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		<title>Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about writing some philosophical treatise and/or diatribe here on the nature of our lives and transition, but it turns out I don&#8217;t know what to say just yet. The short &#8212; or &#8220;TL;DR&#8221;, if you will &#8212; version is that a life without transition is a stagnant existence. One that we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/08/05/transition/</link>
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		<title>Twitter roll!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve adopted the @twitter as a method of communication, but since this blog is my main communication center, I want to make sure all streams come through here. To that end, I used a nice little WordPress plugin called Xhanch to do it. If you&#8217;re using WordPress, I would definitely encourage you to check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/08/04/twitter-roll/</link>
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		<title>Occupado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to split the topics of the post into two groups. The latter is the most important and is regarding whether the events in our lives happen for a reason or if they&#8217;re just random occurrences. Unfortunately, the first topic of this post is one I&#8217;ve written on before: my own lack of consistency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/06/25/occupado/</link>
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		<title>Racism runs rampant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I abhor racism. The idea that any one person is better or worse than another simply because of skin color or cultural differences is and always has been absurd. Just as absurd is the idea that culture can&#8217;t or shouldn&#8217;t be shared amongst disparate groups of people. I have no patience for any propaganda that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/05/12/racism-runs-rampant/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a good day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not so often lately that I can say I&#8217;ve had or am having a good day. Today is fortunately one of those times. Not even the random and close-minded religious ramblings from facebook-game friends can dampen the spirits in the apartment. The rain clouds are starting to break up and the barest hints of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/04/18/its-a-good-day/</link>
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		<title>Rune Explorations: Fehu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FEHU (FAY-hoo) is the first rune of the three rows or Aetts of the Elder Futhark. The word FEHU comes from the Proto-Germanic and is the origin of our modern word &#8220;fee&#8221;. The literal and pictographic representation of FEHU is the domesticated cattle. Cattle were often used to pay debts, settle disputes, and establish other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/04/18/rune-explorations-fehu/</link>
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		<title>Elder Futhark and Runic thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been studying the runes for almost 20 years now. I was in my freshman year of high school when I first stumbled across these mysterious symbols as I was doing research for a chemistry paper: a picture of a Viking-era sword whose blade was etched with a combination of &#8220;Isa&#8221;, &#8220;Nauthiz&#8221;, and &#8220;Tiwaz&#8221;. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/03/31/elder-futhark-and-runic-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Vote your Voice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve come by these pages a lot, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve spent a good deal of time discussing various points on the state of our republic here in the U.S. Throughout, I have always maintained that a stronger voter turnout could go a long way towards correcting some of the trends we&#8217;ve been seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/02/02/vote-your-voice/</link>
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		<title>Voting accomplished, conscience muddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I voted. I braved the rain, the cold slush, and all of everything else today to cast my vote for the person who I feel is less likely to destroy our country in the future. Neither Martha Coakley nor Scott Brown appealed to me as an ideal candidate for a state senator. Joe Kennedy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/01/19/voting-accomplished-conscience-muddy/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s election not just about health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So on Tuesday, we&#8217;ve got a special election here in Massachusetts to fill the senate seat left by the late Ted Kennedy. Naturally, the primary candidates for the seat are a Republican &#8212; Scott Brown &#8212; and a Democrat &#8212; Martha Coakley. I&#8217;m very torn as to how I&#8217;m going to vote. Without revealing too much, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/01/17/torn-on-tuesdays-electiont/</link>
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		<title>Infinite stars?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard this morning that there&#8217;s a theory out in the world that since there is not more light than black in the universe, there can not be an infinite number of stars. In fact, there could be an infinite number of stars and space would look just as it does now. If there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2010/01/15/infinite-stars/</link>
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		<title>My Workspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My post-xmas desktop. Busy, yeah?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/12/27/my-workspace/</link>
