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		<title>iPhone, iPad firmware corruption on Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was having trouble updating my iPhone and iPad software to the latest iOS version.&#160; iTunes would download the update without a problem, but then fail while “processing” the file, claiming that the firmware file was corrupted.&#160; I tried all the usual suggestions (reinstall iTunes, try it from a different user account, turn off anti-virus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantitative Skepticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an idea for a course that’d be appropriate for high school or college.&#160; The basic idea is to try to distill and bring together a set of knowledge, skills, and habits that allow people to think critically about quantitative information. I’d call this course Quantitative Skepticism, which I think captures the sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast has a strange sense of fairness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard about the Comcast/Level 3 dispute around the ‘tubes by now.&#160; If not, then a few links for background are in order.&#160; They each give a summary, so pick your favorite. NY Times &#8211; Media Encoder Blog Ars Technica Susan Crawford My summary is this: Level 3 runs a major Internet backbone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please, use your computers safely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but time (as it does) has gotten away from me.&#160; I started thinking about this issue back around the end of 2008 or so when it was announced that, globally, laptop sales had exceeded desktops.&#160; It’s easy to see the appeal: setting up camp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 3G Earbuds&#8217; inline mic, controls not working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just solved a rather curious problem with my iPhone 3G S and since previous posts on this site with troubleshooting information have gotten some hits and seem to be of periodic use to people, I though I’d post my solution for posterity. I used this method on an iPhone 3G S, but I’m confident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new approach to China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big news today for free speech on the internet! Google has announced that they will no longer censor search results on google.cn.  Here&#8217;s Google&#8217;s official announcement on their blog, and a NY Times story covering it.  While Google is not the most popular search engine in China, it certainly is the leader among American providers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selfish WiFi Sharing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to share my internet connection over WiFi, but there are a couple reasons I don’t. I don’t want it to impact the bandwidth I have when I’m using my connection. I don’t want them to use it in such a way that it triggers my ISP to throttle my connection. I don’t want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes 9 + Win 7 Play Nicely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m running the Windows 7 Release Candidate, and pulled down Apple’s new iTunes 9, which debuted on last Wednesday.&#160; I noticed a little added feature: It seems iTunes 9 takes advantage of the Windows 7 taskbar enhancements and adds a back, play/pause, and forward button below the live preview.&#160; It also adds a balloon above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Email Distraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In terms of our interaction, email used to be essentially snail mail that you could send and receive instantly.&#160; But our interaction with email has moved far beyond this simple analogue of open mailbox, get messages.&#160; The postman comes to my house once a day; whatever letters come, that’s all there is until tomorrow.&#160; The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buhjillions.spikecurtis.com/ending-email-distraction/</link>
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		<title>Entropy is the opposite of knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Atwood, over at Coding Horror posed an interesting little puzzle about probability: Let&#8217;s say, hypothetically speaking, you met someone who told you they had two children, and one of them is a girl. What are the odds that person has a boy and a girl? To put it in more precise language so we [...]]]></description>
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