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		<title>Android!  Android!  Android Ultimate!  Only $3,000!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The total cost of ownership of an Android Ultimate from Verizon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2010/04/android-android-android-ultimate-only-3000/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Operation Not Permitted&#8221; and the FAT-32 System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;chown&#8220;, &#8220;chgrp&#8220;, &#8220;ln&#8220;, and &#8220;chmod&#8220;, behave oddly on fat-32, vfat, and ntfs file systems.  The &#8220;Operation not permitted&#8221; message may mean &#8220;This type of filesystem does not support that operation&#8221;.
Here&#8217;s the example:  I want to create a file and own the file.  I can&#8217;t seem to do it.
Step 1:  Confusion!  I don&#8217;t own the files [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2009/12/operation-not-permitted-and-the-fat-32-system/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter on Autodriving Cars to Representative Honda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





Dear Honorable Representative Honda:
Silicon Valley needs an absolute immunity that limits damages for auto-driving cars to $10 million per death or injury.
Silicon Valley is looking for another trillion dollars worth of growth to fuel.  One great idea is limited by the absence of barely-controversial legal framework.   You could provide this framework, enable use to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2009/06/open-letter-on-autodriving-cars-to-representative-honda/</link>
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		<title>7 minute talk follow-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some follow-ups, corrections, and expansions.  Being correct takes effort.
First, someone very knowledgeable on the internals noted that I was sloppy with the terms &#8216;datastore&#8216;, &#8216;GBase&#8216;, &#8216;GoogleBase&#8216;, &#8216;GQL&#8216;, and &#8216;BigTable&#8216;.  Mea culpa.  Datastore is the most generic term and the specific one for Google App Engine is referred to as the &#8220;App Engine datastore&#8220;.  The App [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/08/7-minute-talk-follow-up/</link>
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		<title>Google App Engine &#8211; 7 minute talk</title>
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[I gave this talk at the BayPiggies Meeting on August 14, 2008.  The 'Newbie Nugget' talk ran about seven minutes and used only spoken words.  This is my recollection of what I said.]
I drove here today.  I got in my car, used the six speed manual transmission, steering wheel, and pedals.  I had to know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/08/google-app-engine-7-minute-talk/</link>
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		<title>KDE bug list&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those few brave souls working on KDE 4, this is my list of bugs I noticed in the first couple hours.  Some may be viewed as belonging to other subsystems.  This is installing KDE 4.1, 32 bit, on a new T-6836 laptop.

 On live CD, font on &#8220;read me&#8221; came up as unreadable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/07/kde-bug-list/</link>
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		<title>KDE 4:  Crud and the Quest for &#8220;The One Last and True Windowing System&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
80% of effects come from 20% of causes
 &#8212; Pareto Principle by Vilfredo Frederico Damaso Pareto, 1906
90% of Everything is Crud
&#8211; Sturgeon&#8217;s Law by Theodore Sturgeon, 1956
100% of Everything is Crud
&#8211; Linear extrapolation of above, 2006.
There seems to have been a natural tendency for us to look at past as some magical time when quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/07/kde-4-crud-and-the-quest-for-the-one-last-and-true-windowing-system/</link>
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		<title>Buying a new laptop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went out and bought a new laptop, having succesfully proven that driving over a laptop is not a good idea.
First, I watched SlickDeals for a reasonable, cheap system.  I&#8217;ve found that laptops have a short obsolescence period, and buying near the bottom end is best.  Second, I went to Best Buy and picked it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/07/buying-a-new-laptop/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Productivity Tip!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In hopes of making a more productive utopia, I share this tip:
DO NOT RUN OVER YOUR LAPTOP WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE.
This has caused a noted decrease in my productivity.   A corollary for advanced production specialists follows:
DO NOT RUN OVER LAPTOP IN THE  MORNING WHEN THE BACK-UP DRIVE WILL BE DELIVERED THAT AFTERNOON.
I hope this bulletin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/07/todays-productivity-tip/</link>
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		<title>Freeze Test Ice Cubes</title>
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Problem: Sometimes frozen food melts and refreezes.
Refrigerated trucks don&#8217;t.  Freezer doors stay open.  The freezer case goes out.  Groceries get left in the car for a long trip.  The power company decides to play power line roulette.  Later, the problem is fixed, and the food freezes again.  It&#8217;s hard to know if food thawed out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog/2008/05/freeze-test-ice-cubes/</link>
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