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	<title>Eric Covener's Journal</title>
	<link>http://www.misers.org/blog</link>
	<description>A million dollar ideas</description>
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		<title>New take on JFG&#8230;</title>
		<description>http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/

Submit the form to see the effect. </description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2009/01/new-take-on-jfg/</link>
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		<title>Joel on middle management</title>
		<description>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/02b.html



Here’s a tip from someone who has read thousands of resumes. When you’re applying to a startup, or a software company with less than, say, 100 employees, you may want to highlight the Banging Out Code parts of your experience, while deemphasizing the Middle Management parts of your experience.
...

If you’ve ...</description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2009/01/joel-on-middle-management/</link>
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		<title>configuration error: couldn&#8217;t check access. No groups file?</title>
		<description>If you see this in Apache 2.2.x, you're using a Require type that no module recognizes, and you don't have mod_authz_default loaded

If you're just using "Require valid-user", you need mod_authz_user loaded.

You would only hit this if you don't start with the default config file, or you over-aggressively remove modules. </description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/configuration-error-couldnt-check-access-no-groups-file/</link>
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		<title>Circus escapees make run for the border</title>
		<description> </description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/circus-escapees-make-run-for-the-border/</link>
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		<title>Define voluntary&#8230;</title>
		<description>http://www.newsobserver.com/141/story/1347691.html



Wade died after the Saturday afternoon accident in which a van ran a red light and slammed into a car. Police have charged a Durham woman, Linda Lee Ratliff, 46, with involuntary manslaughter, driving while impaired, driving without a license and having an open container of alcohol in the car.

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		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/define-voluntary/</link>
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		<title>Busted flash on Debian unstable</title>
		<description>Apparently the latest v10 flash player (aka flashplugin-nonfree) freaks out when libgtk1.2 has beel loaded into the address space.
Adobe Flash Player: GTK1.x environments not supported. Exiting now

The IBM JDK v5 loads libgtk1.2 into the mozilla/firefox address space, but the v6 java plugin doesn't seem to.  I did the following, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/busted-flash-on-debian-unstable/</link>
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		<title>Price Is Right 420-guy</title>
		<description>
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		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/price-is-right-420-guy/</link>
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		<title>Drew Carey is not excited about TPIR</title>
		<description>

(some people claim the fix is in for this bid, turn on annotations and watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUrCBXRH8o&feature=related ; others claim there's a savant in the audience who knows exact prices of thousands of common showcase items!) </description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/drew-carey-is-not-excited-about-tpir/</link>
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		<title>Rock&#8217;en droids</title>
		<description> </description>
		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/rocken-droids/</link>
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		<title>Six degrees of Adolf Hitler</title>
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 The SIX DEGREES OF HITLER.
 1. Go to Wikipedia
 2. Click "Random page".
 3. From where you end up, try and get to the Adolf Hitler article in 6 pages or less.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Ray
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler


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		<link>http://www.misers.org/blog/2008/12/six-degrees-of-adolf-hitler/</link>
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