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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget Dad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ranted a bit on Twitter back during the Olympics about the Proctor &#38; Gamble &#8220;Thanks Mom&#8221; campaign.  I can sum up my those dozen or so Tweets and my feelings on the matter in a few simple words&#8230; &#8220;Screw You P&#38;G.&#8221;
So, why am I going on about this again *now*?  Well, two reasons.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/07/29/dont-forget-dad/</link>
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		<title>From the mouths of babes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, she is supposed to be my baby&#8230; but at 10 years old she doesn&#8217;t like to be called that any longer.  I accept that I have to come to terms with that.  But worse than that (for me), she acts and speaks a whole lot more mature than even her 10 years!  What do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/07/15/from-the-mouths-of-babes/</link>
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		<title>The Bears, the Pitch and the Foul Ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am&#8230; in general, a sports fan.  Except possibly for hockey, I am not a sports &#8220;fanatic&#8221; (much to my wife&#8217;s appreciation, and probably to the chagrin of many major sports and their advertisers).  No place has my hot and cold fickleness been more apparent than it has been with baseball.  Baseball has broken my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/06/08/the-bears-the-pitch-and-the-foul-ball/</link>
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		<title>A Decade of My Princess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was May 30th, 2000 when you burst onto the scene.    Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals that night would pit the New Jersey Devils against the defending Stanley Cup champion Dallas Stars (a series the Devils would win in 6 games, a fitting tribute to your entry into the world).
At that time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/05/30/a-decade-of-my-princess/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day IS (and isn&#8217;t)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend is Memorial Day in the U.S. as most (if not all) of you know.  When I was a kid, this was (next to Xmas) one of my favorite holidays.  I helped my dad several times build floats for the Memorial Day Parade, I went with him on the Sunday two weeks  before to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/05/28/what-memorial-day-is-and-isnt/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Phones for Kids and Snooty People&#8217;s Opinions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why getting your child a cell phone does not make you a bad parent.  And why those that say it does... don't really matter.]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/05/17/of-mobile-phones-and-snooty-people/</link>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day, One Adoptee&#8217;s View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all the Moms out there.  New Moms, Old Moms, Grand Moms as well as the soon to be Moms.  But, for a bit of a change-up here, I want to throw out a special Thank You to two other Moms that often get left out, or worse get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/05/09/mothers-day-one-adoptees-view/</link>
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		<title>Beware&#8230;Facebook is officially broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that some people have felt this for some time already.  Others may not have quite caught on yet.  But Facebook, the Social Networking powerhouse is broken.  No the site isn&#8217;t down.  But rather than continuing to try and sneak features by people that they eventually catch on to and turn off in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/04/30/beware-facebook-is-broken/</link>
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		<title>That 70&#8217;s Show&#8230; no the real ones.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been looking for some time now for a post that wouldn&#8217;t require a soapbox or a ranting.  Just so tired of all that, and I wanted something a little &#8230; uh&#8230; lighthearted.  Then I found it.  It all starts out innocently enough.  Busymom gets an earworm which leads her to post this about a show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/04/07/that-70s-show-no-the-real-ones/</link>
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		<title>Will Miss You Hannah&#8230; Beat it Miley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure some will see me as harsh, and even suggest things like &#8220;look at it from her perspective&#8221; or &#8220;she is just a kid&#8221; but in all honesty, right now I don&#8217;t care.  Destiny Hope&#8230; excuse me&#8230; Miley Ray, I think forgot who put her where she is today, and gave her what she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/03/23/we-will-miss-you-hannah-but-beat-it-miley/</link>
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		<title>MommyBloggers&#8230; Has it become the beast that can&#8217;t be fed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat and pondered this for a day, deciding whether I dared to write it.  I mean, first of all the few people that still may actually read this are not the people I am talking about.  (Unless by some chance this gets spread to a few of the &#8220;wrong&#8221; people&#8230; then it may very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/03/16/mommybloggers-the-beast-that-cant-be-fed/</link>
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		<title>Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey&#8230; I have a blog.  Yeah, I didn&#8217;t forget it&#8230; but it certainly does look like I did.  However, a new look, new content, and hopefully a new attitude, will be coming this way&#8230; uh&#8230; soon.  I&#8217;ve got a lot of plans for it&#8230; just have to get to those darn details.




