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	<description>Collecting the internet&#039;s garbage in O(n)</description>
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		<title>Prefixes, not that complicated.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The use of prefixes that can be bound to arbitrary strings then combined with
other strings to form a third set of string is IMHO too complicated for a
technology intended for broad Web deployment (e.g. in text/html).
Bug 7670 &#8211; Use of prefixes is too complicated for a Web technology
As stated I&#8217;m not really convinced. A few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/09/22/prefixes-not-that-complicated/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Microdata, now with more understanding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m giving this whole HTML5 microdata a shot for real. 4475 HTML pages of it in fact.
After reading what Hixie wrote, tried creating a new sample. Didn&#8217;t feel any stranger then the markup for RDFa. From a typing perspective, it is annoying to have to type the whole URI, from a reading perspective it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/08/18/understanding-microdata-now-with-more-understanding/</link>
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		<title>Trying to understand Microdata? RDFa?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been trying to follow the RDFa, microdata messwork. This isn&#8217;t academic. I have a nice open ticket that says &#8220;Insert inline metadata into O&#8217;Reilly Catalog pages&#8221; which is due in a large release at the end of September.
Do I expect Google to index my page a whole lot better? Nah. (That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re doing complete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/08/13/trying-to-understand-microdata-rdfa/</link>
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		<title>shutdown -r now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running the most recent Ubuntu builds leads to odd things happening from time to time. This mornings little bit of joy was:
-bash: shutdown: command not found
It seems that somewhere in the last aptitude dist-upgrade the upstart package had been dropped from the selected list. For those wondering upstart provides a large number of the functions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/07/14/shutdown-r-now/</link>
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		<title>Returning a Power Adapter for an External Hard drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Replying to your email can you please provide me with the following information that the RMA department is required for us to ask our customers.
It’s a power adapter, and the cable doesn’t fit in the power adapter socket.
Computer Type:
Well, some of my computers are White, some are Black, two are Metal, and one is blue, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/05/21/returning-a-power-adapter-for-an-external-hard-drive/</link>
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		<title>Gratuitous Baby Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I finally managed to get the blog started a few things have happened. The most important being that back on January 20th I became a father! My wife points out that it is now April and that I said before that I would post once a week at least. Right, didn’t do that. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/04/02/gratuitous-baby-photos/</link>
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		<title>gc.isenabled() == True</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, maybe the 7th try is the charm. This will be at least my 7th blog like entity. Perhaps this time it will go better.  Other blogging attempts have been, “The Flickering Fluorescent”, DNS lapsed. LiveJournal, which has been updated a grand total of 3 times… in 7 years. I’m sure there were other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gavin.carothers.name/2009/01/17/gc-isenabled-true/</link>
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