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		<title>A babbling tower &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a post of interest. I like to look at this drawing to see how closely related all of us in the Northern Hemisphere really are. The development of languages, of course, happens right alongside the development of culture which lead to prejudices and all of that other wonderful stuff. When looking at all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/12/17/261/</link>
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		<title>Factionalization is killing our country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States Congress has betrayed its purpose: the representation of the ideals of its constituents is no longer a primary motive. Rather, the concerns of corporate entities, personal gain, and political favor have corrupted the work our government does and the general population is left to ponder the outcome and live in the aftermath. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/12/15/254/</link>
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		<title>Education: Entry One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The system by which we &#8220;educate&#8221; our citizenry in this country must be eradicated. I say this not because the system is a failure. On the contrary, our public education system does exactly what it was meant to do: prepare people for an automaton-like life in a world of capitalistic industry. Current cycle of education: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/12/14/education-entry-one/</link>
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		<title>Life of late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having a new baby has certainly changed the pattern of life. Change for the positive, but things are really different. Not that I didn&#8217;t expect that difference, of course, but until it&#8217;s experienced it really can&#8217;t be understood. With our first child, I lived much closer to where I worked. I could go home for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/12/07/life-of-late/</link>
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		<title>Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduces extension of Patriot Act sunset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GovTrack: S. 1692: Text of Legislation, Introduced in Senate. With the bill linked above, Patrick Leahy is attempting to move the end date of the USA Patriot Act from December 31st 2009 to December 31 2013. On October 8th the bill was read twice and submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Leahy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/10/10/patrick-leahy-d-vt-introduces-extension-of-patriot-act-sunset/</link>
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		<title>Mass. House approves &#8220;Pandemic&#8221; bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mass. House approves bill allowing quarantines &#8211; Boston.com. The article written by an AP journalist and published by the Boston Globe doesn&#8217;t mention when the vote took place on this bill or what the bill is. That lack of information is unacceptable since this bill has been around some time. Below is a brief history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/10/08/mass-house-approves-pandemic-bill/</link>
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		<title>Respiratory infection &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it turns out being dizzy is an interesting side-effect of having an upper respiratory infection. I&#8217;ve never had one of these, so that&#8217;s new to me! Here&#8217;s a picture of where I&#8217;m sick. Doctor&#8217;s orders? Stay home, get rest, drink fluids (I imagine that coffee and/or mead don&#8217;t count), and otherwise live a boring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/10/08/respiratory-infection/</link>
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		<title>FreeBSD up and running</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FreeBSD is now installed into VMWare on my Windows Vista Install. It&#8217;s not a big deal, nor was it terribly complicated, but it makes me happy. The question some might ask, of course, is why I would want to have FreeBSD on my PC machine. I don&#8217;t really know. All I know is that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/10/06/freebsd-up-and-running/</link>
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		<title>Feeling kind of oogy &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught some kind of awfully disgusting thing or something. Light-headed and woozy, I&#8217;m sitting here trying to get myself to make supper. While that&#8217;s bubbling, I figured I&#8217;d geek out a bit and try to get FreeBSD installed under VMWare on my Vista machine. I&#8217;ll post how that goes at some point. It turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/10/06/feeling-kind-of-oogy/</link>
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		<title>One week plus with my tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My tattoo has been healing nicely. The initial layer of inked skin has peeled off leaving the impression that I&#8217;ve had these symbols etched into my skin with a long piece of burning charcoal. I&#8217;m actually really digging it, and am glad I&#8217;ve had it done. Some of you may know that I&#8217;ve been wanting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/07/07/one-week-plus-with-my-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>My new Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my first professional tattoo this weekend. I&#8217;ve been thinking about a tattoo since high school, but there was never anything that struck me as a permanent idea. Something that I wouldn&#8217;t mind embedded in my skin for the decades of my life I&#8217;ve yet to live. As I&#8217;ve grown older, though, some very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/06/29/my-new-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day 2009: That&#8217;s all I Need to Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a picture of my son at the Revolution vs. Santos Laguna game at Gillette Stadium. Yep. That&#8217;s my son. On father&#8217;s day. I couldn&#8217;t be more proud.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/06/24/fathers-day-2009-thats-all-i-need-to-say/</link>