		
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		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/02/14/coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>20 people that think being bigots toward gays is OK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embarrassingly, yesterday the New Jersey Senate voted down the Same Sex Marriage Act, because with an incoming, proud bigot coming in as Governor, it became OK to hate &#8220;teh gays&#8221; again I guess.
State Senator Sean Kean (R), who lives in what he calls &#8220;the gayest district in New Jersey&#8221; voted &#8220;No&#8221; on gay marriage.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2010/01/08/20-people-that-think-being-bigots-toward-gays-is-ok/</link>
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		<title>Android Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing out WP ToGo, so I can blog on the go from Disney.  If you are reading this, then everything worked and I am all set.




		
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		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/06/12/android-test/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s so Gay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really tired of some of this bullshit.  I ran across a poll on Facebook last night.  The one asking &#8220;Should Gay Marriage be legalized?&#8221;  Now, I must admit&#8230; my initial response was &#8220;No.&#8221;
Why?  Well, heterosexual marriage doesn&#8217;t need to be &#8220;legalized,&#8221; interracial marriages, which was like the last generation&#8217;s version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/06/08/thats-so-gay/</link>
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		<title>What you like to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been lucky in that for the most part I have been able to work doing things that I enjoy doing.  Sometimes it meant getting paid for what I do, other times it meant doing it for fun.  Back in the late 90&#8217;s I did a website based on vacationing at the Jersey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/02/05/what-you-like-to-do/</link>
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		<title>She knows how to butter &#8216;em up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LatteGirl:  We have a new girl in our class
Me:  Oh, Yeah?
LatteGirl:  Yeah, she is from Korea and she is real nice.  But my teacher says she needs to be fattened up a little.
Me:  Why is that?
LatteGirl:  Because she is so tiny and skinny.  She is almost as skinny as mommy.
 
And I am now pretty sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/02/04/she-knows-how-to-butter-em-up/</link>
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		<title>TechParent Tuesday: Living in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been planning for quite some time now to bring back TechParent Tuesday, but I wanted to do something a little more focused than the radom reviews that I had been doing previously.  Now, unless you have been living under a rock for the past year or so, I am sure you are aware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/02/03/techparent-tuesday-living-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Monday Morning Analyis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, everybody and their brother will dissect this Superbowl game a million different ways.  While it was certainly an entertaining and exciting game, I just had no emotional interest in the game.  (IF there was a way for Warner and  Roethlisberger to both lose, then perhaps I would have had something to root for.)  No, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/02/02/monday-morning-analyis/</link>
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		<title>Medals gained and friendships lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, as I mentioned last week (has it really been a week already?  I have go to find a way to find more blogging time), LatteGirl went off to Lake Placid to compete in the ISI Lake Placid Championships.  Without trying to sound to braggy (but how could I not be at least a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/01/23/medals-gained-and-friendships-lost/</link>
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		<title>Yes, more ice skating posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure some people will be getting sick of these posts, but I still get quite excited when LatteGirl has these ice skating events.  Every event (so far) is bigger and more special than the last.  I guess I will stick on this course for about a year (so let me apologize in advance), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/01/16/yes-more-ice-skating-posts/</link>
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		<title>Get my nursing home reservations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am nothing but predictable&#8230; some call it lame, but I will stick with &#8220;predictable.&#8221;
For some time now (I guess far too long a time now), I have used the same response when told about a plan that is too good to be true, or just sounds completely unbelieveable.  That is to say something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/01/14/get-my-nursing-home-reservations/</link>
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		<title>Review: Asus EeePC 904HA Netbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Really this should have been a TechParent Tuesday post, but&#8230; well&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t wait for next week, and I had already done my prognostications, so here we are.
