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		<title>Cancun, 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, 8/12.
Got up at 3 am, flew out of RIC at 7:10, $490, Northwest.
Arrived 2 pm, via Memphis. We checked our bags this trip because of the orange alert on liquids in carry on&#8217;s. We dropped our bags off at that office and took the same van for the airport back up to the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orestes, A Tragic Romp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a play at the Folger Theater, in Washington, DC, and one of the best I&#8217;ve ever seen.  it&#8217;s a Shakespearean type play (actually written by Euripides over 2,000 years ago). When the actors use the typical language of the era, it&#8217;s just too hard to understand.
But this play had been updated, so the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan could replace Leno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of recent examples:
We&#8217;re riding down the road and Jordan asks me if I get the Disney Station on my radio.
Me: No.
Jordan: What? This car sucks.
We&#8217;re walking the dog around the high school. I stop for the dog to &#8220;go.&#8221;
Jordan: Come on, old man.
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		<title>A new direction on the job hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ve moved through the first two iterations of my job hunt&#8211;ramping up my profiles on Google and LinkedIn, and refining my resume so I have multiple versions. That looked promising for a while.

On the upswing?
I actually got two local job interviews last month. Granted they were referrals from friends, but nonetheless, things were looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This flowcharting tool will surprise you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mainframe world, flowcharting is one of those things you hate to do, but is so necessary to give a user friendly view of a system. And I&#8217;ve tried them all&#8211;Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Dabbleboard, etc. They mostly achieve their aim&#8211;to put together a flow chart, but they all make it way too difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cobol shortcut using sort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more common tasks for a Cobol program is to take some action on matching records from two flat files. This is fairly straightforward, but it&#8217;s still a pain, because you have to be meticulous about testing a situation like what happens when one file hits EOF before the other one.

Usually, one just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The search for answers in a new shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me&#8211;you start a new job (or contract, in my case), and things go fine until you need some specialized piece of knowledge. Like in my case, this week, how to do a new copy for CICS? Not only does IBM change the process every now and then, but sometimes shops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 6 month adventure with (shudder) unemployment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember those days when people kept saying &#8220;Cobol is dead?&#8221; We just laughed, and kept on coding. Well, laugh no more. Cobol is not dead&#8211;there are still thousands of programmers out there. It&#8217;s just finding a new mainframe position after losing a job that&#8217;s dead. I&#8217;ve been a contractor for over 30 years, and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading by cheating&#8211;Book TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every weekend, CSPAN2 turns into Book TV&#8211;a channel dedicated to books. Most of the programs are presentations by the author of a book they&#8217;ve recently written. It&#8217;s a wonderful way to get a quick synopsis of a book without having to read the whole thing. That talks are usually recorded from a book signing event, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicious book&#8211;it has it all: intrigue, deception, treachery, violence, wars, and oh yes, a little sex. It takes place in England in the 1600&#8217;s, but covers several generations of characters. It&#8217;s totally unlike Ken&#8217;s usual spy novels, but don&#8217;t worry, this is not a failed experiment that he took in trying to [...]]]></description>
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