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	<title>Misfiring Neurons</title>
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		<title>The lost and found art of touch typing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember being rather frustrated the first time I tried a mechanical typewriter. It took ages to find the right letter, then push on the key with quite a bit of effort, and get a tiny imprint on the blank page with each noisy strike. I can't remember when I first tried typing on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2011/12/the-lost-and-found-art-of-touch-typing/</link>
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		<title>Marco Arment nails tablets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his Kindle Fire review, Marco absolutely nails what makes the iPad great: A tablet is a tough sell. It’s too big for your pocket, so you won’t always have it available like a phone. It’s too small to have rich and precise input methods like keyboards and mice, and its power and size constraints [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2011/11/marco-arment-nails-tablets/</link>
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		<title>David Fincher on Industrial Light &amp; Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all need more of these moments: "I thought, 'This is a bunch of guys in Wrangler jeans and plaid shirts who are scratching their asses and trying to figure this thing out,' It was horrifying and liberating at the same time." ➥]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2011/02/david-fincher-on-industrial-light-magic/</link>
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		<title>Desirable traits in software teams?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article published in Computing Now, Phillip A. Laplante ponders cultural differences and their impact on software engineering practices: [T]he question I’m addressing here is in the actual practices of software engineering— not the management of it. In other words, do people practice software engineering differently because of cultural differences? (Full PDF.) He cites some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2011/01/desirable-traits-in-software-teams/</link>
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		<title>Buzludzha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been sitting on a mountain of unprocessed photos (Hi, Valery! ) from earlier this year - finally got inspired to post a couple. Hopefully the trend holds and some more will appear in the near future. Full set here, more about the Buzludzha monument here.]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2010/12/buzludzha/</link>
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		<title>Why some sites require the www prefix while others work just fine without it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered why some web sites work if you type their name without the www. prefix, while others give you odd error messages and sometimes even result in the wrong page displaying? This is why. It all starts with DNS, the Domain Name System. When you type a name in the address bar of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2010/11/www-prefix-in-website-names/</link>
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		<title>Sushi and compact camera musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raw fish: om nom nom! I have had my Canon S90 for nearly a year! Quite hard to believe - in fact Canon has already announced an update is due out soon (S95). Apparently the rear dial doesn't turn freely anymore on the S95 but I haven't actually found that the loose one on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2010/08/sushi-and-compact-camera-musings/</link>
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		<title>Quick and dirty web service testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For command line geeks (on Windows the easiest way to get these utilities is to install Cygwin): curl -s -d @request.xml -H "Content-type: text/xml" \ http://example.com/endpoint &#124; xmllint --format - Create a file request.xml with your XML input, pretty XML output will appear on the standard output. Curl is an HTTP swiss army knife, xmllint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2010/07/quick-and-dirty-web-service-testing/</link>
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		<title>SWI-Prolog has a sense of humor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deep Thought jokes just never get old! SWI-Prolog, when asked an open-ended question for which no rules are defined, answers like so: ?- A. % ... 1,000,000 ............ 10,000,000 years later % %       &#62;&#62; 42 &#60;&#60; (last release gives the question) ?- That's just awesome Reminded me that I haven't (re)read HHGG in recent years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2010/07/swi-prolog-has-a-sense-of-humor/</link>
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		<title>Nikon does fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some random backstage and runway shots from Africa Fashion Week, taken last Thursday - Shot with a Nikon D700 and a selection of fines Nikkors: 14-24/2.8, 24-70/2.8, 70-200/2.8 VR2, 105/2.8 VR. If I had to pick a favorite lens it would definitely be the 14-24/2.8, with the 105/2.8 VR Micro-Nikkor coming a close second. They [...]]]></description>
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