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		<title>What&#8217;s After Free? Part 1: The Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I probably shouldn't be writing this in advance of tomorrow's Apple announcement; lots of rumors continue to swirl, describing the expected features of this device and the path out of the labyrinth it might provide for newspapers and the publishing industry.
But I'm nothing if not foolishly bold, so here it is: part one of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/whats-after-free-part-1-the-trends/</link>
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		<title>Vacation Advice for Playa del Carmen and Cozumel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I will be heading to Playa del Carmen and Cozumel for about two weeks at the end of February.
Our plan is to spend the first half of the time in Playa, and to go from there to see the major archeological sites: Chichen Itza, Tulum, maybe others. This would be the "adventure" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/vacation-advice-for-playa-del-carmen-and-cozumel/</link>
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		<title>Burr: The Rambo of the Founding Fathers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Sarah Palin's inability or unwillingness to pick a favorite founding father, I initially decided that Hamilton was my favorite. But I've reconsidered, and now Aaron Burr is my favorite. Consider:

Burr beat Hamilton in a duel. Maybe this isn't Rambo-esque in itself, but it certainly puts him a notch above Hamilton, if only in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/burr-the-rambo-of-the-founding-fathers/</link>
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		<title>A Few Words on Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been concerned about Haiti for more than a decade, ever since college. My professor and mentor Madison Bell wrote a trilogy of books on Haitian history; Russell Banks, who visited campus and was a tremendous voice, was concerned about Haiti too: Madison Bell considered Banks' Continental Drift the great American novel, and one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/a-few-words-on-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Recipe Vector: Egg Noodles with Mushroom Cream sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at Laura's behest I made a mushroom cream sauce, incorporating leftover chicken. We were going to put it on top of normal noodles, but Laura suggested we get egg noodles, which were exactly the right thing for this somewhat Stroganoff-like dish.
I hesitate to say that I "made up" the recipe &#8212; it's remarkably similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/recipe-vector-egg-noodles-with-mushroom-cream-sauce/</link>
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		<title>New Girldiver site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Laura on her first professional Web development project: a new design and implementation for Girldiver, AKA Cindy, our dive instructor.
Congratulations to both women on a beautiful and functional new site!
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		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/new-girldiver-site/</link>
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		<title>iSlate Wishlist items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the rumored Apple iSlate device had a kickstand and one of these virtual laser keyboards built in, that would be awesome, and a tempting device.
I've always been leery of the laser keyboard due to its lack of tactile feedback, but I don't think it would be worse than a touchscreen.  Given the screen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/islate-wishlist-items/</link>
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		<title>2009 Scuba notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[18 dives, 5 hours 33 minutes bottom time.
No real dive trips, though I did manage one (poor) dive in Australia. So 17 cold-water dives, one moderate-water dive. And 17 shore dives, one boat dive.
However, the last six weeks have seen very little diving as I've been waiting for the stars to align (or many peoples' [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2010/01/2009-scuba-notes/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Woods Accenture dogwhistle?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm over-analyzing here, but when I read Deadspin's account of Tiger Woods' lifestyle, I was particularly struck by the phrase "private-jet weekends with his Fortune 500 party pals."
Today, reading of Accenture's dropping Tiger Woods, I started to wonder if the Accenture campaign with Woods is a sort of Fortune 500 dogwhistle.
After all, for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2009/12/tiger-woods-accenture-dogwhistle/</link>
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		<title>The right iPhone headphones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have the iPhone, I need the right headphones.
They should be in-ear, not just earbuds, to block out noise. I'll stipulate that any reasonable current headphones are good enough in terms of sound quality: while I have loved Shure and Sennheiser headphones I've been using the iPhone headphones long enough that I'm not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2009/11/the-right-iphone-headphones/</link>
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		<title>Wanted: online banking feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish that my bank would track separate "buckets" in my savings account. 
Think of a bucket as a sort of account-within-an-account. I might pre-allocate certain percentages of deposits, earmarking them for specific purposes: 10% to my scuba diving fund, 20% for car repairs, 5% for computer repair, 15% for vacations, and the remaining half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twoideas.org/2009/11/wanted-online-banking-feature/</link>
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