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		<title>Now, this is true customer service!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have badly needed a haircut for some time now, but had been postponing a visit to the barber shop on some pretext or another. It finally got to a point today where I realized that I had to spend a good chunk of my time on the stationary bike keeping my hair from continually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=200&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Diwali, but quite unlike any other</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diwali is here once again. For the uninformed, it is arguably the most widely celebrated festival in India with a universal appeal that usually crosses all religious boundaries. It is a time to leave all diets behind, or at least in suspended animation for a week, while you stuff yourself with the special delicacies of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=192&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After a long hiatus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/after-a-long-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to updating this blog over the last few days. The break was partly a loss of inclination to write and partly the paucity of time. I left off in June on a high note, having just secured admission to an MBA program. Since then, I decided not to take up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=187&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browsers on Ubuntu 9.04</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/browsers-on-ubuntu-9-04/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[browsers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Slate.com pretty regularly, but as it turns out, most of this reading happens on my Intel laptop that runs Windows XP. This evening, I was catching up on the days happenings on my AMD64 desktop running Ubuntu 9.04, and ran into the most irritating artifact while trying to read this article: http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/zero-tolerance-zero-critical-thinking. The problem &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=177&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TI thrown under the bus (well, maybe a Crown Victoria) ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ford today issued their largest ever vehicle recall ever that affects close to 4.5 million vehicles. In addition to the sheer enormity of the recall, the fact that Texas Instruments was called out as the manufacturer of the faulty part seemed a little odd to me. Besides the famous Firestone tire bursts involving Ford Explorers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=176&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wake Up Sid&#8217; is brilliant in its simplicity</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/wake-up-sid-is-brilliant-in-its-simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[konkona sen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch Hindi movies very often, primarily because I have a better chance of locating the needle in the haystack than I have of being able to sit through a Hindi movie without losing my mind over the potent combination of overacting, histrionics and melodrama that ensues. It is even rarer that I watch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=175&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can constant media coverage get you a Nobel ?</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/can-constant-media-coverage-get-you-a-nobel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, I believe it can. With the Nobel committee awarding the 2009 Peace Prize to Barack Obama, they have, as they say, put the cat among the pigeons. To say that the prize in this case has been awarded with the expectation that an individual will deliver on its spirit at some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=174&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cabin Pressure</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/cabin-pressure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, almost everyone has read about the mid-air physical altercation between the pilot and a flight attendant on an Air India flight that took place a couple of days ago. If you have not, you can do so here. While it was not quite as animated (or newsworthy), I witnessed another incident of air [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=173&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MBA</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/the-mba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[columbia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it did in fact turn out that my score of 700 on the GMAT was enough to make the cut. Earlier this month, I was accepted to the EMBA program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business located in New York City. This was the only application that I sent in this cycle, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=169&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the GMAT</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/taking-the-gmat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close to three weeks ago, I took the GMAT. The last standardized test that I took before this was in the fall of 1996, when I took the GRE for applying to graduate engineering programs. When it comes to timed tests (as opposed to take home exams), I am more at home preparing for and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=166&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistical research methods</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/statistical-research-methods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the drive up to NJ last night listening to a couple of podcasts from the Chicago GSB podcast series. As it turned out, both dealt with aspects of economics, a field which I have had immense interest in ever since my second year of undergraduate school. As always is the case with any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=158&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punished By Rewards</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/punished-by-rewards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[praise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stock options]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is borrowed from the title of a book that I recently read called &#34;Punished By Rewards: The Problem With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes&#34; by Alfie Kohn. This book postulates that providing incentives for performing tasks are in fact detrimental to those tasks being performed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=156&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job specificity</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/job-specificity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[home depot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a person come to the condo this morning to take measurements for laying carpet on the floor, a service that I availed from Home Depot. It took about 20 minutes to get all the measurements, and at the end of the process, the person had a neat diagram of the floor plan of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=153&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacationing in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/vacationing-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wife and I spent the week of Memorial Day 2009 vacationing in Arizona, and visited three National Parks in the process &#8211; Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest and Saguaro. Besides the heat in Tucson and the occassional thunderstorms in the evenings, everything else pretty much went according to plan, including a very stress free in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=147&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passed the PMP!</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/passed-the-pmp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after close to three months of preparation, I passed the PMP certification exam on March 30th. In the end, the exam turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be, and my expectations were based on the study material that I used and the sample tests that I took while preparing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=144&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Satyam &#8216;Nigeria&#8217; email scam</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/the-satyam-nigeria-email-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this letter was in the spam folder of my inbox today &#8211; doesn&#8217;t it look all too familiar ? Dear Executive, This is a Management Placement on behalf of Mr. Byrraju Ramalinga Raju. Mr. Ramalinga Raju is looking for an experienced business person/company that can profitably invest monies in excess of Thirty Nine Million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=136&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living up to the blog title</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/living-up-to-the-blog-title/</link>
		<comments>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/living-up-to-the-blog-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back! After being &#8216;pressed for words&#8217; for a rather long time, I figured it is time to break the silence, and jot down a quick update on what&#8217;s been happening this past couple of months. The first two months of the new year have been a mixed bag, and have kept me occupied (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=132&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Makeda</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/makeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethiopian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Ethiopian restaurant is located in the heart of downtown New Brunswick, less than a couple of blocks north of the NJ transit station. Last night, the wife, the brother and I, along with a couple of friends, decided to make this our dinner destination. As we were being walked to our table, I noticed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=129&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What recession ?</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/what-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On my drive up to New Jersey this evening, I pulled up at the Maryland House service area on I-95 to fill gas. The Exxon station has two sets of pumps, one self-serve and the other where the attendant pumps gas for you. The difference in the cost of regular gas between these two sets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=126&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working remotely &#8211; for how long ?</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/working-remotely/</link>
		<comments>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/working-remotely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been absolutely miserable over the last three days. Its ironic how the good almost always comes with a baby dosage of the bad. The wife was here starting Friday right up until early this morning, and through that entire duration, I was either running a fever or was coughing incessantly or a combination of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=122&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arre Raju!</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/arre-raju/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You lose count of the number of times Baburao Apte utters this phrase in the movie &#8216;Hera Pheri&#8217; when addressing the slick and street smart character that Raju is. If you have not seen Hera Pheri, please do &#8211; it&#8217;s a laugh riot. And today, after reading the news about B Ramalinga Raju&#8217;s resignation as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=119&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How about the Marriott, Mr. Obama ?</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/how-about-the-marriott-mr-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hay adams hotel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, I have been reading various reports on the preparations underway in Washington, DC for Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration as the President of the USA on January 20th. Many of these reports have focused on the additional resources being mobilized by the District to manage the hordes of people that are expected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=113&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blithering Idiot</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/blithering-idiot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s Eve 2008 was made memorable by this beer from the Weyerbacher Brewing Company in Easton, PA. I had never sampled a barleywine before this, so I don&#8217;t have a yardstick for comparison. Personally, it was a little too sweet and fruity for my taste. But you got to hand it to this 22 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=108&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gigapixel panoramas</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/gigapixel-panoramas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zenga</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A must see for any photography enthusiast: http://www.gigapan.org/ The panoramas that they have on the website are simply amazing. Tagged: panorama, photography<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=104&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whiteout!</title>
		<link>http://pressedforwordz.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/whiteout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[clouds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[     This is the scene looking out of the window from our apartment in Jersey City, right by the Hudson River. Stick your hand out, and you can feel the clouds condense on your skin. No natural light for most of the day today &#8211; really gloomy. In the picture on the right, on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pressedforwordz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5373646&amp;post=95&amp;subd=pressedforwordz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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