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	<title>Eric Biven’s Blog</title>
	<link>http://eric.biven.us</link>
	<description>...random thoughts (or lack thereof)</description>
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		<title>Canon: Get Your Linux Drivers Done&#8230; For Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Canon and other hardware manufacturers about getting their Linux drivers done for free.]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2010/02/06/canon-get-your-linux-drivers-done-for-free/</link>
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		<title>Taking Your Stuff With You, Securely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One issue you have to tackle when you're out contracting is how to have your own stuff.  My bookmarks, my plugins, my IRC client, my instant message client, my Skype, etc.  Installing those apps at every client site is time consuming and leaves residual information about you on your client's machine.  Not installing them means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2010/01/29/taking-your-stuff-with-you-securely/</link>
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		<title>Dear Kubuntu: I&#8217;m Leaving You for Another Distro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Dear John letter to Kubuntu.]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/12/27/dear-kubuntu-im-leaving-you-for-another-distro/</link>
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		<title>Stopping Ubuntu Beeps During Computer Shutdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop the system bell from going off on reboot.]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/12/15/stopping-ubuntu-beeps-during-computer-shutdown/</link>
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		<title>Kubuntu Jaunty and the Slow Trash Can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Complete instructions on how to work around the KDE 4.2.2 "slow trash can" problem.]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/10/27/kubuntu-jaunty-and-the-slow-trash-can/</link>
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		<title>My Dell Laptop is Trying to Sell Me a New Battery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an unexpected twist, my Dell Vostro 1700 laptop is trying to sell me a replacement battery.  For itself.]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/10/20/my-dell-laptop-is-trying-to-sell-me-a-new-battery/</link>
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		<title>Keyboard Copy/Paste in Eclipse on (K)Ubuntu Workaround</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the keyboard to copy/paste or cut/paste in Ubuntu/Kubuntu hasn't worked without two or more taps on the keys for too long.  I finally found a bug on launchpad that discusses the problem and confirms that I'm not the only person seeing it.  The bug was opened in April of 2008 and is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/09/30/keyboard-copypaste-in-eclipse-on-kubuntu-workaround/</link>
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		<title>Eight Months of Work, Over in Less Than Three Rounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the unique things about the various combat sports.  The massive amount of training that goes into it and how quickly it is all over.  I was in the gym for hours a day, seven days a week, for eight months and it culminated in three one minute rounds.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/08/10/eight-months-of-work-over-in-less-than-three-rounds/</link>
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		<title>Recently Popular &#8211; Recently Messed Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you probably found out (quite painfully), the Recently Popular WordPress plugin has had some issue of late.  I took some much-needed time tonight and ironed the wrinkles and released 0.4.8.3, which fixes many bugs that have been impacting people.  There was a brief stretch on 7-13-2009 that a 0.4.8.2 release was listed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/07/13/recently-popular-recently-messed-up/</link>
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		<title>How Important Is My Diet?  Very.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a canoe trip this past weekend, and needless to say my diet suffered.  Tremendously.  When I got back to the gym on Monday morning and went back to work I was dragging.  I haven't been that worn out and performed that poorly since the first couple of months I showed up at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eric.biven.us/2009/06/16/how-important-is-my-diet-very/</link>
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