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            <title><![CDATA[New Semester]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[school]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[First day of the new semester was Monday. I&#39;m no longer taking Physical Ed and instead I have Modern World History. <img src="http://poots.com/peoples/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-undecided.gif"  border="0"  alt="Undecided"  title="Undecided" /> It&#39;s full of freshmen. I feel out of place. Hopefully it&#39;s easy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Not much content]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:34:32 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[digg]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[twitter]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[food]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>People have been bitching about Digg for a long time, and it looks like they&#39;re finally going to <a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=474"  target="_blank"  title="Dupes &amp; ongoing updates to Digg&rsquo;s promotional algorithm">do something about it</a>. I tried uncooked Top Ramen a few minutes ago. It was satisfying.</p><p>Maybe this should have been a Twitter update. <img src="http://poots.com/peoples/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-undecided.gif"  border="0"  alt="Undecided"  title="Undecided" /> </p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Christmas!]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:53:58 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[amarok]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[windows]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[winamp]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[ubuntu]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[songbird]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[school]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[recipes]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[open source]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[mediamonkey]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[ipod]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[internet]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[cooking]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[christmas]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[books]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c274/geekening/Web_Use/tutsibota.gif"  border="0"  alt="Tutsi Bota"  title="Tutsi Bota"  hspace="5"  vspace="3"  width="158"  height="260"  align="right" />Surprisingly, it wasn&#39;t that bad. My mom is becoming quite the internet user, so she managed to get a <a href="http://haztevegetariano.com/recipe/1346"  target="_blank"  title="Pasta y Vegetales">tasty recipe</a> for a pasta dish. She also cooked a ham thing to make it more Christmas-y but no one ate it. We all had pozole instead <img src="http://poots.com/peoples/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif"  border="0"  alt="Laughing"  title="Laughing" />. A whole bunch of people came over and hogged my wireless connection. Why the fuck would you bring a laptop to a Christmas dinner? I felt uncomfortable giving away my password for some reason. We didn&#39;t have that many gifts to exchange. I got a Tutsi Bota from my cousin in M&eacute;xico. It&#39;s this boot-shaped thing that&#39;s full of Tootsie Pops. There&#39;s also a few Tootise Rolls. I&#39;ve only had it for a few hours and I&#39;m almost through with it. I didn&#39;t go to sleep until around 8:00am today because I had a pretty interesting card game going on with my uncles. They got too drunk to drive home so they stayed in our living room. They didn&#39;t complain; the HBO softcore porn kept them happy. They said I should stay and watch but that&#39;d be a downgrade from the variety available on a high-speed internet connection.</p><p align="justify">I finally got around to organizing a bunch of my music (over 50GB) so I can sync it with my iPod. I hate iTunes so I had to look for an alternative. I don&#39;t like Winamp that much and Songbird would not recognize the device. So I had to go with <a href="http://www.mediamonkey.com/"  target="_blank"  title="Free Media Jukebox, Music Manager, CD Ripper &amp; Converter">MediaMonkey</a>. It works pretty well, but I don&#39;t like the interface or how it messes up the tags. I wish more of my Windows apps had an awesome open source alternative so I can use Ubuntu as my main OS. Amarok handles iPods like nothing. I&#39;m going to get started reading <strong>The Invisible Man</strong>. We have to do a report thing for AP English and it&#39;s due when we return from break. I hate being forced to read books.&nbsp; </p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[One more thing...]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[apple]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[college]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[concert]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[girls]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[sad]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[technology]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[ac/dc]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>It saddens me to hear about Steve Jobs&rsquo; decision to transfer the whole keynote thing to senior vice president Phil Schiller. I don&#39;t even know who that guy is. I&#39;m not alone. The Fortune website had to <a href="http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/20/after-steve-jobs-who-runs-apple/"  target="_blank"  title="After Steve Jobs, who runs Apple?">put together a small profile</a> for each of the excecutives so us regular folk can get to know &#39;em. If someone is going to replace Steve, they&#39;ve got a huge challenge. I hear he&#39;s <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/top_7_stevenote_moments"  target="_blank"  title="Top 8 Stevenote Moments">really good</a>. </p><p>I&#39;ve been too busy to update. The sad thing is, it&#39;s not the type of busy that you&#39;ll consider me actually <em>doing</em> things, but the type of busy where I&#39;m not doing anything. Make sense? I&#39;ve been hit with a severe case of senioritis. I guess I&#39;m doing good because the school sent out bad grades in the mail and I didn&#39;t get any. So mine are good?</p><p>I went to an amazing AC/DC concert on December 8th at the Great Western Forum here in Los Angeles. It was simply an awesome night. They played the crowd favorites - TNT, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Back in Black, etc - along with four tracks from their new album, which also <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/23506955/review/23589010/black_ice"  target="_blank"  title="AC/DC: Review: Rolling Stone">turned out to be good</a>. With Highway to Hell as a closing song, no one wanted the night to end.