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	<title>Atomized</title>
	<link>http://atomized.org</link>
	<description>Fragmenting reality.</description>
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		<title>Why I’m Not Switching Back To Linux Any Time Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the updated Ubuntu File Browser:

Fully 30% of the window height is administrative debris. There are ten arrow buttons. The window close control is directly above the Edit menu.
Complexity is not your friend. Fitt’s Law is not your enemy.
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		<link>http://atomized.org/2010/03/why-i%e2%80%99m-not-switching-back-to-linux-any-time-soon/</link>
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		<title>Debug Tracing Cassandra With Lazyboy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lazyboy 0.7.5 (which I just released) has a pretty great new feature, debug tracing. This is a great way to see what your application is doing and how long it takes. Using the debug trace facility is simple:
import lazyboy as lzb

lzb.add_pool('Keyspace', servers=['127.0.0.1:9160'], debug=True,
           slow_thresh=100)
conn = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2010/02/debug-tracing-cassandra-with-lazyboy/</link>
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		<title>pep8 &amp; pylint in Emacs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a lot of hacking on Python these days, and of course, I use Emacs. The built-in python-mode has the ability to run pychecker on your source, but doesn&#8217;t integrate other tools. I like to run pep8.py &#038; pylint regularly to keep my code clean, so I hacked together compilation-derived modes to drive them.
Compile.el [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2010/02/pep8-pylint-in-emacs/</link>
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		<title>A Problem With iPhone Gaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a fairly irritating problem with many iPhone games. It drives me nuts. It’s the fixed use of the 90° counter-clockwise landscape orientation. If you look at this photo from the Assassin’s Creed Ⅱ demo at the Apple event back in September 2009, you can see what I mean:

The problem is that when you hold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2010/02/a-problem-with-iphone-gaming/</link>
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		<title>Where Shall We Have Lunch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote:
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we eat?’ the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/12/where-shall-we-have-lunch/</link>
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		<title>New Moleskine Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to start writing regularly somewhere around 2006. I was feeling frustrated that my handwriting was illegible and difficult, and sought a way to improve it. I’ve kept a journal ever since, filling a page or two each time I sit down to write. I try to write daily, but sometimes I fail, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/12/new-moleskine-day-2/</link>
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		<title>I Have Failed at Minimalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently went through a major shift in my life, which made me decide to fully embrace minimalism. My short-term goal was to dramatically reduce the number of my physical possessions, to the point where I could comfortably fit everything into a car.
I’m declaring it a failure.
Why?
I reevaluated what I consider important. Owning lots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/12/i-have-failed-at-minimalism/</link>
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		<title>Conversation With A Craigslist Scammer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted my old MacBook Pro on Craigslist. It seems that any time you try to sell electronic stuff on Craigslist these days, you get scammers trying to get you to ship it to God knows where. I usually ignore these guys, but I felt like responding this time.
From: Dylan Lewis

I WANT TO KNOW [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/11/conversation-with-a-craigslist-scammer/</link>
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		<title>Two unresolved Snow Leopard regressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
If your wallpaper is stored on your iDisk, it is reset to the default when you reboot. In 10.5, the wallpaper was copied to the local disk; in 10.6, it’s loaded from the remote disk. In order to change it back, one must first change the wallpaper to a different one &#8211; even though it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/11/two-unresolved-snow-leopard-regressions/</link>
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		<title>PHP Objects: Still Pretty Damn Slow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Savage takes issue with my post benchmarking objects and arrays.
His argument is a straw man. My post is about a specific application – simple, flat data, where the primary concern is ease of syntax for accessing that data. He generalizes that position into one of OOP vs. non-OOP, which is not even remotely close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atomized.org/2009/11/php-objects-still-pretty-damn-slow/</link>
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