&#8221; Could I ever! I don&#8217;t know. Could I?? I&#8217;m old. I&#8217;m not so sure I&#8217;m a good example. The generations of my programming learning: 1. 1970&#8242;s &#8212; Poking around using BASIC on pre-PC microcomputers. 2. 1980&#8242;s &#8212; Writing a fair bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New PC for my computer lab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed an extra PC for a video editing class I was going to teach. I wanted it to be beefy enough but not too expensive. I started with a PC Gamer &#8220;medium&#8221; game system recommendations and tweaked it a bit. Oh: it had to be quiet! I ordered everything from Amazon and the prices [...]]]></description>
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