When I first started reading about the Netbook &#8220;craze&#8221; I was quite skeptical.  At first there was the little machines with a 7 in screen and 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/01/07/review-asus-eeepc-904ha-netbook/</link>
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		<title>Prognostications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been battling writer&#8217;s block for some time now.  So, I though perhaps a brain dump would get things going again.  But rather than the typical randomness, I thought I would try something a little different, and focus my randomness into the future, or to be precise, some things I think we will see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2009/01/06/prognostications/</link>
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		<title>Make Stop &amp; Shop Pay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, gratuitous inflamatory headline now out of the way, a little bit of reality.  I am venturing to guess that anybody that reads this blog also already reads This Full House, but just in case there is one that doesn&#8217;t&#8230;
You know that little Campaign to Blog Out Hunger that 100+ New Jersey Bloggers participated in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/23/make-stop-shop-pay/</link>
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		<title>Oh, it is just what I wanted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My guess is everybody else in the world was already aware of this, but I just found out that I finally got something I wanted this year for Xmas.  And not a moment too soon as far as I am concerned, Bratz dolls are no more.  
Now I have to admit, this has been a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/16/oh-it-is-just-what-i-wanted/</link>
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		<title>We can&#8217;t let this bank fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be sure these are trying times for all but the most affluent of people, as concerns about the economy, about jobs, about paying our bills, and other such concerns fill our minds.  It is natural if not instinctive that we go into a sort of preservation mode.  We cut out unnecessary expenses, we buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/15/we-cant-let-this-bank-fail/</link>
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		<title>Why is wishing someone well offensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is that time of year.  That post where I get berated for being inclusive instead of exclusive.  I hear how offensive it is to wish someone to be well, and to have a Happy Holiday.  Yes, once again, more people are joining in on the faux War on Christmas.  This game, started (as far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/09/why-is-wishing-someone-well-offensive/</link>
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		<title>Expectations and Perceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a topic I had been pondering recently, but I have to credit Ivy for really pushing me into writing it now, with her post at Home Ec-101 about &#8220;Do Not Let Your Sons Be Victims of Learned Incompetence.&#8221;  It was a comment that I find quite funny.  Why?  Well, I guess it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/05/expectations-and-perceptions/</link>
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		<title>Balancing Santa and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some ways I consider myself lucky that at 8 years old, LatteGirl still believes in Santa Claus.  At least for one more year we can keep this charade alive.  Reality and real life will seep in soon enough and take away some of her childhood innocense, and anything that can beat that back for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/12/02/balancing-santa-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>Review: Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally I wouldn&#8217;t bother with a movie a month old since most will have already seen it that are considering it.  But looking over the reviews for this movie, I felt I was a bit misled, so I figured it would be worth adding a review, so I could warn parents like myself that normally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/30/review-madagascar-2-escape-2-africa/</link>
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		<title>Just can&#8217;t let it go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that anybody reading this has already heard or read about the employee killed by a stampede at Wal-Mart on Black Friday, but I just couldn&#8217;t let it go.  It is the one time where I wish life was like CSI, and they could put somebody behind bars for this.  But this is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/29/just-cant-let-it-go/</link>
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		<title>Please fix the FDA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not intended to be in any way partisan or political (otherwise I would throw it over on The Daft Democrat), but since it affects our children, it is worth noting here.  The FDA has shown all to much a willingness to throw the health and safety of our food supply under the proverbial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/26/please-fix-the-fda/</link>
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		<title>Troubled assets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Citigroup is bailed out with protection of up to $308 billion dollars in troubled assets, I can&#8217;t help but wonder, am I the only freakin&#8217; loan that Citigroup has that is paying his mortgage on time?  I mean if you figure the average mortgage is $184,282 that means Citigroup alone has more than 1.6 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/24/troubled-assets/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t blame the moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often when weird things happen, the immediate (and folklore-ish) way to explain it is to fall back on blaming a full moon.  Well, the full moon is certainly not ocurring now, and yet this weekend seemed to be filled with the weird and bizarre. 
The weekend started out, with the news of a college student that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/24/cant-blame-the-moon/</link>
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		<title>Cannot end well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I certainly hope my cynical side is just coming through, and part of me is sympathic for her reasons, but the fact that a a Roseville woman has resorted to a pellet gun to solve her rat problem makes me&#8230; well&#8230; nervous.
Like I said I can sympathize, or at least empathize.  I know the sight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/24/cannot-end-well/</link>
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		<title>Short tempers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it that is going on in the social media world these days that is making for all the short tempers?
