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		<title>Wrangling Another Gremlin (WAG)</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/361</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being someone who &#8220;works with computers,&#8221;  Family and friends quite often fling random personal hardware into my lap to &#8220;fix when you have some spare time.&#8221; 
This is one of those spare times.
I&#8217;ve seen the patient (a late model Dell Inspiron, well apportioned with several hardware options, no signs of abuse or even heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>boarding basics</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/345</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just a pet peeve, but when I hear people in media verbally giving out links, they make a couple of mistakes.  These mistakes bleed over into the habits of  non-media people,and it&#8217;s a really big mess after a few years.
Number one is the nomenclature of the symbols on the keyboard.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASMW &#8212; Alexa Ray Joel</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/342</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brought to you by: #ASMW Uber Tracker
I completely stumbled onto Alexa Ray Joel, and liked what I was hearing, before it started to dawn on me exactly *who* I was hearing.  I have a feeling that this is the kind of thing she would prefer from new fans.  
This is the first single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASMW &#8211; Jets Overhead</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/336</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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This week, I was listening to a band called Jets Overhead, who have a phychedelic, contemplative sound that combines current alt-rock with a strong nod toward the heavily folk-inspired seventies period of rock.  
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		<title>VD Epoch 13</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/318</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[vegetarian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[friday the thirteenth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This year is the only time that VD will be coupled with the Unix epoch rolling to sequential number.  Of course, the two are a few hours apart, but hey, any excuse to celebrate dorky geek trivia *and* being a more-or-less willing target for a heavily-armed, floating infant deserves a nod.  
For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Average user has spoken</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/315</link>
		<comments>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/315#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The preliminary screenshots of Windows 7 look just like KDE, so the guys at zdnet labs did their own take on the microsoft mojave project:

Thought I&#8217;d share.
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		<title>Inauguration</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/306</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the inauguration of Obama as the 44th president of the U.S.  
I was having some discussions about the job that he&#8217;s undertaking, and wanted to put some things down.  
The job is not easy, does not pay an amazing salary, and changes the life of the job holder for life.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rights, and lefts, tend to bruise</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/281</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the general presidential election, I saw two articles that sort of fragmented a lot of the feelings about the day&#8217;s events.
I was reading this article about the new hope, the new era, the transformation in the daily lives of everyone, everywhere.  This grand news showing that people really are people, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Zune</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/298</link>
		<comments>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/298#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again, Microsoft&#8217;s Zune is FAIL.  
In the wee hours of this morning, all of the 30gb model Zune music players hit a system glitch.  A power cycle will not clear it.  There are some reports that opening the unit and pulling the battery cables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook apps</title>
		<link>http://gettinggruntled.com/archives/290</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gruntled</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting back in touch with a bunch of long-lost people lately on Facebook, which is the time that Social Media is at its very best.  
I&#8217;ve been running into some issues lately with several apps (not just this one) where some of the basic functionality just does not work with Opera.
I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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