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		<title>Making little things out of big things</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/12/making-little-things-out-of-big-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As proof that sometimes randomly browsing the web while procrastinating from boring work (Saturday night year-end accounting and tax organizing, for instance) can sometimes be useful, a web trick:
Flickr engineer &#8220;schill&#8221; found out that in order to natively re-size images on the client side without making them look like 8-bit dog vomit in MSIE7, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rotate and auto-level video with mencoder</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/12/rotate-and-auto-level-video-with-mencoder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proper CLI incantation to get mplayer/mencoder to clockwise rotate, apply an autolevels filter and re-sample an AVI video is:
mencoder dscf5432.avi -vf rotate=1,pp=al -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1:bitrate=687 -oac copy -o out.avi
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		<title>it&#8217;s heavy, but is it good?</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/12/its-heavy-but-is-it-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chirp.syxyz.net/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always knew there was something I didn&#8217;t like about obsessive logging
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		<title>gut checks</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/12/reality-check/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chirp.syxyz.net/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[8 really scary predictions from FORTUNE
Marc Ambinder in Atlantic: It&#8217;s quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama&#8217;s transition teams these days
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		<title>eventually all walls crumble</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/11/eventually-all-walls-crumble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[apps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Allow me to join the hordes who are saying &#8220;about time&#8221; to the announcement that Adobe will support Flash 10 for 64-bit Linux. Although it makes little practical difference it will be one less wart on the Linux desktop experience.
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		<title>didja see me barrel?</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/11/didja-see-me-barrel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[131.9 cents per litre is somewhere between surf rats and shipsterns
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		<title>some quickies for geekies</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/10/some-quickies-for-geekies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things this week:
Why&#8217;s Camping for quickie site
Git creative at github for quickie versioning
duplicity for quickie encrypted backups to S3
stackoverflow for quickie answers
Media Plugin for quickie embedding
hadoop for quickie figure-outing.
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		<title>the Whitney box variations</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/10/the-whitney-box-variations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The minute waltz, non-prime and 120-harmonic-reversed are worth listening to for a few hours on end.
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		<title>swindling futurity on a large scale.</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/10/swindling-futurity-on-a-large-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/10/swindling-futurity-on-a-large-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction&#8230;
I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity&#8230; is but swindling futurity on a large scale.&#8221;
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson corr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;the silliness is being vaporized&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/09/the-silliness-is-being-vaporized/</link>
		<comments>http://chirp.syxyz.net/2008/09/the-silliness-is-being-vaporized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sbeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[says a long time Wall St. trader. If only it were so. Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman for the last 14 years, has had to suffer such indignities as cashing only a $40million paycheck, and seeing his Florida home lose about $4million in value during this housing crisis. Did he even notice this change [...]]]></description>
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