It just seems lately that everybody is ready to fight and/or to be mad at somebody.  Whether it is people getting pissy (on both sides of the equation) about Magpie ads on Twitter, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/21/short-tempers/</link>
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		<title>Blu-Ray PSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like only yesterday that I was saying it wasn&#8217;t time to buy Blu-Ray yet (it was actually March).  And to be honest, for me, nothing has changed yet.  Yes, they are starting to put more of a push on the Blu-Ray market, and prices on some players are finally coming down.
But&#8230; this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/18/blu-ray-psa/</link>
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		<title>Blues go bye-bye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cathy McCaughan of Domestic Psychology showed that she wasn&#8217;t afraid to be seen palling around with a Socialist like me that wants to spread the wealth and pass on the copy of Baby Blues I won from the unflappable Liz over at This Full House.  So she threw her comment into the ring for this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/18/blues-go-bye-bye/</link>
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		<title>Gold Medal Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a gold medal weekend around here, all around, though some may not exactly see it that way. For the most part, plans for my birthday on Saturday were altered and adjusted to fit in with skating rehearsals and an early bed time to ensure everybody was well rested and ready to head out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/17/gold-medal-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Baby Blues Cured My Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was lucky enough to win a contest over at This Full House (thanks Liz), and I scored a copy of the X-treme Parenting edition of Baby Blues.  Being the bleeding heart liberal that I am, rather than put in on my bookshelf (yes, I already read it, thus the Title), I want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/13/baby-blues-cured-my-blues/</link>
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		<title>Destined to return to Disney?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made much to do and asked a lot of questions recently on Twitter trying to decide where to stay on our planned trip to Walt Disney World next year.  But then things started to mount against us.  LatteGirl&#8217;s skating expenses are mounting, and business for me has been hurt drastically by the banking downturn. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/11/destined-to-return-to-disney/</link>
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		<title>The coolest waste of time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Granted, there are plenty of things to waste you time on, no matter where in &#8220;the tubes&#8221; you are, but I just ran across a new one that, while yes it is probabaly inefficient, and a waste of time, is still quite cool.  It is the new (to me) Amazon Windowshop.
Probabaly the best way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/11/the-coolest-waste-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s nervous?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nervous?  Who me?  Damn right I am.  A week away from her first competition, she is excited&#8230; but me, I am a total bundle of nerves.  But I can&#8217;t tell her.  Not so much about the competition itself.  There will be plenty of those in the future (I think), but still&#8230; this has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/09/whos-nervous/</link>
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		<title>Thank You Starbucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am seriously having trouble with the conversion back to Standard Time this year.  It has nothing to do with the clocks, I am not one that stresses over the moving clocks back (or forward).  But the getting out of work (and arriving to work) in the dark is bugging me far more than usual.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/07/thank-you-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>Joe v Joe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a race to see who falls out of the spotlight faster now that their &#8220;15 minutes&#8221; is up.
So who will disappear quicker?  Joe Wurzelbacher or Joe Lieberman
Honestly I don&#8217;t care as long as they both go away.
This will mark the end of politics on this blog (your welcome).
Those that may from time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/06/joe-v-joe/</link>
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		<title>A New Beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I held off posting, fully confident that I would be able to write this post before Midnight (Eastern).  Though I have to admit I was a actually a bit disappointed that it was not quite as easy as I had originally expected.  At this point I am also a bit sad that the Democrats did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/05/a-new-beginning/</link>
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		<title>Not for the wrong reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, there is virtually nobody I can sway at this point.  If you are of the mind to vote for John McCain at this point, what can I possibly say?  You are either party loyal to a fault, are a lemming, or have latched onto a lie.  There is nothing I can do about it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/03/not-for-the-wrong-reasons/</link>
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		<title>Proposing Discrimination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get started&#8230; if you want to read a well thought out and eloquent piece on the subject of Proposition 8 (California, and really by extention also Proposition 2 in Florida), then by all means, go here and read Backpacking Dad&#8217;s take.  I most unfortunately find that I am often (and now is probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/02/proposing-discrimination/</link>
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		<title>Happy 80th</title>
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In 1994, several month before TheWife and I are to be married, we got a frightening call.  My mother was rushed to the hospital, she was completely incoherent.
