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		<title>Believe in your product, believe in yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/03/believe-in-your-product-believe-in-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belief creates reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I found myself inspired by waffles, real Belgian zucker waffles.  Do you know the difference between real Belgian zucker waffles and American waffles?  Yeast dough.  Real Belgian zucker waffles use yeast, essentially a brioche dough while Americanized waffles use baking powder.  I didn&#8217;t really find the waffles themselves to be inspiring.  Yes, they were [...]


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		<title>Nobody uses the internet on Fridays</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/03/nobody-uses-the-internet-on-fridays-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curiosities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Friday and there the internet sits, unused.  It reminds me of the poor hamster left in the classroom for the weekend when all the kids go home.  It is happy to finally be left alone without all the tap-tap-tapping on its hamster cage and all those snotty fingers trying to pet it, but in [...]


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		<title>Five Ways to Celebrate Springtime in March</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/03/five-ways-to-celebrate-springtime-in-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/03/five-ways-to-celebrate-springtime-in-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domesticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cabin fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt it this morning.  I thought I felt it last month, but I truly felt it this morning.  Spring is coming.  In Chicago there are still large piles of snow in the middle of parking lots and I&#8217;m still very appreciative of my heavy blankets at night, but there is something in the air.  [...]


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		<title>The Orchard is Filled with Apples Worm-Ridden and Not</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/the-orchard-is-filled-with-apples-worm-ridden-and-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/the-orchard-is-filled-with-apples-worm-ridden-and-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fictional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AUTHOR NOTE: I was rummaging through my closets and I came upon a stack of notebooks filled with random writing.  I remember writing the piece I am presenting here in reaction to the a few things.  First, I would get upset when I see a movie or read a book that could have [...]


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		<title>Technorati claim post</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/technorati-claim-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/technorati-claim-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technically Insightful]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perfunctory technobabble in order to claim this blog on Technorati.com.
Claim code: EZ3M8GSAX54B


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		<title>Nobody uses the internet on Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/nobody-uses-the-internet-on-friday-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/nobody-uses-the-internet-on-friday-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curiosities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Got Back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curvy women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to know a secret?
Today is Friday and the fact of the matter is, nobody, I mean NOBODY uses the internet on Friday.  It is like finding out there is a perfectly good sports car in the garage with the keys in it and nobody is driving it.  WWFBD? What would Ferris Bueller [...]


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		<title>Be Human</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/be-human/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/be-human/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excogitations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At lunch I was listening to a podcast of On The Media, an NPR show that analyzes the media.  Bob Garfield was inteviewing Don Corrigan, the editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times who had covered a shooting in his hometown.  He spoke about receiving phone calls from national press asking for interviews.  He [...]


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		<title>Nobody uses the internet on Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/nobody-uses-the-internet-on-friday-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Friday and look at that, the internet is just sitting there, unused.  Now is the time for me to take it and do with it what I want. 
The new &#8217;search&#8217; of the internet is &#8216;local&#8217;.  I know, all these phrases and words that barely make sense are the new &#8216;I want [...]


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		<title>Luck As A Skill?</title>
		<link>http://www.seandfrancis.com/2010/02/luck-as-a-skill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be lucky &#8211; it&#8217;s an easy skill to learn &#8211; Telegraph (via Lifehacker)
There is a lot of interesting information being passed in this article about this fascinating study.  I feel like I qualify as a generally unlucky person.  I also qualify as a tense person.  I&#8217;m the proverbial cat in a room [...]


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		<title>Mobile blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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Oh no, a Meta post. I joined the 21st century and now have a phone worthy of a self describes geek. A phone that empowers me to blog anywhere I want (that has a decent signal).
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