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		<title>My New Camera</title>
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Just bought a new Olympus camera as one of my Christmas presents. I bought my old camera (Vivitar) about 3 years ago for almost the same price as what I paid for my new camera (Olympus).&#160; Although I need to buy an xd card for the camera (since the camera has 20mb internal memory) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/17/my-new-camera/</link>
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		<title>Number 1 Application Every Mac User Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Odds are if you’re a Mac user you’ve never seen this little program… it’s called a calculator. I know I know it may seem daunting, but I promise it’s easy to use. It will help you to calculate that you paid $2000 for a $500 computer in a shiny box. At this point you’ll have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/15/number-1-application-every-mac-user-needs/</link>
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		<title>Real Life Barbie Doll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the so-called Barbie Doll’s that I’ve seen, none pulls if off better than Marie Serneholt.&#160; 

Currently Listening To:    
 Marie Serneholt - Enjoy The Ride - That&#8217;s The Way My Heart Goes
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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/15/real-life-barbie-doll/</link>
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		<title>2002</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2002 was a very busy year; I spent most of that summer driving from Tarboro, NC to York, PA (which I later moved to).&#160; The iPod was out (unless my memory is really bad) and people were saying it would never take off.&#160; Having an iPod was as about as rare back then as someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/14/2002/</link>
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		<title>Taco Me Bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today just brought back memories when I use to be on the road nearly all the time and eating out at every restaurant under the sun. It got bad when I use to know what specific restaurants in chain had the best service and food. As well as taking any road and saying I’ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/13/taco-me-bell/</link>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s Source Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did manage to record a short source code yesterday, although I didn’t get a change to upload it to the site. Today I’m hoping to upload all the episodes I’ve recorded so far so we can begin normalcy again. Plus I’m cleaning up the studio for real this time so it can once again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/11/yesterdays-source-code/</link>
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		<title>Just Bought a New Coffee Maker</title>
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For the past few months I’ve been favoring the local McDonald’s for their coffee bar, finally today I got tired of paying $5 for 2 large coffees.&#160; I was thinking about splurging on a $100 coffee maker, but they didn’t have a coffee maker that spoke to me.&#160; So I went with a standard cheap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/10/just-bought-a-new-coffee-maker/</link>
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		<title>Halloween Word Count 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I had my writing marathon for Halloween, I was meaning to do a post at the end where I counted up the words, but I forgot to do that, so here you go.
Word Count for Halloween 2008 Was: 5,896
Just so you know Stephen King writes about 15,000 words a day.
 Currently Listening To:  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/halloween-word-count-2008/</link>
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		<title>Apple iPhone 3G &#34;Get iReady&#34;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is from a while back when the server wasn’t working and I couldn’t post anything with images attached.
I got this hilarious email with a PDF of Apple&#8217;s &#34;iReady&#34; campaign.

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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/apple-iphone-3g-get-iready/</link>
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		<title>My Cleaned Up Desktop (which lasted 2 days)</title>
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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/my-cleaned-up-desktop-which-lasted-2-days/</link>
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		<title>Twitter&#8230; Why I Twitter (Hint It Involves a Suicide Girl)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I almost can’t remember what life was like before Twitter (also I do understand how pathetic that sounds… but if you’re a user you understand the feeling).&#160; Wikipedia best gives a rundown on exactly what Twitter is:
Twitter
       Twitter.com
Owner      Twitter, Inc.
Created by  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/twitter-why-i-twitter-hint-it-involves-a-suicide-girl/</link>
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		<title>Lots of Motherboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the stuff I own tends to be piles and piles of books, except for this one pile.&#160; It’s basically motherboards in their boxes.

