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	<description>A whole bunch of nought thought by Chris Cummer</description>
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		<title>I sense a trend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digg vs. Reddit. At the time of this posting, Vancouver favours Reddit while Calgary favours Digg. And the CBC shows all those kiddies what&#8217;s what.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/07/23/i-sense-a-trend/</link>
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		<title>On password security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is commonly thought that secure passwords must have a minimum length, should contain odd characters, a mix of numbers and letters, be not dictionary words, and so-forth. And I suppose all of that is mostly valid: if your password is &#8220;cat&#8221; you&#8217;ll likely fall to a dictionary attack fairly quickly. However a secure password [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/07/14/on-password-security/</link>
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		<title>Old is Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected this site and blog for quite some time now but this afternoon I upgraded the WordPress install, upgraded stale plugins, and removed some old, unused ones. And in the process installed WPTouch, a plugin that provides a mobile-friendly UI for WordPress sites. And true to the Law of Unintended Consequences, the mobile site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/07/13/old-is-ugly/</link>
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		<title>Why No Comments?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marco Arment concisely sums up why I turned comments off on this blog: Plenty of sites get good commments, but it’s not the common case. I can’t identify any general metrics on whether you’ll have good comments, but writing opinion pieces to an audience of tech people is definitely not a recipe for civil, intelligent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/06/17/why-no-comments/</link>
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		<title>How Many WalMarts in an Oil Spill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Re: the BP Gulf oil spill: I think we need to start measuring this one in something other than barrels. When it gets to 50 trillion barrels, its gonna be hard for the average person to digest. Lets start saying the spill has reached 7000 Walmarts of oil, people would understand that. And then the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/05/26/how-many-walmarts-in-an-oil-spill/</link>
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		<title>Rspec with Rails3 beta and Rspec 2 beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem: running spec filename.rb against a project built on Rails 3 beta and using Rspec 2 beta generated the following error (I can&#8217;t imagine why there were any issues): /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:209:in `require&#8217;: no such file to load &#8212; spec/adapters/mock_frameworks/rspec (LoadError) from /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:209:in `require&#8217; from /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in `load_dependency&#8217; from /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:209:in `require&#8217; from /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:312:in `plugin_mock_framework&#8217; from /Users/chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:138:in `run_examples&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/05/17/rspec-with-rails3-beta-and-rspec-2-beta/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Must have an entity&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Playing around with CoreData today, I started to get the following error message: 2010-05-09 10:27:28.568 Climb_It[2330:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception &#8216;NSInvalidArgumentException&#8217;, reason: &#8216;executeFetchRequest:error: A fetch request must have an entity.&#8217; This was being thrown as a result of some initialization code in my AscentMethod class, and everything in the code looked good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2010/05/09/must-have-an-entity/</link>
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		<title>Coding Horror Knocked Down: A Tale of Back-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time today an issue at Coding Horror&#8216;s web host took the site down. It appears it might have been due to the loss of the database, and it also appears that while the hosting company said they were making data back-ups, in fact they weren&#8217;t. That&#8217;s brutal. I feel for Jeff Atwood et al. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2009/12/11/coding-horror-knocked-down-a-tale-of-back-ups/</link>
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		<title>GeekTool and iCal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use GeekTool to display quite a few items on my desktop, it&#8217;s a fantastic utility. For fun I&#8217;ve put together a Ruby script for use with GeekTool that displays iCal events: GeekCal. Download the script, make it executable, set it up as a shell script in GeekTool et voila. Calendar events on the desktop.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2009/12/04/geektool-and-ical/</link>
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		<title>Redfin on VC Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, in years of reading TechCrunch (and much of that against my better judgement), this is the best post TC has ever posted: Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital. VCs are good at asking questions. They are unimplicated in your dumb decisions, unmoved by your original sense of mission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2009/11/18/redfin-on-vc-questions/</link>
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