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		<title>The Revolution of Humanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost 300 years ago now the original founders of the United States chose to rebel against an oppressive regime in order to secure the right of self-rule. No matter the men&#8217;s motivation &#8212; liberty, lower taxes, business, etc. &#8212; the goal is still a valid one: self-rule. When we talk about the right to vote, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/06/23/the-revolution-of-humanity/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Tucker, our new cat. We just picked him up tonight. He&#8217;s about ten weeks old and just about as playful as he is cute. I don&#8217;t really have anything else to say about him, other than the announcement that he&#8217;s here. Oh. And that he&#8217;s god-awfully cute. Danielle will get a chance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/05/15/151/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year we&#8217;ve decided to replant the family garden. The plot my mother, father, and I used to use is about 3,000 square feet and should be plenty for my father, sister, and the three of us here in MA. There&#8217;s something phenomenally exciting to me about this plan. Not only does it involve more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/05/07/142/</link>
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		<title>Cognito!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cognito is our 2005 Ford Escape. We call him that so that when we go somewhere, we can go there &#8220;In Cognito&#8221;. He&#8217;s an AWD V6 XLT with just over 75,000 miles on him. We got him a few weeks ago as a replacement for our 1994 Saab 900s named &#8220;Garrincha&#8221;: a great car, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/03/31/cognito/</link>
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		<title>I feel like I&#8217;m getting old &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See, a week ago I was out in the park with my son and his friends. They&#8217;re all 10 and all kinds of energetic and everything. The snow had just melted and I was playing Aerobie with the three of them. A particularly accurate and &#8212; if I may say so &#8212; brilliant throw from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/03/25/i-feel-like-im-getting-old/</link>
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		<title>The search for podcast software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your looking for a good solution for recording a podcast &#8212; mac or windows &#8212; don&#8217;t go any further than audacity, an open source tool for recording and editing audio. You can export into mp3 format using the lame encoder. I tried about a million tools over the weekend, and even ended up using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/03/08/the-search-for-podcast-software/</link>
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		<title>from &#8220;Progress Report for a Goodthinking UniSocAm&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this fragment buried in a government website a few weeks ago and wanted to share it. I&#8217;m pretty sure it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be public, as I haven&#8217;t seen it since. I don&#8217;t know the author or to whom it&#8217;s addressed, but it&#8217;s obviously fairly recent and seems to be part of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/02/28/from-progress-report-for-a-goodthinking-unisocam/</link>
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		<title>Alternatives to Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I do this little experiment, I&#8217;m making some finds and reconfirmations of things that are viable replacements for google-based technology. Here&#8217;s my list so far: Jabber is a great, free, open source IM protocol. Keep all of your contacts from GTalk, too. I&#8217;m using the chrome.pl server. Free office software such as openoffice.org, AbiWord, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/02/14/alternatives-to-google/</link>
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		<title>Mission (nearly) Complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah! Turns out WordPress has built-in import tools, so all I had to do was figure out how to get it to work with blogger.com (hint: the secret is to transform your blogger.com blog into one hosted at blogspot). Now, to explain a bit about what I&#8217;m doing. I&#8217;ve been watching Google for a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/02/12/74/</link>
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		<title>Switching to WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m back online. I&#8217;ll be reworking the site over the next few days as I figure out the format for WordPress. [edit] So far, I&#8217;ve gotten the shell back and most of the styles in place. Looking good so far. Hopefully I can get the old content back in, as well.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/02/12/3/</link>
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		<title>So much for overclocking &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week or so after my overclocking adventure below, my computer started showing signs of instability. The fan became noisy, it would freeze up little speckles of color on the screen, crash after sleeping, etc. I downclocked it bit by bit in the hopes that I could save any gains on speed but with no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2009/02/02/so-much-for-overclocking/</link>
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		<title>My life with hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching a test run on my computer as I type this. It&#8217;s one designed to max out and capture the capabilities of my graphics card, ram, processor, etc. called 3DMark06. I&#8217;ve been obsessed lately with the performance of mine and my wife&#8217;s computers. This happens every couple of months, it seems: I get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/12/13/my-life-with-hardware/</link>
