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		<title>Deliberate steps or just plain stallin&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Maybe I&#8217;m too close to it. Perhaps it&#8217;s a fear of failure. I&#8217;ve spent the last year working on this new gig, fairly preoccupied with learning more about instructional design, learning styles, neuro- and behavioral economics, and by no small stretch, bootstrapping and building a business. It&#8217;s intense, invigorating, and sometimes in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=148&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Line Horizon&#8230;no thanks.</title>
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I&#8217;ve been streaming the new album, No Line Horizon, from the U2 MySpace page in advance of the release tomorrow. I&#8217;ve been listening for a bit more than a week. It&#8217;s been heartbreaking.
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		<title>Evernote killer app idea</title>
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This past week I spent working with all my new Evernote notes. It occurred to me that Evernote would be exponentionally more useful for me if it had a mind-mapping plugin that allowed me to create visual relationships/correlations between separate tag groups and individual notes.
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		<title>I&#8217;m in the money &#8211; unclaimed funds!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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While tying up loose ends regarding my grandparents&#8217; estate, my uncle ran an unclaimed funds search and my name showed up. I got a call Saturday afternoon while walking to the library with my son. I hopped on line when we got home. Turns out Washington State has a web site that makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=129&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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If you&#8217;re like me, you appreciate an independent third-party review of a product or service before making a purchase. And if you&#8217;re like me, migrating from Google Notebook, rest easy knowing that once you&#8217;ve deciphered the Google Notebook Atom import process &#8211; even available with the free version &#8211; you&#8217;re going to be pretty stinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=111&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inevitable Detours: Life and the Pursuit of Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Hi. Welcome back.
Hopefully, the past year has been good to you and yours. In light of the recent emotional-political-economic roller coaster, I offer a toast: May there be more good days than bad days ahead, and may we learn at least a little something from both.
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		<title>Thirty-nine years and counting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Is something wrong?&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Well, of course there is.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re still alive,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Oh? And do I deserve to be-
&#8220;Is that the question?
&#8220;And if so
&#8220;If so,
&#8220;Who answers?
&#8220;Who answers?&#8221;
&#8216;Alive&#8217; Ten
Pearl Jam
Once an intimate personal anthem, the song is now a point of reference, a dogeared page in a chapter full of wild times, raving idiocy, and occasionally, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=69&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hip, hip, Mr. Favre.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations on your retirement.
We&#8217;re the same age.
I&#8217;m at the pre-beginning of my career. You&#8217;re at the tired-of-300-lbs.-men-want-to-hurt-you point in yours.
Might I recommend a book for you to read in the very near future (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)? I hear there is a jolly good post-pandemic thriller on the horizon. Just keep it in mind. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=66&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cringe Video: A personal history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please pardon the interruption to this regularly writing-centric blog.
My daughter and I were watching Martin Luther King Jr. speeches on YouTube. One of the other videos on the front page featured an old Smiths video. Wow. Education time was over (sorry, sweetie) and daddy&#8217;s trip to Video Nostalgia was full steam ahead.
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		<title>A poem to define the writer&#8217;s life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is futile,&#8221; I said,
&#8220;You can never -&#8221;
&#8220;You lie,&#8221; he cried,
And ran on.

I first read Stephen Crane&#8217;s I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon in 6th grade. Eight lines of verse that &#8211; for me &#8211; encapsulates the life of a writer.  For all the poetry I&#8217;ve read in the 27 years since, it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thickidea.wordpress.com&blog=1152378&post=52&subd=thickidea&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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