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	<description>Your daily dose of nothing, because I don't usually post here daily.</description>
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		<title>Pandora and Finding New Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pandora needs a &#8220;people who like what I like also like&#8230;&#8221; system, like Amazon&#8217;s. Actually Amazon&#8217;s is &#8220;people who bought this item also bought&#8230;&#8221;, but the concept is similar.

I find that when I create a new Pandora station seeded with a few specific songs/bands, the station is great for a bit but really doesn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/pandora-and-finding-new-music/</link>
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		<title>Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A well-researched and personally-grounded exploration into the ethics and business of medical studies, and indeed: what a big business it has become. The author himself has diabetes, and decides to undergo an experimental procedure as a test subject, a human guinea pig as it were, where donor insulin-producing cells are transplanted into his liver as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/chasing-medical-miracles-the-promise-and-perils-of-clinical-trials/</link>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Shadow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small comment about writing style. (I wrote this a long time ago. Found it in a drafty place.)

I read the original Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott Card years ago, and at the time it seemed &#8220;simplistic&#8221;. The hero (Ender) and the path he took were just too perfect. He faced his challenges almost robotically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/enders-shadow/</link>
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		<title>Categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does WordPress have a selectable &#8220;Uncategorized&#8221; category? Isn&#8217;t that contradictory?

Further, although it automatically sets &#8220;Uncategorized&#8221; upon save if no other categories were selected, it doesn&#8217;t unset that category when selecting other categories, leaving open the possibility of a post being both definitively categorized and categorized as Uncategorized all at the same time. How silly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/categories/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Math</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Los Angeles to Seattle.

Standard ticket price: $64
Refundable ticket price: $222
Cancellation/change penalty fee for standard tickets: $50

Hmm&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/virgin-math/</link>
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		<title>Passing By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was walking home from work, heading along Wilshire, passing 4th, when an elderly gentleman driving a car towards the ocean called out through his passenger-side window: &#8220;Sir, is the ocean that way?&#8221; I called back &#8220;yes it is!&#8221; and we continued in our respective directions.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/passing-by/</link>
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		<title>Database Artistry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to register the domains &#8220;databaseartistry.com&#8221; and &#8220;dbartistry.com&#8221;, but these were already taken. Figures; anyway I can be more creative than that. :)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/database-artistry/</link>
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		<title>Relationship Generator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Text of ad:

Are you single? My name is Markus and I created Plentyoffish.com; my site is completely free and we generate about 800,000 relationships a year&#8230;

Hmm, generate relationships? Interesting language. I guess you could put it that way from a statistical perspective, as in, salesmen, sorry&#8230; sales_people_ generate leads. Perhaps that&#8217;s a poor example, though; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/relationship-generator/</link>
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		<title>Evite: A Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dislike the expression &#8220;blast from the past&#8221;, as if the fact that it rhymes with itself makes it somehow worthy despite the fact that &#8220;blast&#8221; hardly makes sense here, semantically. But, wow, the Evite photo viewer //stinks//. Is this still 1995?



Maximum photo size appears to be 400 &#215; 300.
Uploaded mages are re-compressed at very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/evite-a-blast-from-the-past/</link>
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		<title>Unlinking Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll keep this short, because it&#8217;s a meta post. And &#8220;meta means murder&#8221; (I read somewhere). And if I read it somewhere, it must be true! Anyhow, let&#8217;s continue.

After much figurative navel-gazing, I realize I&#8217;ve been reluctant to post here because I&#8217;d subscribed my Facebook profile to this blog, such that everything I wrote was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mh-z.com/blog/unlinking-myself/</link>
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