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		<title>My Tattoo (Redux)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks as though I&#8217;ll have to go over my tattoo one more time once it heals. There are some parts of it &#8212; the intersecting lines, particularly &#8212; that didn&#8217;t take. Hopefully it will be healed enough to do this weekend. Since my tattoo is of a bind-rune, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/11/07/my-tattoo-redux/</link>
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		<title>My Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That little shape in amongst all of the kitchen scratch from my journal is the rune I etched into my left calf last night under a haze of wonderful home-brewed mead. The rune is one created from Nauthiz and Perthro. The meaning of it is fairly simple: the bearer is willing to accept that each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/11/01/my-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>Rune of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest Bind rune I crafted as a representation of Life&#8217;s journey. It contains the runes Isa, Perthro, and Raidho. Isa: For knowledge of the self, centering the carrier of the charm, calming force Perthro: The laws of nature as represented by the Norse concept Orlog. This is not fate, but the laws by which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/09/30/rune-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Rune of Calming Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing more and more runework over the last week or two, picking up from where I left off years ago. While the years have added a level of comprehension I certainly didn&#8217;t have before, my stamina for dealing with the after effects of forming, crafting, and carving a bind rune is not what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/09/29/rune-of-calming-power/</link>
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		<title>Rune of Inspiration</title>
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		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/09/29/rune-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>Rune of Self Control</title>
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		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/09/29/rune-of-self-control/</link>
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		<title>The Awe of Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While gathered around our dining table last night, Gabe, Danielle and I talked about the possibilities of the nature of the universe. We pulled out a pad of graph paper and sketched out the various theoretical shapes of the flow of time, the warp of the universe, and the theories that have been proposed because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/09/05/the-awe-of-nature/</link>
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		<title>Evening commute</title>
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		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/08/26/evening-commute/</link>
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		<title>Morning commute</title>
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		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/08/26/morning-commute/</link>
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		<title>Skewed priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poster at the top of this picture is for a lost cat. It&#8217;s in full color, and everything is spelled perfectly. The poster below that? For a missing person.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/07/27/skewed-priorities/</link>
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		<title>Flash deserved to live longer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a warm and slightly muggy evening here. I&#8217;m sipping slowly from a glass of grapefruit juice and rum and can still feel the grit beneath my fingernails from filling the dirt in around Flash&#8217;s corpse. He&#8217;s buried out beneath a sumac tree in our backyard just on the other side of the trunk from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/05/15/flash-deserved-to-live-longer/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that season again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s that season again here in the United States: Soccer time. Yes, I admit it. I&#8217;m hooked. I have been since 2002, and the performance of our favorite local footy team has secured it. Since it is that time of year, it&#8217;s also time to post the chart: After every game, I&#8217;ll update the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/04/09/its-that-season-again/</link>
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		<title>In Defense of the &quot;Oath of an American Citizen&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of people with whom I shared the Oath of an American Citizen balked a bit at me using the word &#8220;responsibility&#8221; in relation to when our government goes awry. Responsibility, their argument went, creates too much of a commitment and renders the pledge too harsh. A better word would be &#8220;right&#8221;, they said. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/23/in-defense-of-the-oath-of-an-american-citizen/</link>
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		<title>Pledge of the American Citizen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[podcast]http://www.onegecko.com/audio/podcasts/onegecko-radio-2008-02-21.mp3[/podcast] In today&#8217;s podcast, I take a look at the citizenship pledge that is given to immigrants who have passed the naturalization exam on their way to become citizens of the United States. In conjunction with that, though, I also present a pledge for people who are already citizens so that we can reaffirm our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/21/pledge-of-the-american-citizen/</link>