&nbsp;</p><p>I might bitch out of the college thing. I don&#39;t think it&#39;s for me. Watching The O.C makes me want it, though. <img src="http://poots.com/peoples/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-undecided.gif"  border="0"  alt="Undecided"  title="Undecided" /></p><p>There&#39;s also a girl in my life now. And I couldn&#39;t be happier. </p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New President]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:02:05 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[government]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[president]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[usa]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[win]]></dc:subject>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama is president-elect. We can all shit bricks now.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inb4 Noob]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:39:11 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[nero]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[noob]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[dvd]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[I&#39;m having a terrible time figuring out how to burn DVDs.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S Election]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:53:39 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[election]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[nader]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[obama]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[vote]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[president]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m supposed to vote for Nader, according to the <a href="http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html"  target="_blank"  title="candidate calculator">candidate calculator</a>. </p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/122ksvt.jpg"  border="0"  alt="Nader"  title="Nader"  width="402"  height="407" /></p><p>Obama is my second choice, with 68%. What about you?</p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bandwidth Caps]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[comcast]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[internet]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[isp]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[time warner]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[With all the recent reports regarding <a href="http://www.crn.com/networking/210201376"  target="_blank"  title="Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Cap For Residental Customers">bandwidth caps</a>, I am beginning to worry. I downloaded the <a href="http://www.shaplus.com/bandwidth-meter/"  target="_blank"  title="ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter - Freeware to display bandwidth consumed for session, day and month">ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter</a> and am currently running it. It&#39;s only been 19 days and I&#39;ve consumed 205GB of bandwidth. That&#39;s not counting the other computer connected to my network or my Wii, although I don&#39;t think they count anyway. What am I supposed to do if Time Warner decides to follow suit and issue a bandwidth cap of 250GB/month? I&#39;m already paying $50.00 to have their Turbo service. This is scary shit.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[School So Far]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:56:13 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[band]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[college]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[school]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[ubuntu]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[firefox]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Haven&#39;t had the time to update. I got mad during the summer because I would have nothing to do during my free time and now I get mad because I have way too much to do. Advanced Placement classes are not that bad yet. I think Government is my favorite so far. I dropped my &quot;math analysis&quot; class so I could take biology. And biology is really easy so far. Did I just start a sentence with &quot;and&quot;? Yes, I did. </p><p>&nbsp;I was tripping balls earlier because I had not taken my SAT and SAT II tests. I didn&#39;t even know I was supposed to. I hate how they don&#39;t ever tell you anything about getting ready for college until you&#39;re a fucking senior. Well, nowadays they have this program where they start preparing you since middle school - making sure you take your required classes and what not. I wish I had that sort of help back then. Well, it turns out I don&#39;t have to take those tests if I&#39;m going to go to a community college and then transfer. I thought about it and that seems like a cheaper and easier way to achieve the same thing, so that&#39;ll be my route.</p><p>I think we&#39;re getting the band together again. Bassist isn&#39;t going to play for sure, lead guitar is really looking forward to it and drummer is indifferent. As for me, I just wish I had more time to play.&nbsp;</p><p>On a side note, I&#39;m really pissed about Ubuntu having to ship Firefox with a EULA. It&#39;s a slap in the face for the open source community. Even if it&#39;s technically not really an EULA, the mere fact that they have to make you agree to one is discomforting. I hope they get that fixed, or else I might not be upgrading to Intrepid Ibex.&nbsp;</p><p>Nah, I probably will anyway. <img src="http://poots.com/peoples/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif"  border="0"  alt="Laughing"  title="Laughing" /> </p>]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google Chrome]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[web]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[internet]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[google chrome]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[google]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[firefox]]></dc:subject>
		<dc:subject><![CDATA[browser wars]]></dc:subject>
            <description><![CDATA[So far, it&#39;s <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss"  target="_blank"  title="Speed test - Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari">blazing fast</a>. I haven&#39;t tested how it compares with other features (security, etc) but we&#39;ll soon find out. Firefox&#39;s advantage here is the 5,000+ add-ons that are available for it. It&#39;s going to take people some time to want to start developing for Google, and once they do that&#39;s when the real competition will begin. It just makes me sad how it took some people quite a bit of convincing to try out Firefox. And all the momentum (and <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39144/113/"  target="_blank"  title="Internet Explorer extends decline, Firefox climbs">market share</a>) they&#39;ve gained might be lost to Chrome.]]></description>
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