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		<title>Happy days! The new Roomie website is usable!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Available at http://roomiebot.com, the new Roomie website works!&#160; I use the website to turn lights and things on and off from my desktop computer, laptop, smartphone, and and old still-has-a-browser iPod touch.&#160; I spend most of my time on the Devices page, which lists all of the devices in all home automation networks on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2210</link>
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		<title>More on Roomie&#8217;s website rewrite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As stated in my previous post about Roomie, I’ve been using a lot of brain juice to rewrite Roomie’s website.&#160; I wrote the original website in ASP.NET with Web Forms, which was pretty standard for the time.&#160; Although technology like ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework existed in some form, they weren’t even on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2205</link>
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		<title>Hey! Roomie is still here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woooh!&#160; I have not blogged about Roomie in a looong time!&#160; Just like I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s desktop client component and re-wrote it, I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s web component.&#160; I started out using ASP.NET, C#, and Web Forms.&#160; Web Forms made it really easy for me to do web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2201</link>
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		<title>Notebook Excerpts: Ponderings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer I purchased a couple pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks to carry with me.&#160; One of my motivations was the desire to emulate other smart people who carry notebooks.&#160; Another was that if I saw someone with a notebook sticking out of their back pocket I would instantly find them more attractive.&#160; As my first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2184</link>
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		<title>David&#8217;s Dictionary for the Internet Age: Relike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relike (verb) To unlike and again like a post previously-liked post, e.g., picture, text, or video, on a social networking site in order to produce a notification for the target, e.g., content owner or someone tagged in the post, and remind them that you still like the post.&#160; The relike is commonly used as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2181</link>
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		<title>Your inspiration for today.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I was taught—or inferred—that happiness was a transitory, not-really-real emotion. As in, we could all do much better to be content with what we have. Who is to say what lot you were given in life? If you want something, do the work, start the conversation, save up time and money to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2180</link>
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		<title>The Tragedy of Linked Lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a comic of the same name that I saw in passing.]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2178</link>
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		<title>Use C#&#8217;s regular expression library to Convert TimeSpan and DateTime to and from strings. (Named capturing groups!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well that title is a mouthful.&#160; Long story short, as an exercise in regular expressions I wrote a utility class to convert strings to TimeSpans and DateTimes in C#.&#160; This made great usage of named capturing groups.&#160; (The download to the source code is at the bottom of this post.) Here is the DateTime regular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2175</link>
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		<title>Ouch! Googling for Bing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I bagged on Bing when it’s search suggestion was “how do I get rid of bing”, so I suppose it’s only proper to show this little gem: So Bing is search, huh Google? Sigh… I’m a jerk.]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2169</link>
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		<title>OkCupid wut?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Per a friend’s prodding, I recently got on free dating site OkCupid.&#160; Even though I am already seeing someone, it’s still fun to answer the questions and find my real-life friends.&#160; The site is full of surprises, like this email that I received today. (I deleted my personal info from the email. No stalkers for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2164</link>
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		<title>Another novel (and silly) use for Roomie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been working (rather obsessively) on Roomie for the past week.&#160; In specific, I have rewritten the XML-based protocol that allows the desktop client to communicate with the web service.&#160; (Say “hi” to it here.)&#160; The new library (which I call WebCommunicator) is sooo much easier to use than my old one, but still has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2160</link>
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		<title>Pretty Picture: Torg Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took this picture on August 27, 2010 while waiting for a friend&#160; outside Squires Student Center.&#160; You can see Torgerson Bridge in the distance. &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2156</link>
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		<title>Sneaky Chrome updates again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chrome is a true Google product.&#160; Google, whose point of view is the Internet and constantly-updating content, updates Chrome silently.&#160; Restarting Chrome very well might yield new features, which is what just happened to me.&#160; My initial reaction was, “Ah, very cool, but wait what did it used to look like?”&#160; So here’s a screenshot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2151</link>
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		<title>Roomie gets some CSS schooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I have been furiously re-writing a few key elements of the Roomie website.&#160; Specifically, I scrapped the old device button controls, which you can see here. They were ok, but they were very rigid in use, offering only two different pictures to back the buttons.&#160; Zooming on mobile devices didn’t work so great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2111</link>
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		<title>Excellent! Bing really is a decision engine.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This screenshot is pretty self-explanatory. I’m not really a fan of jumping on the “mock Microsoft” bandwagon, but this is priceless.&#160; I could say something intelligent-sounding about non-Google search engines’ difficult task of changing users’ mentalities about “search = Google”, but I wont.]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2106</link>
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		<title>Abomination or AWESOME?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my Zune.&#160; It’s small, and great at what it does: play music.&#160; With my Zune Pass music subscription, I can slurp up just about any song from the Zune Marketplace for a flat rate of $15 a month.&#160; I am also growing to quite appreciate my shiny new iPad.&#160; My friends and family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2103</link>
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		<title>Sorry, Facebook.  Even you can&#8217;t fix this.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I click on “Relationships” and this is what I get.&#160; Oops indeed… (It&#8217;s like the error message is commenting on my relationship. It&#8217;s ironic.)]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2099</link>
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		<title>How to share an Internet Connection in Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After returning home from college for the summer, I wanted to get my desktop computer online with the wireless network.&#160; Unfortunately for my Internet addiction, the desktop computer didn’t have a wireless adapter.&#160; I ordered one off of NewEgg, but in the mean time I was left without the glorious internet on my desktop computer’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2094</link>
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		<title>The Joys of WebDev (and Google Chrome software updates?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just working on Roomie (instead of studying for exams) and I cam across a very strange error. I was making some very benign changes to the navigation bar on the left side of the website, when I refresh the page to see the “on/off” buttons interchanged for the favicon (stretched horribly, of course).&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2089</link>
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		<title>Seriously, America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh no, ASS! &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/2082</link>
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