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		<title>Ron Paul Supporters to March on Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of Ron Paul are working together across the nation to plan a march on Washington, D.C. some time later this year. The date hasn&#8217;t been determined yet, but signs point to sometime this spring or summer, prior to the DNC and RNC conventions. I support the idea of this march whole-heartedly. The purpose of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/18/ron-paul-supporters-to-march-on-washington/</link>
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		<title>Important article from The Guardian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please read this article by Naomi Wolf. It&#8217;s a great breakdown of the steps to Fascism, and follows the events of the last seven years as moving through those steps. Is The United States of America becoming Fascist? Some signs point to yes. Please read the article. Please vote your conscience. Don&#8217;t let the system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/13/important-article-from-the-guardian/</link>
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		<title>How campaigns make us think voting doesn&#8217;t matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 6:30 in the morning here, I&#8217;m tired, and rushing to get ready for work. In spite of all of that, however, I need to share the book I&#8217;ve just finished reading:&#8221;How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative&#8221; The author, Allen Raymond, was a GOP campaign manager and operative between 1992 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/13/how-campaigns-make-us-think-voting-doesnt-matter/</link>
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		<title>Voting: why and why not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I continue my analysis of the U.S. Constitution, I want to explore the topic of voting for a post or two. I&#8217;m interested in finding out what voting means to people, why people choose to vote or not, and what the driving issues are behind those decisions. What I understand from my research so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/08/voting-why-and-why-not/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on last night&#8217;s post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I begin my exploration of the Constitution in more depth, I&#8217;m struck by the concept of &#8220;being a strict constitutionalist&#8221;. Two days ago, I would have said that means limited government, Libertarian ideals, and a move towards local control and self-sufficiency. The idea now comes into my head, however, that if the Constitution is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/05/thoughts-on-last-nights-post/</link>
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		<title>On the Preamble of the United States Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To encapsulate one&#8217;s political views by attachment to a single party or platform is &#8212; in essence &#8212; to also limit one&#8217;s ability to address issues as they truly are. This is a truth, and one that is difficult for some people to understand. The Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green, or any other party is unable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2008/02/04/on-the-preamble-of-the-united-states-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Solving democracy through complex systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America is a broken country. Our dreams have been bent, tarnished, and mis-handled so often and for so long that we &#8212; the 300 million people who call it our home &#8212; have nearly forgotten what it means to live here. The government has gotten us so used to expecting solutions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/27/solving-democracy-through-complex-systems/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The temperature this morning registered a nice and crisp 28&#176; Fahrenheit, which is officially our first frost of the year. Having grown up in Vermont, it&#8217;s very strange to be waiting until after Thanksgiving to mention frosts. Maybe, though, it has very little to do with latitude and more to do with climate shifts overall. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/25/48/</link>
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		<title>Ingressus brevis est</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hodie diarium meum Latine scripto. Ingresso brevo est. Donare me si sententiae meae incallidae et fatuae sunt. Hic non obvium est, et verbi incallidi solummodo sentio. Tolerentia tua interrogo. Cras, satius facebo. Vale.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/22/ingressus-brevis-est/</link>
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		<title>Jazz Playlist from You Tube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jazz is by far the music that has had the greatest impact on my life over the years, and thanks to the magic of some intrepid youtubers, I can now share my favorite tunes from my favorite artists. In this list are the likes of Dave brubeck, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/20/jazz-playlist-from-you-tube/</link>
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		<title>My new &#8220;song&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[podcast]http://www.onegecko.com/audio/podcasts/latinmonkeyguitarwhistle.mp3[/podcast] This song represents how I feel today: a little disjointed, but thinking of Latin and strange shapes. The technology is Audacity on OS X 10.3.9. The instruments are &#8220;C&#8221; tin whistle, an Oscar Schmidt guitar, Wheelock&#8217;s Latin, and me.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/18/my-new-song/</link>
