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	<description>Who are you? How did you find this? Where am I? Whose pants am I wearing?</description>
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		<title>The meaning of life, in case I forget.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life is, in the end, about filling your limited allotment of time with wonderful experiences. Money is only instrumental to that end. If you have no dependents who are relying on your income, why not spend a few years doing things that many people dream about, but only one in a thousand experience? Source: Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSOT Study: Entertainers should play an active role in politics</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/09/fsot-study-entertainers-should-play-an-active-role-in-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s political environment, we have seen the emergence of popular entertainers, singers, musicians, movie stars, and so on; taking center stage to promote and raise money for the candidates of their choice. Some people feel that these entertainers should stick to their own business, while others believe that they have a right, and perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Movermerize</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/09/movermerize-csharp-systray-demo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Movermize is a little systray demo application, written in C#, that reminds you to stand up and stretch every hour.]]></description>
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		<title>Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/07/stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essay Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cells can be coaxed to do many different things. But the most versatile stem cells used in research usually come from human embryos. Cloning processes raise ethical dilemmas that are sparking intense political debate. In 2006, George Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded federal funding for stem-cell research, but other leaders in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javascript Preview Text Function</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/06/javascript-preview-text-function/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nerdism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a simple javascript function that will take a string and truncate it based on the number of characters while taking words into consideration.  Its a pretty easy way to implement a JavaScript Preview Text function. function PreviewText(length, text) { //mmccann.com text = String(text); var result = " "; var charcount = 0; length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pi to one million places</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/pi-to-one-million-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nerdism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's Pi to one million decimal places. Why? Because I can.  3.14159...(more inside, obviously)]]></description>
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		<title>Better Random Number [seeding] in C#</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/better-random-number-seeding-in-c/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/better-random-number-seeding-in-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nerdism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mmccann.com/blog/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into an issue with random number seeding in C#. I was trying to generate random numbers for a restful web service. C# was generating seeds that were creating a similar string of random numbers if you accessed it close together, it would seed the same way. I couldn&#8217;t increment the seed on each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple is Good for Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/apple-is-good-for-technology-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/apple-is-good-for-technology-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essay Practice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has recently re-emerged as a very different force in the realm of consumer technology. It brings with it a new approach that focuses heavily on walled garden computing. Is Apple&#8217;s push towards walled garden computing a positive or negative force in the technology sector. What benefits or drawbacks do you see as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goblin Market: A Poem I Like</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/the-goblin-market-a-poem-i-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/the-goblin-market-a-poem-i-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nerdism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. I&#8217;m not into Poetry, but I like this poem &#8212; and no, I didn&#8217;t realize that it was about that until I already liked it. Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: &#8220;Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECA &amp; ECA-Y Stack</title>
		<link>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/eca-eca-y-stack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mmccann.com/blog/2010/05/eca-eca-y-stack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmccann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supplements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thisisabadidea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time in my life, long passed now, when I was pretty in shape.  When I say that I was in shape, I mean that I had above a 300 on the army PT test.  On a normal day I probably spent 4 hours working out or doing some kind of sports training.  [...]]]></description>
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