The initial situation turned out to be that she had gone into insulin shock.  Diabetic?  Test results said no.  As it turned out she was diagnosed with  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/11/01/happy-80th/</link>
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		<title>Ghosted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite it being Halloween and all, I thought it would be a good time to get the cobwebs off of this blog and get at it again.  I am using NaBloPoMo to hopefully assist in kicking my rear into gear.  
Yes, I realize that it doesn&#8217;t start until tomorrow, but nothing wrong with getting a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/10/31/ghosted/</link>
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		<title>Pumpkin Pancakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since somebody chastised me on Twitter (Hi Sara) for mentioning these without giving the recipe, and I been stalling on posting because I really wanted to move away from political posting, I figured I would share what is our typical Sunday Morning breakfast in the Autumn, Pumpkin Pancakes.  
Ingredients.

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup packed brown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/10/13/pumpkin-pancakes/</link>
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		<title>The good (and important) parts of the bailout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, I am not any big fan of bailing out a bunch of Investment Bankers and banks.  Fine, I am not a fan of the idea at all.  And I am not going to spend too much time on the negatives, the golden parachutes, idiotic CEO pay scales, and the like.  These have all been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/10/06/the-good-and-important-parts-of-the-bailout/</link>
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		<title>Now this is corporate welfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said about the $700 billion dollar bailout package (I don&#8217;t need to link to that right? I mean everybody knows about it who is paying attention), but in the midst of this, a little backstory is developing over Wachovia.  It is said that Wachovia faced a &#8220;silent run&#8221; on the bank, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/10/05/now-this-is-corporate-welfare/</link>
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		<title>PinkSploitation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday began National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Certainly a worthwhile endevour, make no mistake about it.  But I have a question.  Where is the line between &#8220;raising awareness&#8221; and &#8220;exploiting for corporate gain&#8221;?
Go, to any supermarket, clothing store, just about anywhere now and you see things draped out in pink.  Canon is offering a special [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/10/02/pinksploitation/</link>
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		<title>Deadly Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know &#8220;socialized&#8221; medicine is a taboo subject, especially at election time. but if that is what it is going to take in order to fix the healthcare problems in this country then so be it.  It seems that the capitalist approach does not work when it comes to medicine, and something needs to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/09/26/deadly-games/</link>
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		<title>Drop it, that&#8217;s not chocolate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is probably enough to have Milton Hershey rolling over in his grave.  Last year a number of chocolate manufacturer&#8217;s lobbied to attempt to get the definition of chocolate changed so that they could substitute cheap fats in place of cocoa butter when making chocolate.  This would have allowed them make the product cheaper, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/09/19/drop-it-thats-not-chocolate/</link>
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		<title>The Palin Doctrine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many, when Sarah Palin was picked for a running partner, I said, &#8220;Sarah Who?&#8221;  At first blush, I thought this was just an ill conceived move in desperation to try and grab, &#8220;disgruntled Hillary Voters&#8221; and women in general. (As I suspect many others have done as well).I held off commenting on this situation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/09/18/the-palin-doctrine/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a parent too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trade shows for the year are done, as are (hopefully) business trips.  So other than a new podcast we (&#8220;we&#8221; being myself along with the unflappable BusyMom) are trying to launch (but more on that soon), life should allow me to get back to blogging on a regular basis again.  I hope.   I don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/09/15/im-a-parent-too/</link>
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		<title>But I played one on vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a professional photographer.  Not by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a hobby that has seemingly taken on a life of its own.  Taking me (hopefully) somewhere, someday in the future.  Perhaps the next mountain I climb when I tire of being a programmer.
I still learning, but right now it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/09/02/but-i-played-one-on-vacation/</link>
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		<title>So needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t express how much I needed this years vacation.  Plus, unlike last year, it didn&#8217;t rain, I didn&#8217;t wind up with a concussion, and I didn&#8217;t get sick. It has been a really stressful year, and it is amazing just how much of that tension can be melted away in a week.
For me, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/08/25/so-needed/</link>
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		<title>The best compliment ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend marked four years since my father passed away.  As is typical (since we are closer) after visiting the masaoleum, my mother and aunt came back to the house for dinner.
