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	<title>The Misadventures of Quinxy von Besiex</title>
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		<title>When is a Kindle not a Kindle?  When you buy a Print Replica Kindle Edition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've always been a big fan of Amazon, not only have they defined the best of the best in cutting edge, consumer-focused internet commerce, but they've developed marvelously innovative tangential products and services (e.g., mechanical turk, Amazon S3 and Elastic Cloud servers, and their Kindle e-reader.  So it is against that legacy of fondness and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2012/01/23/when-is-a-kindle-not-a-kindle-when-you-buy-a-print-replica-kindle-edition/</link>
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		<title>Secure Anonymity with JonDo Live and VMware (or VMware Player)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're like me you're a decent law-abiding citizen who feels that privacy is a fundamental right, not merely something we enjoyed by default because technology had not yet found a way to eliminate it.  Fortuntely, technology brings us both problems and solutions.  One such solution is JonDo, a popular and somewhat proven anonymous proxy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/12/09/secure-anonymity-with-jondo-live-and-vmware-or-vmware-player/</link>
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		<title>Another Curious Tale of My Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until I've spent hours around someone, seeing their face contort into many different expressions, seeing them in different clothes and circumstances, their face remains difficult for me to recall or identify. A few years ago I learned that my experience was the exception, not the rule; I always assumed everyone had a similar struggle. I'm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/12/02/another-curious-tale-of-my-prosopagnosia-face-blindness/</link>
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		<title>The Misplaced Mourning of Steve Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sad to hear about Steve Jobs death, but not as others have been.  Most call him a visionary genius, but to me he was little more than a benevolent dictator leading a technology cult.  The awe Apple seems to create is not through revolutionary features but through the stripping out of function in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/11/17/the-misplaced-mourning-of-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Digital Target Project (for Airguns)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having renewed my interest in airguns (i.e., bb guns) I realized how cool it would be to do away with the costly, static paper targets and have a cheap, dynamic digital target to shoot at.  This is the idea I'm currently prototyping, it's a large bb/pellet trap which uses a pico projector to show targets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/11/10/digital-target-project-for-airguns/</link>
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		<title>MicroVision ShowWX+ and the Green Ghosting Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished testing the MicroVision ShowWX+ laser pico projector for a project I'm working on.  About the size of a small smart phone this little projector can throw an image from several inches to many feet across at a resolution of 848 x 480.  Just connect it to an HDMI source or Apple iPhone/iPod/iPad.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/11/10/microvision-showwx-and-the-green-ghosting-problem/</link>
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		<title>The Drozd Blackbird Fully Automatic BB Machine Gun &amp; Its Many Modifications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my 40th birthday fast approaching and my recent move from urban Los Angeles back to rural Pennsylvania, I found myself nostalgically yearning for the playthings of my early teens in the acreage of my dad's old farm house: a bb gun. And while I had loved my Crosman 1377 pistol, and before it my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/11/05/drozd-blackbird-bb-fully-automatic-machine-gun-with-mods/</link>
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		<title>Windows Tip #931: Slow File Copy in Windows 7?  Close the Performance Monitor!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a very bizarre problem. I was trying to copy a large (50 GB) file from a laptop's hard drive to an external USB drive. I'd already copied an even larger file (150 GB) one just a few hours earlier without incident. But this 50 GB file would begin at full speed (about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/11/04/windows-tip-931-slow-file-copy-in-windows-7-close-the-performance-monitor/</link>
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		<title>Big Government, Little Government, Taxes, and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to a conservative political Christian radio show yesterday and the segment was about taxes and the size of government. The host pointed out that in Jesus' time the tax rate was 1% of income (raised temporarily to 3% during war), and how everyone from that era would revolt if they were transported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/08/24/big-government-little-government-taxes-and-death/</link>
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		<title>Islam: A Religion Against Dogs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love learning about various religions.  One of those I'm least familiar with is Islam, a religion which offers the lives of ~1.4 billion people meaning, ritual, joy, structure, and answers to their ultimate existential questions.  Despite owning a Qur'an I've always been discouraged from reading into it for two specific reasons.  The first reason is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://quinxy.com/2011/08/19/islam-a-religion-against-dogs/</link>
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