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		<outline text="I was going to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://free.bluemountain.com/&quot;&gt;Blue Mountain Arts&lt;/a&gt; to send a birthday card, but it's no longer free. &lt;a href=&quot;http://greetings.yahoo.com/browse/Events_and_Occasions/Birthdays/&quot;&gt;Yahoo still&lt;/a&gt; does it for free." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:27:19 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Then I found I have a busted pipe. Not a Unix pipe -- a water pipe. In front of the house. It's been out for at least a couple of days. I have no idea where the valve for this broken pipe is, but I can see the money flowing down the driveway. No chance of getting a plumber out here until tomorrow. In California you have to fix these things quickly. $500 water bills happen. This month. No doubt." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:44:08 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Calling Unix gearheads. We need a UserTalk script that generates encrypted passwords as if they were produced by Unix's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/crypt.html&quot;&gt;crypt&lt;/a&gt; function. The docs are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm&quot;&gt;very scary&lt;/a&gt;. But the hash &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;function must not be horribly difficult to code. I'd rather not have to call a Perl XML-RPC handler to get the hash, but that's what people are telling me to do. I can't believe it. " created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:00:41 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sabren.net/code/python/crypt/&quot;&gt;Michal Wallace&lt;/a&gt; has meandered through this territory in Python. JY Stervinou found &lt;a href=&quot;http://helma.org/source/cvsweb.cgi/hop/helma/util/Crypt.java?sortby=date&quot;&gt;Java code&lt;/a&gt; that does what crypt does. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lazerware.com/software.html&quot;&gt;Leonard Rosenthol&lt;/a&gt; did a Crypt UCMD for Frontier. That's the closest yet. He includes source. (But the server is not accessible.)" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:06:33 GMT"/>
		<outline text="CNN: &lt;a href=&quot;http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/12/26/bangladesh.nude/index.html&quot;&gt;Nude robbers succeed with barely a struggle&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:20:50 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imagemagick.org/&quot;&gt;ImageMagick&lt;/a&gt; is a &quot;robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats.&quot;" created="Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:05:09 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The period between now and early-mid January is often the most productive part of the year. Four years ago in this period we started syndicating &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1997/12/15/scriptingNewsInXML&quot;&gt;Scripting News in XML&lt;/a&gt;. What new stuff will we create between now and January 11 when the lights come back on? Only time will tell." created="Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:14:03 GMT"/>
		<outline text="What is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serence.com/&quot;&gt;Serence?&lt;/a&gt;" created="Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:55:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="A List Apart: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alistapart.com/stories/macbrowsers/&quot;&gt;Mac Browser Roundup&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://fm4.orf.at/sonja/67948/main&quot;&gt;Orf is running&lt;/a&gt; a piece on weblogs, in German.&lt;a href=&quot;http://fm4.orf.at/sonja/67948/main&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" created="Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:43:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/opinion/26FRIE.html&quot;&gt;Thomas Friedman&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;If everybody flew naked, not only would you never have to worry about the passenger next to you carrying box cutters or exploding shoes, but no religious fundamentalists of any stripe would ever be caught dead flying nude, or in the presence of nude women, and that alone would keep many potential hijackers out of the skies.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="BTW, I had to take off my shoes going through security for the flight down to San Diego. Luckily I was wearing clean socks. This was my first plane trip since Sept 11. The security at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sjc.org/&quot;&gt;SJO&lt;/a&gt; was awesome. The line streteched down to baggage claim. People kept their sense of humor. It moved fast. The best security perhaps was that everyone got to know each other. On the flight home last night I had a fantasy of a Saudi fanatic hiding in the Santa Cruz Mountains with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gstinger/frame.htm&quot;&gt;Stinger missile&lt;/a&gt;. We landed safely anyway. " created="Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:47:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/21/2001picks.html&quot;&gt;O'Reilly editors&lt;/a&gt; pick the best of 2001. I like this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/12/21/2002.html&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; by Cory Doctorow, looking forward to a 2002 without carpetbaggers." created="Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:44:17 GMT"/>
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