LatteGirl was not much in the mood for eating and after querying her to what was wrong, she bemoaned the fact of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/08/14/the-best-compliment-ever/</link>
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		<title>The small details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not good at the small details.  This is a known flaw.  It is also a big part of my ADHD.  It is also, apparently the one thing that can take a great weekend and (apparently) make it all &#8220;not count.&#8221;
With our Anniversary falling on a Tuesday this year we decided to celebrate over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/08/07/the-small-details/</link>
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		<title>14 years ago today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[






		
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		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/08/05/14-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<title>Are you using Flickr differently now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can tell I was really wrapped up lately in prepping for my trade show, since I somehow missed this earlier on.   I mean how I missed the fact that every picture on Flickr was offered up for sale from July 3rd &#8211; 5th is simply amazing to me.  It wasn&#8217;t until I spotted it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/31/are-you-using-flickr-differently-now/</link>
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		<title>iTunes should just be considered malware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that Apple decided to try and sneak Safari on to Windows users computers through an iTunes update.  But apparently they didn&#8217;t learn their lesson last time, because they are at it again.
For those of you running Windows, if you have updated your iTunes virus to version 7.7 then go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/31/itunes-should-just-be-considered-malware/</link>
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		<title>Call for Bloggers in Baltimore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, just as life is starting to get back to normal around here, I am being shipped off to a trade-show down in Baltimore for the weekend. (Yeah, I know&#8230;. poor me).  But seriously, trade shows leave me busy during the day, and bored (other than finally getting back to blogging) at night.
I depart early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/23/call-for-bloggers-in-baltimore/</link>
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		<title>At this rate &#8211; my Xmas card list will be small</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been a bit slow around here as you may have noticed.  It has been a bit tough as I said good-bye to a second uncle in just over 2 weeks.  It also gave me a lesson in introspection as well as contrast.
When uncle #1 (mom&#8217;s brother-in law for those keeping score) passed away, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/16/at-this-rate-my-xmas-card-list-will-be-small/</link>
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		<title>And this is (supposedly) a Blue State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, falling only perhaps to Liz, I am as pro-New Jersey person as you will find.  Despite what a lot of people and comedians may lead you to believe there is a lot to like.  I am not going to go into a long list here (your welcome).  But one of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/10/and-this-is-supposedly-a-blue-state/</link>
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		<title>Perhaps I cause cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had it.  People just stay away, because the only conclusion left is that I cause cancer.   How else do I look at it.  It is not region, the only common factor in this &#8220;cluster&#8221; of cases is&#8230; me.
I honestly didn&#8217;t think about it a couple of years ago, when my father passed away.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/07/01/perhaps-i-cause-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Review: Wall-E</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Well, I can not hide the fact (especially since I mentioned it last week) that I was really looking forward to seeing the latest Pixar Studio creation, Wall-E. This is of course, a double edge sword.  On the one hand (and I have no problem admitting it), I am a Pixar fan.  They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/29/review-wall-e/</link>
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		<title>Not probably the reputation they want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was trying to get caught up on some blog reading that I am so terribly behind on that Google Reader is starting to mock me, I stopped by This Full House.  As Liz went on about how she was warning others about bringing her &#8220;skanky-ass toes&#8221; to BlogHer, I started to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/26/not-probably-the-reputation-they-want/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: Evernote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am late with my TechParent piece for one reason, I am in love (so far) with Evernote.  It is rare that I will start with such an exclamatory, but Evernote finally managed to do something that I have been complaining about in many areas.  Take several ideas that are good on their own merits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/25/techparent-evernote/</link>
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		<title>George Carlin 1937 &#8211; 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Atheism is a non-prophet organization. &#8221;
&#8220;Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.&#8221;
&#8220;I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don&#8217;t have as many people who believe it.&#8221;
&#8220;A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it&#8221;
&#8220;I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/23/george-carlin-1937-2008/</link>
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		<title>According to the AP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That could be a phrase you see less often around the blogosphere.  In a truely bone headed move, the Associated Press has shown that they are not much different than the MPAA and RIAA, where they try to hold old media standards to the web, because they don&#8217;t think they are getting paid enough by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/18/according-to-the-ap/</link>
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		<title>Friday Focaccia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall*E &#8211; Despite him looking an awful lot like he was inspired by Johnny Five, I am really looking forward to Wall*E, the latest installment from Disney/Pixar.  I don&#8217;t know why, but I feel like I am the only one.  How come Wall*E isn&#8217;t feeling the love?