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		<title>On Being a Soccer Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s for the kids. The cold rain is blowing at an angle across the open soccer field. On the sideline, my bedraggled team huddles reluctantly in this late October maelstrom of rain and fouls and goals. Tired from the weather more than from their running, water bottles lay neglected at their feet. As I watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/18/on-being-a-soccer-coach/</link>
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		<title>A (bad) Latin joke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two workmen are building a road on the outskirts of Ancient Rome. They can be seen working under the boiling afternoon sun, shovels and picks in hand, carving the earth while masons lay stone behind them. Their orders are to build to the edge of the Empire that has begun to collapse, and they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/13/a-bad-latin-joke/</link>
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		<title>All of that is behind me, and what&#8217;s left is forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I realized that I don&#8217;t really know where I&#8217;ve been the past few years. I feel as one who has been wallowing in the middle of truth and fiction; one who looks across a darkening ocean for a future, only to see the past. I feel as though all of that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/10/all-of-that-is-behind-me-and-whats-left-is-forward/</link>
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		<title>The last month &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last month has been downright hectic, to be honest. I&#8217;d devoted too much of myself to too many tasks, and it shows now that I&#8217;m through with them. Soccer coaching, ghost tour in Salem, promoting my Dad&#8217;s book, and following presidential politics. Through it all, though, I learned a number of things about myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/11/06/the-last-month/</link>
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		<title>Dad&#8217;s book now available!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad&#8217;s book &#8212; &#8220;Out of the Hermit&#8217;s Meadow and Wood&#8221; &#8212; is now available for sale and download at lulu.com. I ordered a proof copy of it the other day, and it came out beautifully. If you&#8217;re into poetry, then definitely give his book a preview.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/10/01/dads-book-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Onegecko Radio episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[podcast]http://www.onegecko.com/audio/podcasts/8-17-2007_show-final.mp4[/podcast] Hello folks! The inaugural episode of Onegecko Radio in which I talk about the New England Revolution this week and share a bit of my thoughts on mailed-in citations. Hope you can listen in.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/08/18/onegecko-radio-episode-1/</link>
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		<title>USOpenCup.com &#8212; Powered by Demosphere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[USOpenCup.com &#8212; Powered by Demosphere Latest results from the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. As for local flavor, looks like the Western Mass Pioneers will be going up against the Raging Rhinos of Rochester from USL. A USL 2nd division vs. USL 1st division should be interesting. Frankly, the smart money would go down on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/17/usopencupcom-powered-by-demosphere/</link>
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		<title>Independent publisher of Vermont writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I hold a degree in Literature, and have long harbored a desire to seek out and make available the best of the best of poets, essayists, and story writers in and around the state of Vermont. To that end, I&#8217;ve started up Onegecko Publishing here and made available our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/09/independent-publisher-of-vermont-writers/</link>
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		<title>Now accepting submissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now accepting submissions for a digital dada publication. Send us your art, poetry, stories, manifestos, rude sayings, and bicycle pumps to sabin at one gecko dot com for inclusion. The title of the publication will be determined by the first ten words of the first five submissions received. I will be double posting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/07/now-accepting-submissions/</link>
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		<title>Support for Vermont secession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second Vermont Republic You may have read about this on Monday via the AP, or you may have seen it in The Onion. Whichever source you heard the news from, I urge you to support &#8212; even if not a Vermont resident &#8212; this movement. While only 13% of the population of Vermont are behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/06/support-for-vermont-secession/</link>
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		<title>Ask.com search results redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new ask.com I thought I&#8217;d spend a few paragraphs on the ask.com redesign (linked above). While the search result is just about the same as the previous ask.com, with the Narrower, Broader, and Related terms being returned along with the set, the interface is significantly different. First off, they&#8217;ve created a column on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/05/askcom-search-results-redesign/</link>
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		<title>Directions in Youth Soccer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed while helping out at the U14 and U12 tryouts this past Sunday that there is a significant drop-off rate from U12 to U14. Specifically, it&#8217;s about fifty percent or so. After digging around a bit, I found out that the drop off rate is even worse from U14 to U16 and U18. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/04/directions-in-youth-soccer/</link>
