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		<title>Voting For McCain Is Un-American</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/voting-for-mccain-is-un-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a political rant. If McCain wins I&#8217;m leaving. Seriously. Republicans are pulling out all the stops: Socialism, Redistribution of Wealth, Higher Taxes, and Big Spending. They&#8217;re fanning latent (and not so latent) racism and xenophobia along with tapping into the &#8220;poor white male&#8221; inferiority complex. They&#8217;ve struck a chord with a plumber named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=102&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CX Remounts &#8211; It&#8217;s The Right Foot Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyclocross]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://messyboy.wordpress.com/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just started riding cyclocross. Until now I was completely confused by the remount. Try as I might I&#8217;d end up double hopping on my left foot. So I started checking out some videos on YouTube. And I noticed something: This is Tim Johnson (a pro). Stick with me &#8230; In the upper left frame [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=88&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning Next Season&#8217;s PMC Chart</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/planning-next-seasons-pmc-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coggan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TrainingPeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WKO+]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to ignore my ramblings and get the planning spreadsheet. The Performance Manager Chart I am a TrainingPeaks addict and have recently returned to bike racing after last racing in my teens. The best feature by far is the Performance Management Chart. I know some people will disagree, but I think that the PMC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=70&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Ain&#8217;t So Plumber Joe</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/say-it-aint-so-plumber-joe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe the Plumber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe seems like a nice guy. He talks straight and makes perfect sense. Joe mentions in the interview that the progressive tax is &#8220;a socialist view&#8221;. The last I checked, our government was taking part ownership in failing investment banks. I guess we&#8217;re already socialists. A 3% tax on %5 of the population is hardly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=61&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Simple PowerPoint Examples</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy PowerPoint presentations that make efficient use of assets. I don&#8217;t believe in fancy animations. Simple is better. Today I am going to share two slides (remember to view the slide in Slide Show mode). The lesson is: prepare your assets correctly and with some simple animation you can make it &#8220;pop&#8221; (and keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=54&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Bravo Personalities</media:title>
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		<title>Career Change in 307 Words</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/career-change-in-307-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been mulling a career change. When thinking about something so big you tend to go in big circles (especially if you only have a rough idea about what you want to do). I use nerdy devices like decision trees to run all the scenarios. Last night I had a moment of clarity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=51&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collect $200 For Passing Go</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/collect-200-for-passing-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh snap! Bankers, you might need to actually work for your money now. A need to get this off my chest. I&#8217;ve worked in investment banks. Deep inside every bank is a department that cranks out MS Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. It is like a factory. I remember nights when the department would churn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=47&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spit Bubble Pops</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/the-spit-bubble-pops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bubbles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[criminals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not an economist. I am not a banker. But it doesn&#8217;t take a genius &#8230; Looking at the chart above you get the distinct feeling that something fishy was going on from the beginning of 2006 until the end of 2007. Why were things going so blazingly well when there were already signs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=44&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Today: Reinvention, Reaffiliation, and the Nimble Identity</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/kids-today-reinvention-reaffiliation-and-the-nimble-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/kids-today-reinvention-reaffiliation-and-the-nimble-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kids today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miley cyrus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the jesus and mary chain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school I had five or six close friends. We were drawn together by similar interests in music, sports, political outlook, and general demeanor (slouching, sarcasm, etc.) Just five miles away there was probably another high school with a small group of five friends just like us. But we had never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=39&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Snoozing (The Best Alarm Clock Ever Built)</title>
		<link>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/quit-snoozing-the-best-alarm-clock-ever-built/</link>
		<comments>http://messyboy.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/quit-snoozing-the-best-alarm-clock-ever-built/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insomnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waking up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How you wake up in the morning has a lot to do with how you&#8217;ll feel for the rest of the day. When we wake up rested and energized things seem to go our way. When we wake up annoyed, tired, and anxious we tend to struggle throughout the day. I recently made huge improvements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=messyboy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5064002&amp;post=30&amp;subd=messyboy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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