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		<title>Wordpress 2.5x having troubling publishing posts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five times in the past 3-4 weeks I&#8217;ve written and published a post on this blog only to come back a day later and see it not actually published and live. What&#8217;s going on?
The question in my mind is: am I actually publishing the post or just hitting Save? As you can see &#8230; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/07/04/wordpress-25x-having-troubling-publishing-posts/</link>
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		<title>Advertiser thank-you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever so often I like to do a thank-you post to my advertisers, who support the costs of doing this blog and bringing the wonderful goeyness that is Sparkplug9 to the world.
With no further ado &#8230; here they are:

 Business card printing 
 Business school 
 Affordable Toner Cartridges 
 Business christmas cards 
 Staffing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/07/03/advertiser-thank-you/</link>
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		<title>YAOU (Yet another Office update)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I bought and installed Office 2008 on our new iMac &#8230; and immediately had a 400+ MB download to update it. Tonight I started up PowerPoint &#8230; and am immediately confronted with a 158 MB to update it again.
I can only assume that Microsoft screwed up something in the initial update horribly, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/30/yaou-yet-another-office-update/</link>
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		<title>Back in the saddle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back in the office after a week&#8217;s vacation, and after clearing a mini-mountain of email and other assorted work, I feel energized.
Oddly, over the past 5 years I have never actually taken all my allotted vacation time &#8230; but I intend to this year. The benefits are just too great, and the costs too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/30/back-in-the-saddle/</link>
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		<title>QOTD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gotta love this new quote of the day:

“Pardon him … he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

Saw it on Bruce Byfield&#8217;s blog &#8230;
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		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/29/qotd-2/</link>
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		<title>WALL-E and Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you catch the Mac start-up sounds in WALL-E?
Teresa and I took the kids to see WALL-E last night (great movie, paradigm-breaker, lots of fun). One particularly interesting part for long-time Mac users are the Mac start-up sounds that accompany WALL-E&#8217;s and EVE&#8217;s reboot cycles. Notcot has already noticed that EVE is an iPod of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/29/wall-e-and-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Mariners are champs; 3 years without a loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Ethan&#8217;s baseball team won a city-wide championship today, ending their current season and extending a unbeaten win streak to three complete years.

The game was tough - the Mariners were down 8-1 and 12-5 in early innings, but managed to tighten up the defense and tune up the bats to squeak out a nail-biting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/28/mariners-are-champs-3-years-without-a-loss/</link>
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		<title>Quintessentially American</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You gotta love this quote:

&#8220;It&#8217;s so disappointing,&#8221; said Linda Wilmesherr as she peered through binoculars at water pouring through a gap that appeared to be 30 feet wide. &#8220;With all the guns in this county, couldn&#8217;t we kill a muskrat?&#8221;

The poor woman is of course dealing with the possibility of her house disappearing in floodwaters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/27/quintessentially-american/</link>
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		<title>New iMac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teresa, the kids and I just got home from the Apple store in Pacific Centre, where we picked up a new iMac.
First impression: wow! The screen is amazing and the speed is great.
Second impression: Apple Migration Assistant failed to assist, and all our user accounts, data, and applications are still on the old iMac.
Time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/24/new-imac/</link>
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		<title>Stuck in Toronto &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m supposed to be in Hartford tonight prepping for a DVD shoot &#8230; but thunderstorms have closed the airport. 
Which means I&#8217;m cooling my heels in a Toronto airport hotel (not literally, it&#8217;s muggy here) until tomorrow &#8230;
The cameras will have to wait.
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		<link>http://sparkplug9.com/2008/06/16/stuck-in-toronto/</link>
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