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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/lots-of-motherboards/</link>
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		<title>The True Story of the Internet - Via iTunes</title>
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I just found this gem on iTunes (Posted the link above) and it&#8217;s one every computer geek should love.&#160; It’s 4 episodes that tell the story of the Internet and the wars it created.&#160; 
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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/the-true-story-of-the-internet-via-itunes/</link>
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		<title>An Electronic Bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember the first time I went to University and I was in this electronics class, I made a capacitor blow up. We were supposed to build a variable power supply that would turn 110AC into a variable power supply that would go between 5VDC and 15VDC. I remember putting all of those parts together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/08/an-electronic-bomb/</link>
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		<title>My Cat Watching TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People tend not to believe me when I tell them stories about my cat “Elise” (named for Beethoven&#8217;s Fur Elise).&#160; Elise loves TV, she loves her soap operas (All My Children and One Life to Live), House, and Bones (there are other shows she likes but that would make the list too long).&#160; On the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/06/my-cat-watching-tv/</link>
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		<title>Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hope for the Future” that somehow the democrats don’t screw this up.&#160; They’ve got an easy win, that is unless for some reason the republicans try to cheat (like voter fraud for instance), but they would never do that.&#160; My greatest fear is that the democrats think they’ve already won and don’t bother to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/04/hope/</link>
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		<title>Tina Fey for Your Voting Pleasure</title>
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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/04/tina-fey-for-your-voting-pleasure/</link>
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		<title>The Only Negative of Sarah Palin Losing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to look far and wide, but it’s obvious what we the American people will be missing out on if McCain and Palin lose tomorrow… Tina Fey. Honestly I don’t even think the majority of people know what Sarah Palin looks like… I think they just get her confused with Tina Fey. I only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/04/the-only-negative-of-sarah-palin-losing/</link>
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		<title>I Pulled a Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office 2007 has the ability to have its spelling dictionary updated, when Microsoft finds people using a word over and over again that’s not in the dictionary.&#160; Apparently Microsoft is forecasting McCain Palin not to win, since it doesn’t find Palin’s name important enough to add to the dictionary.
 
See Obama is spelled right…

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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/04/i-pulled-a-palin/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today started off quite early at 5:30am, and then managing to get out of bed at 11am, I decided that I was hungry and wanted some macaroni and cheese. Needless to say I didn’t get any mac and cheese when the day was said and done. I had $5 in Borders bucks because I bought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/03/im-a-pc/</link>
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		<title>Midday&#8217;s Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this afternoon I spent driving after a ghost driving a World War I tank through the countryside in Wales. Apparently the marathon of “Supernatural” did impact my sleeping state because I was “Dean” in the dream and “Sam” was driving the 1967 Chevy Impala. Finally the tank crashed after we were chasing it, into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/02/middays-dream/</link>
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		<title>King of the Hill gets cancelled along with another Texas Bumpkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, I have to ask does anyone else find it ironic that of all the times to cancel the Fox show “King of the Hill” it happens to occur at the same time people are going to voting booths to “cancel” another Texas bumpkin… George Bush.
 
I always had this “feeling” that the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/02/king-of-the-hill-gets-cancelled-along-with-another-texas-bumpkin/</link>
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		<title>Sleep and Soap Operas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I slept a lot today which isn’t odd considering I preformed quite a blogging feat Friday. I stayed in bed till 2pm and then afterward catching up on my soaps (One Life to Live). I find soap operas these days are doing a pretty good job finding hot actresses to play the parts to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/01/sleep-and-soap-operas/</link>
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		<title>24 Posts 24 Hours Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did it, and I’m rather shocked that I did. I mean I did 24 posts in one day, something that most bloggers don’t do in a month. Overall it feels good and it may be something that I do next year, that is if I remember. Surprisingly I’m a bit tired, but I still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/11/01/24-posts-24-hours-later/</link>
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		<title>How to have a Supernatural Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about “Supernatural” I loved the idea of show, but thought it would never last since when I tend to like a show it gets cancelled. For those of you who haven’t seen “Supernatural” here’s a brief description from Wikipedia:

