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	<title>mental packrat</title>
	<link>http://johnboone.net/blog</link>
	<description>a window to a mirror</description>
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		<title>Flash has jumped the shark.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So there&#8217;s been a lot of controversy lately about why Flash is not allowed on the iPhone and iPad.  Steve Jobs just published a rant about why Apple&#8217;s not going to allow it, which to me is most interesting not for the barbs he directs at Adobe, but for the vision for the future it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 9 years, I&#8217;m leaving Burton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2000, I moved with my new wife across the country from San Francisco to Burlington, Vermont, to work at my dream job: web developer for Burton Snowboards.  I couldn&#8217;t believe my luck!  I would actually be getting paid to do websites for the best snowboarding company in the world.  Apparently they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=146#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=after-9-years-im-leaving-burton</link>
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		<title>winter biking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually the best part of my day is my bike commute to work from the New North End of Burlington.  It&#8217;s about 6 1/2 miles, and takes me about a half hour.  I get some valuable time to myself, freed from the demands of work or family, it&#8217;s great exercise, and it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=138#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=winter-biking</link>
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		<title>New North End Secession = hot air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Burlington Free Press recently ran an article about talk of the New North End neighborhood seceding from the town.  Aside from the fact that I think that&#8217;s a dumb idea and would never actually go anywhere, the article itself seemed to be trying to report a nonexistent story.
There was not a single quote from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=132#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=new-north-end-secession-hot-air</link>
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		<title>In defense of Burlington Telecom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently on my Front Porch Forum list some people have been complaining about Burlington Telecom&#8217;s recent rate increases.  I do agree that double-digit increases are pretty questionable, and I&#8217;m not so happy about them, either, but I will be sticking with Burlington Telecom, for several reasons.
First of all, Comcast&#8217;s customer service is terrible by comparison.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why facebook won&#8217;t last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I avoided Facebook for a long time.  Like many people, I think I thought of it as a slicker MySpace.  When I first saw it they even had a weird logo with a silhouette of a dubious-faced young man, and for some reason it creeped me out a little bit.
Once my lovely wife got going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=115#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=why-facebook-wont-last</link>
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		<title>vt dotnet user group meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to my first Vermont .NET Users Group meeting last night, which was pretty interesting.  Julia Lerman, who leads the group, gave a presentation on the .NET Entity Framework, which she just finished a book about.  My boss says he&#8217;s heard that there are many Microsoft MVPs who are pretty against the EF, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=106#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=vt-dotnet-user-group-meeting</link>
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		<title>enzo&#8217;s story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enzo dictated a story to me this morning where he had a magic drill that would turn you into a skeleton (I had a choice between zombie, skeleton, and ghost, and I chose skeleton).
I was washing dishes, and told him I had to finish them.
&#8220;OK, so when you&#8217;re done with that dish, then turn to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ride a bike!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think this world would be a better place if everyone rode bikes more.
They&#8217;re simple machines, and you can learn to maintain them yourself or have it done for you extremely cheaply.  They last for years if properly taken care of, and they&#8217;re powered by the most renewable energy source there is.
Biking is good for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnboone.net/blog/?p=73#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=biking-to-work</link>
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		<title>more bread, less cookie.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Facebook is great at posting little snippets of what&#8217;s going on, but if you know me, you probably know that I like to pontificate.  Usually I just do a Cliff Claven style too-much-informational type rant in response to one of Enzo&#8217;s innocent &#8220;how does X work?&#8221; questions, but in an effort to practice my [...]]]></description>
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