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	<description>but with a nefarious purpose</description>
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		<title>Scrappy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Ignore all the great ideas below. @defunkt pointed me to jaml, which does a big chunk of what I was interested in.
I&#8217;ve followed the work of @hcatlin, @defunkt and @justinbmeyer on templating languages (haml, mustache and javascriptMVC) and have looked for something that met my needs. Here is an idea that seems simpler than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2009/12/10/scrappy/</link>
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		<title>RubyConf 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently given the opportunity of attending Ruby Conf 2009. It was a lot of fun being with a few hundred of my Rubyist peers. You can now see for yourself via the recently-uploaded session videos or the RubyConf-in-22 minutes video. Or read other RubyConf wrap-ups. Due to the sheer amount of information, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2009/11/30/rubyconf-2009/</link>
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		<title>On Second Thought &#8211; The Avatar Will Stay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now reconsidered my earlier plan to get rid of my avatar. Why? I&#8217;m so glad you asked. Three reasons:
I&#8217;m now identified with the avatar. I recently contacted a guy that I hadn&#8217;t corresponded with in a while and he said &#8220;Oh yeah &#8211; I remember you. The guy with the big rock man thing&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2009/09/20/on-second-thought-the-avatar-will-stay/</link>
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		<title>The Avatar Must Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, we took a trip from the Bay Area all the way to British Colombia. Near the apex of our journey we saw the most incredible sights. Orca whales, swimming at and under our boat. Brown-colored Black bears (yes, the distinction matters) by the side of the road. And on a mountain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2009/05/28/the-avatar-must-die/</link>
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		<title>Toothpicks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intending to direct a new Ruby-ist to rubyquiz.com, I hastily  misread the Counting Toothpicks quiz as the reverse of what was intended.  So here is my quick code to solve the wrong problem: converting a string of toothpicks to its underlying equation and giving the answer. I was quite happy with my short solution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/12/21/toothpicks/</link>
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		<title>Last of a Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My aunt Barbara passed away yesterday. We were never close, but she was the last of her siblings to pass on, even though she was the oldest. I know that was hard on her. Now its finally her turn. May she find rest.
She played a pivotal role in my life, long before I was even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/10/01/last-of-a-generation/</link>
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		<title>Self-Modifying Code? Or Self-Creating Code?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[aside: Why write an email that will be read by just one or two people when you can instead write a blog post that will be seen by... uh... one or two people?]
I was recently discussing the problem of tracing program execution through code that doesn&#8217;t exist.  Sometimes, usually to understand and debug a program, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/04/20/self-modifying-code-or-self-creating-code/</link>
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		<title>Its Official &#8211; My Old Product is Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pay By Touch To Shut Down All Biometric Services Immediately 
Biometric authentication transactions to cease at 11:59:59PM March 19, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; (March 19, 2008) &#8211; Solidus Networks, Inc., dba Pay By Touch, regretfully announced today that it will no longer process biometric transactions on behalf of its merchant customers and consumer membership base, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/03/20/its-official-my-old-product-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>unpack!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Update 10/11/2009: I just found a better tool, bindata, to do what I'm describing in this post. It also lists, at the bottom of the page, many links to yet other implementations of binary data packing/unpacking. Worth checking out if this is what you need.]
[Update: presentation from the 4/15/2008 Ruby Meetup is now available here.]
I like reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/02/27/u/</link>
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		<title>Book Recommendation: The Rails Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rails Way is a Ruby on Rails reference book that I bought on Josh Susser&#8217;s recommendation.  I&#8217;ve actually, to my family&#8217;s dismay, been reading the darn thing instead of just referring to it like one would a, well, reference book.  A lot of Rails&#8217;isms that I had a vague idea about I now understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnbaylor.org/2008/01/29/book-recommendation-the-rails-way/</link>
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