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	<description>Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Swing Geeks</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/04/03/swing-geeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now been dancing swing for a little over two years. The people I&#8217;ve met through it have been overwhelmingly some of the nicest, most generous-spirited people anywhere&#8230; and also, a lot of the guys are pretty geeky.

Why?

The least charitable answer is &#8220;the geeks are there because there are women there,&#8221; but that&#8217;s not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Sandals, Scents, and Sisters</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/03/18/sandals-scents-sisters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Easter time, and sermons are now discussing stories surrounding the Passion. One of these that I&#8217;ve always had a lot of difficulty with is the story of Jesus being anointed with perfume. It actually appears in all four gospels (with some rather significant variations), but let&#8217;s just take a quick look at the account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Good Facebook Apps</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/02/17/facebook-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to resist. Really, I did. The API launched, and the first Facebook Apps appeared, and they were terrible. Awful. Hideously ugly beasts that clogged up profiles, spread themselves like viruses, and served no useful purpose.

And that still describes a lot of the Facebook Apps, especially those from companies like Slide and RockYou.

But out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Data to the Browser With Open-Get</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/01/22/browser-data-push/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/01/22/browser-data-push/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who&#8217;s curious how Gmail&#8217;s chat widget notifies your browser that a new message has arrived, be curious no longer: here&#8217;s a simplified page that demonstrates the method used.

Note: Before we go on, I should just clarify that nothing here is based on insider knowledge of Google (I was never anywhere near the Gmail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soundtrack for Life</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/01/02/soundtrack/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2008/01/02/soundtrack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This last year was one of travel. I was in New York from January to April; back in Waterloo from May to August; then Sydney from September to Christmas. Each time with its own music: unrelated songs but that I&#8217;d been listening to them at that time. That&#8217;s how I am with music&#8230; obsessive. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Adventures</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/11/03/sydney-adventures/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/11/03/sydney-adventures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few more brief remarks about various things I&#8217;ve been up to here in Sydney. I&#8217;ve been frustrated looking online for honest feedback from the customers of businesses and services I am considering patronizing, so I&#8217;ve structured this post as a series of reviews. 

Surfing Lessons. I ended up purchasing a three-lesson pack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WP-Cats, Now With jQuery</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/10/26/wp-cats-jquery/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/10/26/wp-cats-jquery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty pedestrian way to break a month&#8217;s silence, but the 0.2 version of WP-Cats is out. I&#8217;ve rewritten the JavaScript so that I&#8217;m no longer completely ashamed of it; the closures are a lot cleaner now, and it makes extensive use of jQuery for DOM manipulation and bits of animation.

There&#8217;s also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambigrams Again</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/09/21/ambigrams-again/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/09/21/ambigrams-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

A couple years ago I became interested in ambigrams, particularly the work of John Langdon. At the time, I got a hold of his Wordplay book, and began experimenting with some of my own designs.

I recently had a breakthough in figuring out how to create a surprisingly readable ambigram for my mechatronics engineering class. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Sydney</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/09/08/life-in-sydney/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/09/08/life-in-sydney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney is a beautiful city; I&#8217;m having a lot of fun exploring and wandering about here. In the spirit of tradition, here are a few early observations and random fun tips, from my first week of living it up down under.



The downtown area of Sydney is called the CBD, for central business district. To my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New WP-Cats</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/08/29/new-wp-cats-2/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/08/29/new-wp-cats-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No functionality changes, but I spent an hour on the Clipper yesterday figuring out how to make WP-Cats work with WP 2.2.2.

Admittedly, WP-Cats is a more sophisticated plugin than some in the degree to which it interacts with core code, but my first experience contributing to a major open-source project has been a little mixed. [...]]]></description>
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