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	<description>chaos is the score upon which reality is written</description>
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		<title>How-To: Access Free IPv6 Usenet Servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the successor to the currently used IPv4. Outside of geek circles I seldom hear of people talking much about IPv6. Unfortunately IPv6 hasn&#8217;t enjoyed broad deployment for reasons beyond the scope of this post. Several large web destinations exist today that allow access over IPv6 but they also available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/12/16/how-to-access-free-ipv6-usenet-servers</link>
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		<title>Try Google Chrome OS Early (Updated)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has introduced a new open source Linux-based operating system for web-only applications called Chrome OS. The Google Chrome OS Wikipedia entry has more information that I won&#8217;t duplicate here. 

The Chromium OS Logo
@Hexxeh has generously compiled an early release of Chrome OS for everyone to use so potential users don&#8217;t have to build it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/11/25/try-google-chrome-os-early</link>
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		<title>My Twitter Refollow Policy &amp; Other Odds and Ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard on the heels of @RayBeckerman&#8217;s Twitter refollow policy, I&#8217;ve decided to pen my own. Twitter is a great tool for spreading information in short bursts but its been hampered by the large amount of marketing, self-promotion, bots, and adult-content promoters. The fact is I have a finite amount of time per day and any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/08/26/my-twitter-refollow-policy</link>
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		<title>In Their Own Words: The NHS Rebuttal to the Associated Press (AP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update (8.14.2009 &#8211; 12:45am Pacific Time):I just received an email from a press officer with the Department of Health Media Centre who has informed me that their &#8220;press notice distribution system doesn&#8217;t allow us to just send notices and statements on specific issues. And we really do only respond to media queries. We have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/08/13/in-their-own-words-defending-the-nhs</link>
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		<title>Time Magazine: &#8220;Why Exercise Won&#8217;t Make You Thin&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalist John Cloud takes an in-depth look at our society&#8217;s current health problem from the angle of exercise and diet in this week&#8217;s Time article titled Why Exercise Won&#8217;t Make You Thin. Notice I didn&#8217;t write weight problem. The difference is that ideal weight perceptions have fluctuated randomly in cultures throughout the ages and, more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/08/07/time-magazine-why-exercise-wont-make-you-thin</link>
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		<title>Designing a Proper Home Media System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of days I&#8217;ve had a lot of time to think about the design goals for a home media system. I firmly believe we possess all the technological bits and pieces to make this system a reality but I have yet to find anyone having published an article describing a real-world implementation.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/08/05/designing-a-proper-home-media-system</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 Activation Spoofed (not cracked) via SLIC 2.1 and OEM Master Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone surprised that news hit the web (Lifehacker, Neowin, Download Squad, Gizmodo, Softpedia, Ars Technica) today that Windows 7 can now be activated using the OEM BIOS hardmod/softmod method? I&#8217;m certainly not. The fact that Windows 7 can now be activated even though it won&#8217;t be available to the general public until October 22, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/07/30/windows-7-activation-spoofed-not-cracked-via-slic-2-1-and-oem-master-key</link>
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		<title>YouTube: The Anatomy of a Home Theater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick video titled &#8220;The Anatomy of a Home Theater&#8221; I put together of us putting up the home theater over the last few days. It&#8217;s not fully ready yet. We are waiting for custom red-colored theater curtains to be completed that will eventually surround the screen. We&#8217;ll also be adding/replacing a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/06/16/youtube-the-anatomy-of-a-home-theater</link>
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		<title>Nokia E71x Day 5: Bluetooth, Google Maps, YouTube, Web Browsing, and VoIP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 5 with my Nokia E71x involved Bluetooth, Google Maps, YouTube, web browsing, and VoIP.
Bluetooth
Old Nokia handsets including the E61 and 6620 always had trouble with in-car Bluetooth systems. For example, the E61 pairs properly and shows caller-id information but does not show battery status, network signal strength, and has trouble with calls dialed from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/06/09/nokia-e71x-day-5-bluetooth-google-maps-youtube-web-browsing-and-voip</link>
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		<title>Nokia E71x Day 1: Introduction &amp; Initial Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was contacted by a Nokia representative regarding my interest in evaluating an AT&#038;T-branded Nokia E71x. Initially I was hesitant because I don&#8217;t know the first thing about writing a product review. Yet I&#8217;ve always found reviews done on other sites focusing too heavily on features that don&#8217;t mean much to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/06/05/nokia-e71x-day-1-introduction-initial-impressions</link>
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		<title>How I Fixed a Corrupted USB Drive Flash Asking to Be Formatted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is by no means a comprehensive solution to the problem of corrupted USB drives asking to be formatted under Windows once plugged in. I accidentally removed my Corsair 32gig USB flash drive without selecting the option to &#8220;safely remove&#8221; it earlier this evening. My heart sank as every computer I tried the drive on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/04/28/how-i-fixed-a-corrupted-usb-drive-flash-asking-to-be-formatted</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3.0.8, PayPal, and Crashes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran into a problem of logging into PayPal using Firefox 3.0.8 on Windows Vista SP1 (x86) resulting in an immediate crash. As the crashes started this afternoon upgrading to Firefox 3.0.9 didn&#8217;t solve it. The next step was to try running Firefox in safe-mode so any recent plugin installations causing problems might get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/04/21/firefox-308-paypal-and-crashes</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8.0 (IE8) today at the Mix09 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, in a statement said, &#8220;With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.&#8221; It looks like Microsoft&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/03/19/microsoft-releases-internet-explorer-8-today</link>
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		<title>Hotmail POP3 Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s Hotmail webmail service has finally enabled worldwide POP access so people can use the Outlook, Thunderbird, and iPhones of the world to grab their email. While this move is a little late it is still welcome. At the moment many people in my immediate tech circle use their Hotmail address because of Microsoft&#8217;s tight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/03/14/hotmail-pop3-access</link>
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		<title>Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quick summary of congenital diaphragmatic hernias was presented a few weeks ago in morning rounds. 

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		<link>http://blog.hishamrana.com/2009/02/26/congenital-diaphragmatic-hernias</link>
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