Plot
The series follows the brothers Dean and Sam Winchester, played by Jensen Ackles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/how-to-have-a-supernatural-halloween/</link>
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		<title>I CANZ NO SPAMZ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago Sarah Lacy (Tech Reporter) had a contest that she twittered on “Twitter”, that her book publisher was the same one who going to publish the “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER”. So she announces that her publisher gave her some free copies to give away and so she announced a contest for the funniest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/i-canz-no-spamz/</link>
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		<title>Make Windows XP More Stable&#8230; Remove Desktop Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After downgrading from Vista I wanted something like the built in search that Vista has. So I went looking and what I found is what Microsoft calls their “Live Desktop Search”. Desktop Search searches in the background when your computer is idle or when you right click the icon in the taskbar and click “Index [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/make-windows-xp-more-stable-remove-desktop-search/</link>
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		<title>No it&#8217;s My Avatar&#8230; No Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was article that I was writing for Flywire.org, but never got around to posting.
Here at Flywire.Org we take your comments and suggestions quite seriously, but this one comment received on a article about “How to Hack Lively”; was so hilarious it deserves its own article. Lately I’ve been so busy I’ve been slacking on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/no-its-my-avatar-no-pictures/</link>
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		<title>I See Non-Existent People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well not exactly, but after watching all 13 episodes of “Imaginary Bitches” in a row… I almost thought I did. The star of “Imaginary Bitches” is Eden Riegel (Bianca “All My Children”) who is an excellent actress and not to mention really hot. When I started to watch “Imaginary Bitches” I actually had very low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/i-see-non-existent-people/</link>
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		<title>What Day Is It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working for yourself isn’t as glamorous as the idea sounds… it’s actually better, but it does have its downsides. For instance I wake up whenever I want to wake up. For the past few years I would never get out of bed before noon, and it was great. For the past few months though I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/what-day-is-it/</link>
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		<title>Why the iPhone will Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article might sound more like an article about the wisdom of crowds than the infamous iPhone, but you’d be surprised why my theory applies. The whole buzz about the iPhone is that it’s new and no one has it. Yes I know a lot of “techies” have the iPhone and a lot of people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/why-the-iphone-will-fail/</link>
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		<title>Who Are You Again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While testing out Zimbra Desktop I learned that Yahoo let’s you basically use it like Outlook (as in it downloads mails in the background). Normally you have to pay like 19.95 a year for their pro account, but for Zimbra Desktop Yahoo lets you have that feature for free. So I end up logging into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/who-are-you-again/</link>
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		<title>College was Never like This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time when it comes to something Brit I tend to be a deer in headlights (in a good way), and my latest discovery is no different. Even if you’ve never lived in England you’ve probably heard of the infamous British soap “EastEnders”, but there’s another just as famous soap called Hollyoaks. Soap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/college-was-never-like-this/</link>
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		<title>Halloween is Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well technically it’s really only over for kids; Halloween is from 6pm to 8pm where I live.&#160; Although I remember when I was young, the times officially were from 6pm to 9pm (that is for the people who hadn’t closed their doors yet), and even then kids were out at 5pm (sometimes even at 4:30pm, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/halloween-is-over/</link>
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		<title>Family Abandons 9 Children under &#8220;Safe Haven&#8221; Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor of Nebraska Dave Heineman said he couldn’t wait any longer to address what’s been called a state embarrassment.&#160; The “embarrassment” centers around Nebraska’s loosely worded “Safe Haven” law, which in a few months has resulted parents abandoning nearly 2 dozen children as old as 17 years old.&#160; The governor had planned to wait till [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/family-abandons-9-children-under-safe-haven-law/</link>
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		<title>Cheaper Ingredients Found in Hot Dog Buns</title>
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With tough economic times it’s not surprising that companies are looking for ways to increase profits on their products.&#160; One North Carolina man opened a bag of hot dog buns only to find mouse parts baked inside.&#160; These are some of my favorite quotes:
&#34;that&#8217;s our little friend right there. And that clearly is a mouse.&#34;
&#34;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/cheaper-ingredients-found-in-hot-dog-buns/</link>
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		<title>Madonna&#8217;s Rules to Live By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Madonna and her husband Guy had some agreed upon rules that they wrote on their wall of their apartment in New York. It seems like they really only benefited Madonna herself and not to mention since they are getting divorced it apparently didn’t work either.

