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	<title>Unquiet Desperation</title>
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	<description>The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation. Where&#039;s the Fun in That?</description>
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		<title>Ill-gotten gains: Birthday Loot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I turned 39 on Friday, and in keeping with the tradition of frustrating the people who wanted to get me something, I told them I had no idea what I wanted for my birthday.  It all worked out for the best. Here, in no particular order, is the rundown of birthday loot.
Clothes: What was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/03/07/ill-gotten-gains-birthday-loot/</link>
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		<title>Tricksters, Operations, Birthdays, Interviews, Reviews, Winners, and Where to Lay the Blame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, my people&#8230;

My apologies for missing my TRICKSTERS update for the last two weeks. Between a big event last Thursday and my wife&#8217;s operation this week, I&#8217;ve just not had the energy to put out a good episode. I&#8217;ve written three lousy episodes, but as they are sub-par, I&#8217;m going to hold on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/03/05/tricksters-operations-birthdays-interviews-reviews-winners-and-where-to-lay-the-blame/</link>
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		<title>PyCon, Day Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hacked. Went to two talks on Mercurial. Hacked. Ate. Flew Home. Unpacked. Tired. Wrap-up later this week.
Good night.

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		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/21/pycon-day-five/</link>
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		<title>PyCon, Day Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was made of twenty-four karat win.

We had three excellent keynotes, but the one that stood out was Mark Shuttleworth&#8217;s discussion of Cadence, Quality, and Design, in which he discussed the discipline of development on a timed schedule, and how it has helped the Ubuntu teams.
David Beazley&#8217;s Understanding the Python GIL was as crunchy as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/20/pycon-day-four/</link>
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		<title>PyCon, Day Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first official day of the conference, and it was packed. The started off with a carb-filled wonderland of treats (croissants, various breads and cakes) and coffee leading into the three keynotes. 

Van Lindberg formally opened the convention.
Steve Holden1 gave an overview of what&#8217;s new at the Python Software Foundation, and what&#8217;s coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PyCon, Day Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My tutorial today, Testing Websites With Python and Selenium, was not as promising as I hoped. In fact, I was rather disappointed with the comedy of errors that ensued.

The talk started 30 minutes late.
We spent the first hour configuring our computers, something we could have done before the talk if there had been any notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/18/pycon-day-two/</link>
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		<title>PyCon, Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The area around the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta is very much as I remember it. The last time I was in town, it was for DragonCon 2006. That was in August. It&#8217;s colder now: February will do that. This morning&#8217;s sky is slate gray; it reminds me of home. This is different: I remember [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/17/pycon-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Natalie Metzger&#8217;s Improper Use of Slugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, Natalie put out a call for idea for a new art series called Improper Use of Slugs. I&#8217;m happy to say that one of my suggestions was accepted, and you can check out the results on her site.
The suggestion?  Thumbtacks. 
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		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/16/natalie-metzgers-improper-use-of-slugs/</link>
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		<title>2010 Con Schedule and Ep. #2 of TRICKSTERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve worked out which conventions I&#8217;ll be attending this year. Sadly, Origins will not be one of them&#8230;my family has a vacation planned for that week and I&#8217;m going to have to miss it this year.
I&#8217;ll be at:

 PyCon: Feb 17-21 in Atlanta, GA
 Balticon 44: May 28-30 in Balimore, MD
 GenCon: Aug 6-8 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/12/2010-con-schedule-and-ep-2-of-tricksters/</link>
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		<title>About Tricksters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I got involved with Podiobooks.com, people have asked when they might see fiction from me hit the Interwebs. Today&#8217;s the day.
If you head over to The Secret Lair, you will find the first episode of a work of serialized fiction called Tricksters.  It&#8217;s based on a writing prompt from two years ago, when Kris and I were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2010/02/04/about-tricksters/</link>
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