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		<title>Soccer on the basketball court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just looked outside to see how my son&#8217;s doing on the playground and was greeted with the greatest sight a soccer freak like myself could see: he and a group of kids in windbreakers playing ad-hoc soccer on the basketball court. He had just scored and was running around the court, his arms out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/06/03/soccer-on-the-basketball-court/</link>
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		<title>Men&#8217;s Open Cup 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Region 1 Amateur Qualifying The US Open Cup qualifying matches are in full swing, and unfortunately there&#8217;s not much hope for our uber-local teams in the Amateur or Premier Development Ranks. Not far from here, though, Danbury United from Connecticut are in a position to challenge the Aegean Hawks from D.C. from the Region 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/05/22/mens-open-cup-2007/</link>
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		<title>Ahh, wouldn&#8217;t it be awesome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Soccer Pyramid &#8211; Wikipedia This is something I would like to see happen in this country: an interconnection of all of the various divisions of soccer. How cool would it be to see the Vermont Voltage struggle their way, season by season, to the MLS? Isn&#8217;t it about time that Rochester, NY got themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/05/14/ahh-wouldnt-it-be-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Familiar sounds; Torn heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the top of the page, you&#8217;ve probably noticed a little iframe widgety thing. Contained therein are the songs currently playing at WNCS, FM 104.7 (pointfm.com) out of Montpelier, VT. If there is a phenomenon of a radio station being the center of a teenager&#8217;s life, then this one was mine. When the options for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/04/21/familiar-sounds-torn-heart/</link>
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		<title>Saab Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago we bought a 1994 Saab 900S from ebay for $USD 950. So far it&#8217;s been a very good purchase. Since we got it on ebay, we knew it would be a project car, so the repairs we&#8217;ve had to do have been expected and fairly typical, in my mind, for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/04/14/saab-progress/</link>
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		<title>Soccer: Obsession for Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven&#8217;t mothballed anything over here. I&#8217;ve been busy with work down in Boston and figuring out all of those things. Plus, I&#8217;ve picked up an amateur writing gig covering the New England Revolution for theoffside.com. Other than that, it&#8217;s a typical April Wednesday evening here on the East coast.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/04/04/soccer-obsession-for-life/</link>
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		<title>Enterprise IA and the convergence of web/hybrid/software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As design for software and design for web continue to merge (AJAX, Flex, etc), I find myself searching for the connections and disparities between the two. What is navigation in terms of software? What is a task-oriented website design? Is there a need anymore for the click-wait-load-click-wait-load navigation model? Can context for task and space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/02/07/enterprise-ia-and-the-convergence-of-webhybridsoftware/</link>
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		<title>The degradation of American talent (or) Where have all the players gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a guy at work I chat with, and we frequently have the following discussion: whether it&#8217;s good for the United States for soccer players to increasingly be heading overseas to play. There are &#8212; at least &#8212; two sides to the discussion. I&#8217;m sure there are more, but for tonight I&#8217;m going to focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2007/01/30/the-degradation-of-american-talent-or-where-have-all-the-players-gone/</link>
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		<title>U8 Tactics: Continuing Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday&#8217;s game was a rough one. Our opponents played very good soccer. Plus, I think they were all like 8 and 1/2. They were tall, anyhow. And fast. My team&#8217;s average age is seven. In addition to age and height disparities, only 8 out of 12 of my players showed up, so I wasn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/12/09/u8-tactics-continuing-progress/</link>
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		<title>Soccer Tactics for U8: Playing Natural Positions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to put some of my ideas about soccer tactics for U8 into practice during my team&#8217;s game against Swampscott. Strategy at this level is more about finding ways to bring out the kids&#8217; natural tendencies than it is tactical thought. The focus is still on footwork: passing, dribbling, trapping. We begin to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/12/08/soccer-tactics-for-u8-playing-natural-positions/</link>
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		<title>Just one, single, giant, burning question &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heaps?! What was Steve Nicol thinking having Heaps take the final penalty kick? Heaps is an amazing defender, a phenomenal player and &#8212; yes &#8212; a local talent. But to put a defender on the 12 yard mark when it&#8217;s all down to him seems a bit much. Revolution drop a third straight MLS cup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/11/12/just-one-single-giant-burning-question/</link>