Presto Change-Oh No &#8211; LatteGirl pointed out to me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/13/friday-focaccia-31/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: VLC Media Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tired of the slow load times of Media Player, QuickTime, and other &#8220;standard solutions&#8221; where you seem to have to spend more time waiting for the utility to load than (at least it seems) actually watching the video?  Tired of needing multiple players for different video codecs?  Wish you had one player that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/11/techparent-vlc-media-player/</link>
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		<title>This is why the rich don&#8217;t see a recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been &#8220;chatter&#8221; particularly from those trying to find some way to salvage anything that might look like a legacy for President Bush that are desperately trying to cling to the notion that they U.S. economy is in or headed towards a recession.
They point to things like the old outdated definition that a &#8220;recession&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/09/this-is-why-the-rich-dont-see-a-recession/</link>
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		<title>They pay these people, huh?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In talking about Amazon.com earlier, I mentioned how Twitter has not exactly had the best record of being up and running lately.  Of course, most people know by now that predominatly the cause is that the site is simply &#8220;too popular&#8221; and the site was simply not built to scale to the size needed for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/06/they-pay-these-people-huh/</link>
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		<title>Somebody&#8217;s getting fired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I had several hours that my blog was down&#8230; and I was rather annoyed.  Countless number of people have been annoyed by the fact that Twitter can&#8217;t seem to keep itself up and running&#8230; and several people have &#8220;left the company.&#8221;  Neither my blog nor Twitter garners much in the way of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/06/somebodys-getting-fired/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: Free Caffeinated Wi-Fi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how I missed this one coming down the road (I guess because I don&#8217;t actually have AT&#38;T Wireless).  Starbucks and AT&#38;T are now rolling out a new program for the highly caffeinated set that like to use Wi-Fi.
If you buy (or recharge) a Starbuckscard for your coffee purchases you get up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/03/techparent-free-caffeinated-wi-fi/</link>
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		<title>Not quite yesterday any more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1983, we saw the Return of the Jedi, Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd were Trading Places, Matthew Brodderick was playing War Games, while Tom Cruise was busy with some Risky Business.  Everybody was watching J.R. down in Dallas, Hawkeye Pierece and BJ Honeycut were finally free of their M*A*S*H* unit, people were still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/06/01/not-quite-yesterday-any-more/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Princess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





These first 8 years have gone entirely too fast, but I can&#8217;t help but be thrilled with what a wonderful young lady you have become.  Happy Birthday Sweetheart!




		
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		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/30/happy-birthday-princess-2/</link>
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		<title>Sending out some birthday wishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it seems that Liz over at This Full House has left her blog unattended as she celebrates yet another birthday.  You do read her blog don&#8217;t you?  Well, anyway&#8230; since she left the door open, I thought it would be kind of cool if she came back and found 44 Birthday wishes.   So please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/28/sending-out-some-birthday-wishes/</link>
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		<title>Puzzled&#8230; the perfect description.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN is reporting, White House &#8216;puzzled&#8217; by ex-spokesman&#8217;s book bashing Bush.  I found this hysterical.  Why?  Because, anything that resembles the truth always seems to puzzle Bush.
According to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino:
&#8220;Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,&#8221; Perino said. &#8220;For those of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/28/puzzled-the-perfect-description/</link>
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		<title>Getting some perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a day to day basis, people fret over small details.  As highlighted by the show Bridezillas, in many cases this gets highlighted (and quite intense) during particularly stressful times (like getting married). We worry about the wrong flowers, or somebody is 5 minutes late.
How would you have liked to have had THIS to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/27/getting-some-perspective/</link>
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		<title>That time of year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just need to survive.  That is my mantra for the next couple of weeks.
Wenesday, LatteGirl had her first Piano Recital (which went off very well thank you very much).
Tonight, she is &#8220;testing&#8221; to try and move up to a yellow belt in Karate.
