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	<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve only got one word for you:</title>
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		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Java Generics &#8211; a problem I couldn&#8217;t quite overcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, Java Generics work quite well for 99% of my needs when doing generic programming. The API is fairly intuitive, and I rarely have to use the weird features like &#60;? super T&#62; or whatever. However, I came across a situation that generics couldn&#8217;t quite handle. I was working on a GWT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Screw you gnome-terminal!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, geekiness time. Most people hate a blinking cursor in a terminal &#8211; that huge blinking square is irritating beyond belief. Strangely, though, a blinking caret (the thin line you see in most text editors) is quite all right by most people. However, in their infinite wisdom, GNOME decided that all users want the caret [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Sin, depression, and norms, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this morning, I laid out my best understanding of what sin is. Short version: it&#8217;s bad, yo. No surprise there.  Historically, there are Seven Deadly Sins: lust gluttony greed sloth wrath envy pride Really, though, you can boil those Seven down to two: covetousness (lust, gluttony, greed, envy) and self-idolatry (sloth and pride). In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sin, depression, and norms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Lent, which means that it&#8217;s time to fire up the Sackcloth and Ashes Machine in most mainline Christian churches. Now, the Catholics have this area pretty well perfected compared to most Protestant churches (I can&#8217;t speak to Orthodox faiths and their attitude towards sin, but never mind). However, we Lutherans like to dwell on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Life on hold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found out today it will be &#8220;three to four weeks&#8221; until I am able to close on my condo. This comes one week after the nominal close date specified in the contract I signed back in June, a date the selling agent had agreed to in advance. This whole situation is frustrating beyond belief. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Musical art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been listening to Pandora Radio a bunch lately. It is an amazing site, especially to test-drive new artists. In my case, I&#8217;ve been listening to stations based on Imogen Heap and Regina Spektor. They&#8217;re both solo female artist singer-songwriters, but their styles differ quite a bit. Imogen tends to do a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Brutha, can you spare a quarter mill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oy, I&#8217;ve been a total slackass about blogging lately. Lots of stuff going on. Orbitz is history, and I&#8217;ve been working as a contractor for a printing middleman company called InnerWorkings. The headquarters are in the old Montgomery Ward warehouse on Chicago Ave. right on the Chicago River. This building is almost 100 years old, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Going on vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m leaving for a while for my parents&#8217; place starting Friday 6/29 &#8211; I&#8217;ll be back in Chicago around on July 8. One thing I am going to try to do while gone is get my mind back in order. I have been spiraling pretty quickly down into a pseudo-depression yet again, and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=22</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been banned from panda-djork.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I guess that&#8217;s it. Butai made some thread about Karazhan and made a snide comment about how we banned Mallrat because &#8220;he took matters into his own hands&#8221; or whatever. I made a terse post about how, no, what he did fucked up our planned Kara run. Evidently that was a bannable offense. Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peter-aarestad.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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