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		<title>Migration to Blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I had designs on a new blogging platform to run my site on, but time at work and other stuff has kept from it. For the time being &#8212; read: forseeable future &#8212; I&#8217;ll be posting from Blogger. I like Blogger. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I was just hoping to release at least one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/10/01/migration-to-blogger/</link>
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		<title>Models too skinny: Designers are to blame.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An age-old discussion has launched once again due to Madrid deciding that models who were too thin would not be allowed in their show. A good idea, but it&#8217;s not the models who have chosen to be thin, it&#8217;s the designers who&#8217;ve asked for them to be so. Much in the same way an architect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/09/21/models-too-skinny-designers-are-to-blame/</link>
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		<title>IA as a job: not just wireframing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I wrote that empathy is the most important attribute an information architect can have. I still believe it. Information Architecture is not just a job where you gather requirements and lay out a page. It&#8217;s not just the organization of data into neat, easily-interpreted little groups (though that part&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/08/04/ia-as-a-job-not-just-wireframing/</link>
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		<title>Italy eclipsed by a balding head butt?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Italy winners of the 2006 World Cup, there are a lot of people out there rejoicing. As they should. Italy&#8217;s soccer needs an image boost, and perhaps there can be something started as the Azzuri take the stage as champions of the next four years. Good. Yay. That said, I&#8217;m not sure that their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/07/09/italy-eclipsed-by-a-balding-head-butt/</link>
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		<title>Notes on IA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some quick IA notes to jot down. Details later on when I&#8217;m not eating. A solution that creates more problems than it solves is not a solution (if someone knows the source of this, please tell me). Information Architecture is a lot like being a marriage counselor: facilitating communication between two parties in such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/05/22/notes-on-ia/</link>
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		<title>Crazy as a &#8230; writer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get fidgety about being creative. See, I&#8217;m a writer, by nature. Not by trade, but then that&#8217;s my own little piece of the &#8220;cross&#8221; to bear, as it were. In my head there are stories of heroism and lust, history, passion, gadgets, and adventure. Plays and movies and novels and short stories all swimming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/05/16/crazy-as-a-writer/</link>
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		<title>Home to the flood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m riding home on the train to an uncertain future. Questions &#8212; possibly unanswerable questions &#8212; swim amidst the dampness of my brain as the train meanders northeast along the coast. What is the state of our basement, I ask myself. How warm is it now that the heat is back on, I wonder. Will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/05/16/home-to-the-flood/</link>
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		<title>Pictures of our flooded basement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that my earlier report of three inches of water in our basement was premature. I took a &#8220;last look&#8221; and the water had risen about a foot. Fifteen inches of water with an untold amount of pieces of our past drowned. Luckily, we&#8217;re all okay and there are plenty more opportunities for us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/05/14/pictures-of-our-flooded-basement/</link>
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		<title>Basement flooding &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If April showers bring May flowers, what do May showers bring? If you live where we do, the answer is water in your basement. Three inches, to be exact. Now, sure, you may think three inches isn&#8217;t a lot of water, but it&#8217;s enough to ruin college-era artwork of your wife&#8217;s, or damage one&#8217;s $1200 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/05/14/basement-flooding/</link>
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		<title>IRE membership renewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my renewed membership to IRE on Friday. I&#8217;m really excited about it. I was a member in 1999 while I was working at the Gardner News, so I was able to go in as an associate member with them this time around. I&#8217;m thinking that maybe it&#8217;s time to pick one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/04/23/ire-membership-renewed/</link>
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		<title>Empathy most important attribute of IA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After about 6 years of working in an IA capacity, I&#8217;ve come to realize what it&#8217;s all about: empathy. The best IAs don&#8217;t understand what the user needs, they feel what the user feels. It&#8217;s all about being able to place yourself in the position your users are in; have the thoughts they have; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onegecko.com/2006/04/06/empathy-most-important-attribute-of-ia/</link>
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