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	<description>Normal is a variable. Bitching is a constant.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Installing Ruby on Rails (RoR) with RadRails on Fedora 6</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2007/02/18/installing-ruby-on-rails-ror-with-radrails-on-fedora-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ruby on Rails</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few weeks I've been learning Ruby on Rails. While it's not necessary to switch to Linux to develop in Ruby, I decided this was a good time to make the switch. I added a second hard drive to my PC for Linux (and I should have written that up, as well - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Gadgets 101</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>JavaScript and XML</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Home Page, one of Google's many beta projects, offers programmers the opportunity to create gadgets that users can add to their personalized Home Page. Since a simple gadget can be created using only HTML, gadgets create an easy entry point for novice programmers.
Yet programmers can also create gadgets that use cutting-edge Ajax interfaces. Ajax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stir-braising: Fast and healthy home cooking</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/04/03/stir-braising-fast-and-healthy-home-cooking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Eating and Cooking</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been the cook in our family since the early days. In grade school, one of my kids was assigned a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that said, The best food my mom makes is... Joe crossed out mom and changed it to dad.
I was lucky in that my wife agreed that having an evening meal together was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food in the news: Fat, Aspartame, and Sliced Apples</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/02/12/food-in-the-news-fat-aspartame-and-sliced-apples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Nutrition</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an unusually large amount of nutrition news in the New York Times this week, starting off with Wednesday's Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds.
The study's results were published in three different articles this week in JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association, one on heart disease, one on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics and the Prisoner's Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/01/29/ethics-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weishaarisms</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While exchanging comments with all-around good guy Randy Brandt in response to Plato had it backwards, I got off on a tangent about ethics. In the comment I said:

Moreover, I suspect that the major features of ethics that we agree on are based on enlightened self-interest. By enlightened I mean a broad, mature viewpoint - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Template tags vs. $wp_query</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/01/26/template-tags-vs-wp_query/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>WordPress</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress template tags were designed to give novice users the power of the PHP programming language in their page templates, and they work quite well for that.
Once you know a little PHP, however, using the template tags gets tedious for three reasons:

most of the tags only work within The Loop, which prevents using them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World is Flat</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/01/23/the-world-is-flat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Personal Economics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman tries to explain what just happened in his book, The World is Flat, and he gets a lot of it right.
It boils down to this: organizations that are tightly controlled from the top simply can't compete with groups of individuals free to collaborate. What has flattened the world in the last 15 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NutritionData.com</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2006/01/01/nutritiondatacom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Eating and Cooking</category>
	<category>Nutrition</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're interested in food and nutrition, you'll want to know about a web site called NutritionData.com. Developed by Ron and Lori Johnson of Casa Grande, Arizona, the site provides several free tools based on nutrition information from the US Department of Agriculture and findings from peer-reviewed nutrition studies. The site has a very high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach the controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2005/12/30/teach-the-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jasoose.com/2005/12/30/teach-the-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Kansas, so I know a few people who find the idea of evolution disheartening. Recently they've been saying we should teach the controversy.
I agree, but I think schools should teach the controversy in social studies class, not in science class. A good way to do it would be to study the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plato had it backwards</title>
		<link>http://www.jasoose.com/2005/12/17/plato-had-it-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jasoose.com/2005/12/17/plato-had-it-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Weishaar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weishaarisms</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Knowledge and Truth</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I listened to the 84th and last lecture in The Teaching Company's series, Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition. 
Although I'd taken a number of philosophy courses in college, they tended to concentrate on specific philosophers or schools or historical periods. At last I know enough about western philosophical thought over its entire [...]]]></description>
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