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		<title>Comcast abusing DNS</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2009/07/17/comcast-abusing-dns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize I&#8217;m probably way late to the game here, but for whatever reason I did not notice this problem until today. Comcast has started responding to bogus DNS requests, sending people to some crap-tastic search portal. Up until now Comcast hasn&#8217;t given me too much to complain about. The service is reliable, the speed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macs Make Everything Easier</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/08/09/macs-make-everything-easier/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2008/08/09/macs-make-everything-easier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seen while attempting to repair a disk&#8230; 2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: 2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk1s3” because the following error was encountered: Filesystem verify or repair failed. 2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: That was the entire error, datestamps scattered around exactly like that. Steve Jobs would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>info pages</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/07/23/info-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more annoying things to come about in the Linux/open source world is the use of &#8220;info&#8221; pages, replacing the old workhorse standard of &#8220;man&#8221; pages. In doing so, developers often ignore documenting crucial elements in a man page, instead leaving this gem at the end: SEE ALSO The full documentation for date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Reviews, Amazon</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2008/06/08/online-reviews-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2008/06/08/online-reviews-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I read a NYTimes article linked to from digg about the quality and quantity of online reviews. (If that link doesn&#8217;t work, here&#8217;s the link on digg, although be warned that the comments section is full of oh-so-funny kitchen/women jokes..) Personally, I enjoy reading some reviews before buying a product. I usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Internet</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2007/11/01/dear-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2007/11/01/dear-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Dee Blog: Dear Internet: Then, I click on the link, and all there is behind the link is a fucking 2 minute news video or something. No article, no summary, just a video. My favorite is when the news sites put a 30 second unstoppable/skippable commercial before the video, show the 10 seconds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printed page count</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2007/10/26/printed-page-count/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2007/10/26/printed-page-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Firefox, and other applications, why must I go to print preview to see how many printed pages a document would span? The print dialog&#8217;s &#8220;print range&#8221; section would be the ideal place for this information.]]></description>
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		<title>Murals with topless Indian women to be covered in B.C. Capitol</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2007/10/23/murals-with-topless-indian-women-to-be-covered-in-bc-capitol/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2007/10/23/murals-with-topless-indian-women-to-be-covered-in-bc-capitol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess British Columbia isn&#8217;t far enough to go to get away from insanity. Rather than educating people to be cool with the mural, and with art, they chose to cover it up permanently. Yeah, I&#8217;m intolerant of intolerance, it&#8217;s a vicious cycle.]]></description>
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		<title>Public nudity</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2007/10/02/public-nudity/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2007/10/02/public-nudity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven J. Howatt, 56, prefers gardening in the nude After several complaints, the Happy Valley City Council has scheduled a public meeting Tuesday night on a proposal to outlaw nudity visible from public locations. Violators would be subject to a $1,000 fine. What is the issue people have with nudity? How would sane folks go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveys</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2007/03/09/surveys/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2007/03/09/surveys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting pretty tired of being asked to fill out or answer phone surveys every time I deal with a company. Isn&#8217;t it enough I spent my money with them? I have to get random phone calls and/or pop-ups and/or letters too?]]></description>
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		<title>Payday loan companies make me sad</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/12/01/payday-loan-companies-make-me-sad/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/12/01/payday-loan-companies-make-me-sad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More controls urged on payday lenders The one-time fees translate into exorbitantly high interest rates on a standard annual-percentage-rate basis, sometimes as much as 800 percent. &#8230; The average payday borrower pays back $793 for a $325 loan, the report said.]]></description>
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		<title>UltraDNS part 2</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/10/03/ultradns-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/10/03/ultradns-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad marketing tactics: UltraDNS has been hung up on so many times that they&#8217;re now just saying they&#8217;re &#8220;a company that does DNS&#8221; when they cold call you. They still won&#8217;t let you off the line, you have to hang up on &#8216;em mid-sentence, because they just won&#8217;t shut up even after you tell them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argh</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/07/18/argh/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/07/18/argh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonics sold : Seattle &#8220;deserves an NBA franchise,&#8221; Bennett said. Argh. What does he think we did to deserve one of those? With any luck we can fix that situation, and they&#8217;ll leave before we are forced to pay for another new stadium.]]></description>
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		<title>Search engines for programmers</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/07/06/search-engines-for-programmers/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/07/06/search-engines-for-programmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I&#8217;ve noticed, and I&#8217;m sure many of you have noticed, is how hard it is to search for documents containing programming terms such as &#8220;operator!=&#8221; or &#8220;read()&#8221;. The results on Google are completely worthless. Lycos results are similarly worthless. I was surprised to find that AltaVista seems to return relevant results for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kodak EasyShare Z612, Best Buy</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/05/30/kodak-easyshare-z612-best-buy/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/05/30/kodak-easyshare-z612-best-buy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 02:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I picked up a Kodak EasyShare Z612. It was $379.99 at Best Buy, but I&#8217;d check other places first ($56 restocking fee) It&#8217;s a 6.1 megapixel camera with a lithium-ion battery, 12x optical zoom, optical image stabilization, and it can be operated in a &#8220;fully&#8221; manual mode. That is, you can set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic packaging</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/05/29/plastic-packaging/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/05/29/plastic-packaging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 22:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a SanDisk SD card for my camera, and it was packed in that hard plastic packaging you see on electronics and other products &#8212; many items at Costco use it. It&#8217;s hard to cut, it&#8217;s hard to tear. It&#8217;s basically completely anti-consumer(anti-user). It turns out, it&#8217;s so hard to cut that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UltraDNS</title>
		<link>http://dpk.net/2006/03/15/ultradns/</link>
		<comments>http://dpk.net/2006/03/15/ultradns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UltraDNS employs some of the most relentless telemarketers ever. You tell them you&#8217;re not interested, they pull the &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why you wouldn&#8217;t be interested!&#8221; routine. You hang up, they call back in a few weeks. Yeah: I think I won&#8217;t be recommending anyone use them (not that my recommendation carries much weight).]]></description>
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