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	<title>Ryan McKern</title>
	<link>http://ryanmckern.com</link>
	<description>Linux system administration out of the Boston area; loud music, sharp knives, and a slightly disturbing obsession with food.</description>
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		<title>Reaction to the unveiling of the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what I think of the iPad: Apple probably thinks they have a demographic locked up with this, but the problem is that this isn&#8217;t a computer or a peripheral; it&#8217;s some weird middle ground (by Steve&#8217;s own admission. It&#8217;s designed to appeal to people who consume media gluttonously from the iTunes Store but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/technical/reaction-to-the-unveiling-of-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Who is Ryan McKern?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take about 2 minutes and talk about the other Ryan McKerns people might be looking for.
The McKern family name isn&#8217;t especially prestigious, being best known as the surname of Uncle Leo (the best number two that number six ever confronted). But we&#8217;re not concerned with Leo McKern. We&#8217;re concerned with the traffic that funnels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megasus, or why aren&#8217;t you listening to this yet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little known fact: I love metal. Maybe not the metal that the crazy kids in black on black attire with stringy hair listen to, but metal none the less. Which is why it behoves me to point you to Megasus.
(Picture blatantly stolen from The Providence Daily Dose. Credit where credit is due.)
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		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/opinion-and-libel/music/megasus-or-why-arent-you-listening-to-this-yet/</link>
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		<title>Self-hosted Mercurial repositories and you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recent set up self-hosted Mercurial repository serving for some of the less-embarassing projects1 I&#8217;ve done (right now, my bash_profile and a scriptable wrapper around tar/bzip2/gzip) and got my hands dirty with mod_wsgi.
Of note is that while I know absolutely no Python, I had no problem getting everything up and running. That alone is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/technical/self-hosted-mercurial-repositories-and-you/</link>
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		<title>NNTP readers on OS X are built from failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the office where I work we use/maintain a newsgroup server with a variety of internal newsgroups where everything from items for sale to complaints and hassles are posted. Late last year I went pretty much all-Mac, all the time, with a Remote Desktop window connected to a Windows machine in the office which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/technical/applications/nntp-readers-on-os-x-are-built-from-failure/</link>
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		<title>nice marmot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While this would have been better posted to bash, I present a snippet from Triple-Em himself regarding an inadequacy in the standard I/O libraries available to him:
1:37:20 PM Matthew Miller: Think I&#8217;m going to write an RFC with the suggestion that we extend the standard 4 option I/O error handling directives &#8212; Abort, Retry, Fail, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/friends/nice-marmot/</link>
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		<title>Word of The Day: Pile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pile
n. pahyl


a collection of objects laid on top of each other


What happens when something is so utterly terrible that it&#8217;s heaped into a mound of failure, resembling nothing so much as a collection of animal shit, which you&#8217;ve probably just stepped in.


Example: The kerfuffle over this subdomain and it&#8217;s associated implications for the document root [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/informational/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-pile/</link>
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		<title>Yehuda Katz finds culinary religion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his post titled &#8220;Delicious Food&#8220;, Yehuda Katz (of Ruby community fame or infamy, depending on your point of view) discusses his recent branching out into a life of truly considering his diet.
While this is only one incident, I hope it portents a seachange. I find that more and more the Powers That Be are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/culinary/yehuda-katz-finds-culinary-religion/</link>
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		<title>Text editing for fun and profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve begun attempting to streamline the process of maintaining the scripts and config files that I have to touch day to day as part of both my job and my hobby. I&#8217;ve basically used TextMate for everything, which I&#8217;ve previously discussed (particularly it&#8217;s use in conjunction with CSSEdit, which we&#8217;ll come back to). But this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/technical/applications/text-editing-for-fun-and-profit/</link>
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		<title>A broken upgrade? NO! NEVER! (hardly ever&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HELLO TO THE GOOGLERS DROPPING IN REGARDING WP-CONTENT!
If you&#8217;ve stopped in, this pertains mostly to the use of automatic updates over SSH2 not working for me in WordPress 2.8. If you&#8217;re not experiencing this problem, I don&#8217;t think this write-up will be of much help. But feel free to stick around a while. We&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanmckern.com/informational/site-meta/a-broken-upgrade-no-never/</link>
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