Guy must work to enrich his wife&#8217;s emotional and spiritual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/madonnas-rules-to-live-by/</link>
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		<title>Download the Most Famous Halloween Song Ever - The Monster Mash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This song gets played on the radio at this time of year and on a lot on Halloween day itself.&#160; This is a must have if you have a party tonight
Bobby &#34;Boris&#34; Pickett - Goofy Greats - Monster Mash 
 
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		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/download-the-most-famous-halloween-song-ever-the-monster-mash/</link>
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		<title>Get the &#8220;Psych&#8221; Theme Song for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme song for the USA show “Psych” is about 1 minute 11 seconds in length.  It’s done by an indie band called the “Friendly Indians” and they are totally awesome (and now that I think of it, the theme song would make an excellent ringtone as well).

The band’s website: http://www.friendlyindians.com/
Link for the free “Psych” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/get-the-psych-theme-song-for-free/</link>
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		<title>The Writer&#8217;s Bible (Writer&#8217;s Market)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago a couple of friends asked me if there was a book that helped writers find jobs, and just pretty much learn about the writing industry as whole. The first words out of my mouth was “The Writer’s Bible”, that of course is what everyone in the industry calls it, but of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/the-writers-bible-writers-market/</link>
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		<title>Learning French from Watching Gilmore Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not something I mention often, but I love the “Gilmore Girls”, such a huge fan I can’t even describe it. Currently I’m learning French because I want to be fluent in it, but learning any language can be hard. So I’ve found a much easier way that requires just as much work (because let’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/learning-french-from-watching-gilmore-girls/</link>
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		<title>My Guilty Pleasure and her name is Faye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally I will talk about my favorite webcomic “QuestionableContent.com”, and the fact that it bears an uncanny relevance to anyone’s life, that happens to be a hipster. Apple Fanboys, geeks, nerds, and anyone who likes coffee (most of the strips take place in the coffee shop cleverly named “Coffee of Doom”) will enjoy the strip. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/my-guilty-pleasure-and-her-name-is-faye/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Songs&#8230; Remixed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically the only thing that bothers me much other than the previous post (Christmas Already?) is popular artists of the day coming out with a Christmas album. 99% of the time the only people who enjoy this “Remixed” versions of the classics, in which sometimes they even bastardize the lyrics, are the diehard fans who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/christmas-songs-remixed/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 7 years ago or so was when I first noticed that Christmas was literally coming early…. Back in my day stores wouldn’t dare putting up decorations and stuff you buy for Christmas any earlier then the day after Christmas (Black Friday). Then 7 years retailers started creeping up on the other holidays by putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/christmas-already/</link>
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		<title>Sick with Sausage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had this wonderful plan about writing 24 posts for the anniversary of my blogging career 4 years ago. Then I got sick with food poisoning which prevented me from launching the new site at midnight, but it’s up now, so that’s all that really matters. Also the idea of a one post an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/sick-with-sausage/</link>
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		<title>How to Free Advertising for your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the ability to blog has presented itself, journalists have argued whether or not “Bloggers” or whatever name happens to be popular at the moment, are in fact real journalists.  Like for example a lot of publications that do technology related news don’t allow their journalists to own stock in technology companies; since their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/how-to-free-advertising-for-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Out of Touch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it’s just that I’m getting older, but I noticed the other day at the supermarket (which screwed up my deli order by the way) that a few of those “celebrity” magazines had celebs on the cover that I had never heard about before.  I had to actually look up who in the hell the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/out-of-touch/</link>
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		<title>I Left the Website for 5 Minutes… and this is what Happened?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey aren’t you lucky you’re sitting down when you saw the look of the new website, well unless you’re reading this on a mobile… then in that case I hope it was a soft fall.  Basically I woke up a few days ago thinking… “Hey I need a change”, and here it is… do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.FlorianSchmid.com/2008/10/31/i-left-the-website-for-5-minutes%e2%80%a6-and-this-is-what-happened/</link>
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