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	<title>Original Cin &#187; Create It</title>
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	<description>For The World Is Strange</description>
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		<title>A Failure In Planning, Part II</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/04/12/a-failure-in-planning-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, fast forward a week. Another weekend, another chance to see the museum. This time, I planned quite a bit better. I made sure to have my camera in a handy spot the night before, so I could grab it right away, and I double checked the CTA website to make sure I&#8217;d be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock and Horror: Capitalism Online</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/08/shock-and-horror-capitalism-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing some research on Flash games, and found someone with a lot of sense on the subject, but he doesn&#8217;t know much about capitalism:
Capitalism: Some people pointed their finger at me saying I am doing “capitalism”. Let me explain one thing: monetizing a Flash game is not capitalism. It’s almost an utopy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FanCruft Facelift</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/02/fancruft-facelif/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FanCruft, my anime website, has just gotten a much-needed facelift. Here are before and after pictures:

When I first made Fancruft, I wanted to make it look good even in Internet Explorer 5 running on a fairly low-resolution screen (640&#215;480). Many &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243; concepts were new; RFC4627 was published just earlier that year. People were still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made Of Division</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/26/mod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised earlier this week to find out that Omegapaladin (who is lightyears ahead of me in l33t math skillz) hadn&#8217;t heard of the concept of the modulo before. There&#8217;s a lot of unfortunate nitty-gritty problems about mod, but it&#8217;s a very useful operation. I wrote a small program in PHP that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan, Eat A Hand</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/japan-eat-a-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now, for the explanation of the previous post.
I managed to get the buffering trick in XUL to work: it is possible to use a deck of stacks in XUL for animation. HOWEVER, doing so has a really, really high CPU cost, to the extent that just flipping back and forth between two images at 30fps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOVE?! Kitten!? WTF?!!!</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Role Playing Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll post the story behind this pic sometime after I wake up &#8220;tomorrow.&#8221; The short version: It&#8217;s a screenshot of a tech demo for a game engine called &#8220;Love&#8221; that I found online.

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		<title>Writing the Weird</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/06/03/writing-the-weird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote another 500+ words for the second &#8220;People Have Value.&#8221; I know how I want to end the series, and I knew how I wanted to start the story, but until today, I was having a lot of trouble with the setting in this particular part. I basically had a serious problem with believability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File paths, chrome, and XUL</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/06/01/file-paths-chrome-xul/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/06/01/file-paths-chrome-xul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was working with XUL and Javascript yesterday, and I ran into some interesting problems. I&#8217;ve set up my chrome so that the project I&#8217;m working on in Eclipse is available in Firefox as &#8220;chrome://twodee/content/exampleScreen.xul&#8221;. I wanted a function I wrote to accept a filename as an argument, but no matter what I tried, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing for Darth Vader</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/05/25/writing-for-darth-vader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 07:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I did a little bit of work on Apochswords tonight, the massive space opera trilogy that I&#8217;ve been working on since&#8230; 2003? 2004? A very long time indeed. Maybe even 2002, since I remember that I discussed StorySage.com with my roommates in college my freshman year.
Tonight&#8217;s work consisted of some chapter outlines for the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ponoko</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/05/04/ponoko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 08:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project TickTock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just happened to find Ponoko, a site that will laser-cut things based on EPS files. Oh, and they have Inkscape templates available.
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		<title>Miniclock</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/16/miniclock/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/16/miniclock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m an impatient person, I&#8217;ve put a little PHP based version of the clock right in this blog&#8217;s sidebar. I&#8217;ve also changed the way the colors switch after realizing that Green changing into Red looked way too Christmaslike.
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		<title>StorySage Gutted, Renewed</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/12/storysage-gutted-renewed/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/12/storysage-gutted-renewed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now running StorySage on WordPress; there&#8217;s only one story there now instead of two, but it looks cool with its custom theme, NDASH.
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		<title>More On The Logic Of The Clock</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/12/more-on-the-logic-of-the-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/12/more-on-the-logic-of-the-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last time, I wrote that it&#8217;d be very difficult to work through the clock&#8217;s logic if I used only 5 output pins. Fortunately, there&#8217;s no requirement that says I need to do so &#8212; leaving two pins available for input should be sufficient. I can use 1 pin to denote AM/PM, and that leaves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. I Want To Make A Clock</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/02/16/tick-tock-tick-tock-i-want-to-make-a-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/02/16/tick-tock-tick-tock-i-want-to-make-a-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project TickTock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As part of my 2008 campaign to &#8220;Create It,&#8221; I&#8217;ve decided to try to build a clock of my own design. This is, quite frankly, crazy. As a matter of fact, I have little experience with anything that I might use to create this project other than some halfway-decent programming sense.
Anyway, on to what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ve Learned</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/30/things-ive-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/30/things-ive-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things learned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metacognition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by running across my old (pen and paper) journal last night, and by this post at the Happiness Project, I decided to create a list of things I&#8217;ve learned (draft version):

Be cynically optimistic.
There is a cost to everything.
Location, location, location &#8212; the physical world and its arrangement are still important
Words are not weapons.
Talk is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More scheduler stuff</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/27/more-scheduler-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone that&#8217;s interested in looking at it: My Scheduler, Source Code. Be forewarned: it&#8217;s ugly.
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		<title>The Scheduler is Done</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/23/the-scheduler-is-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or, at the very least, it&#8217;s usable.  Here&#8217;s a screenshot:

The earlier screenshot that I posted was launched with window.openDialog, but I&#8217;m still having trouble getting Chrono to launch in its own window so that everything &#8220;just works&#8221; &#8212; so instead, I&#8217;ll be using it from inside Firefox, which I have open most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a new personal scheduler:</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/16/creating-a-new-personal-scheduler/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/16/creating-a-new-personal-scheduler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy working on my 2008 theme, &#8220;Create it&#8221; &#8212; long fascinated by the power of XUL, I&#8217;ve decided to use it to improve my personal scheduling system. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of what I currently use, an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet:

And, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m planning on replacing it with, a Javascript-automated, XUL scheduler:

Pretty spiffy. No, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My theme for 2008</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/06/my-theme-for-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/06/my-theme-for-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the advice of the Chief Happiness Officer, I didn&#8217;t make any resolutions this New Year&#8217;s, but have chosen a theme for 2008. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Create it.&#8220;
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