As part of her birthday present LatteGirl wanted her room done over, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/23/that-time-of-year/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: Glubble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in Friday&#8217;s report, even those that think they are protecting their kids sometimes need to take another look.  Well, I was doing just that when I found Glubble.  Glubble is a sort of hybrid social network like front end tied in with a Parental Control product like NetNanny. It seems to run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/20/techparent-glubble/</link>
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		<title>Friday Foccacia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new reason to hate Comcast &#8211; Yes, I know there are some people that think they are Comcastic, but I have aboslutely no regrets leaving Comcast in the past.  First, I am happy about saving money, as I have since switching from Cable to DirecTV.  Second, I am thrilled that with Verizon Fios, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/16/friday-foccacia-7/</link>
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		<title>Exploding Patio Sets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, not really&#8230; but now that I have your attention, let me tell you what happened this past weekend.  It was Saturday, a relatively warm, cloudy day here in New Jersey.  Like every Saturday for the past few months, my routine was the same, I would go out on my back deck, enjoy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/15/exploding-patio-sets/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: mytvrss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I am not a big television viewer myself.  If not for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I don&#8217;t know that I would be watching anything (other than Disney Channel with LatteGirl).  But between blogs and Twitter, I know many of you do, and seemingly live and die by the schedules.  Well, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/13/techparent-mytvrss/</link>
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		<title>Fat Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like many people have battled weight issues a good part of my life.  Despite what many &#8220;skinny&#8221; people will claim, it is not a &#8220;choice.&#8221;  Is it something I can do something about?  In my case, yes.  At least I have managed to do it before, and with weight loss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/12/fat-fight/</link>
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		<title>Teaching her too well?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could have sworn, I had talked about this before, but for the life of me, cannot find it in my archives.  Oh, well&#8230; to summarize quickly&#8230; One thing we did very early with LatteGirl is start her on an allowance.
Now, to cover a couple of issues, I always see when the issue of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/07/teaching-her-too-well/</link>
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		<title>TechParent: LocalCooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
LocalCooling is a free Windows utility that can help you configure power saving settings on Windows (Vista and XP anyway).  Now granted, there is nothing in local cooling application that you can&#8217;t do yourself through various parts of Control Panel in Windows, but it puts them all in a single easy to use interface.
Through, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/05/06/techparent-localcooling/</link>
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		<title>Tech Parent: Remember the Milk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that despite solid offering for e-mail, and Calendar kept me locked into Microsoft Outlook was Tasks (or To-dos).  Yes there are a few different offerings out there of a Web 2.0 nature, but nothing that integrated with other offerings very well.  That was until I discovered RememberTheMilk.com.  Remember the Milk is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/04/29/tech-parent-remember-the-milk/</link>
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		<title>A Diet guarenteed to work&#8230; if you dare.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, if you are like me you have gone on plenty of diets, tried &#8220;everything&#8221; but &#8220;nothing worked.&#8221;  Most of the times, if we are honest, we probably do something to sabotage it without even realizing we are doing it.   But I believe I may have found a cure.  The only question becomes, if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/04/28/a-diet-guarenteed-to-work-if-you-dare/</link>
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		<title>Friday Foccacia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Help Wanted &#8211; This one isn&#8217;t a link.  I have been a bit lagging on my posting lately because I am working on a new endevour that I have been wanting to work on for quite some time.  A new Podcast.  Any tips or tricks on setting everything up would be greatly appreciated.  I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/04/25/friday-foccacia-6/</link>
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		<title>TechParent Editorial: Alltop?  Make it Stop already!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel very lonely, no I am not completely alone, there are others (well at least two here and here).  But it was this glowing over the top &#8220;review&#8221;  that was the straw the broke the camel&#8217;s back.  I&#8217;ve had a lot of thoughts about Alltop, and none of them are positive.
I have seen nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/04/22/techparent-editorial-alltop-make-it-stop-already/</link>
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		<title>Just Because&#8230; OK?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been stewing on this one a while, and while I have made mention of it before, it was always just more of an afterthought; but after encountering it yet again this past weekend, I think I have finally had enough.  By now I am sure most of you (well all three of you), are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tripleventi.com/2008/04/21/just-because-ok/</link>
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