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	<description>Personal blog of Pariah S. Burke and home to the Saturday Slant and the Memes List</description>
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		<title>Pilot Humor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	After every flight, pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which  conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during  the flight that need repair or correction. The mechanics read and  correct the problem, and then respond in writing on the lower half of  the form what remedial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2008/05/pilot-humor/</link>
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		<title>Ma Is Gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My maternal grandmother passed away Saturday night before 11 PM EST.
	The wake is scheduled for Tuesday evening in Quincy, MA, with the funeral the following morning. I don&#8217;t know if I can or will travel from Oregon in time to make either the wake or funeral.
	At the moment I&#8217;m just trying to finish my column [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2008/05/ma-is-gone/</link>
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		<title>Ma Is Dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My grandmother, Sarah Taylor, is dying. Last weekend she was brought into New England Medical Center hospital for extreme low blood pressure, which her regular doctor said Tuesday was a relatively innocuous byproduct of recent medication dosage changes. Ma&#8212;I&#8217;ve always called her Ma and have been more like her seventh child than her first grandchild&#8212;was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2008/05/ma-is-dying/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Gotten Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Despite my best efforts, it&#8217;s gotten ugly.
	I moved out as fast as I possibly could, into a temporary apartment with the minimal furniture and items I need to work and sustain myself and my two cats (I don&#8217;t even have a bed; I sleep on the floor). Infact, I moved out more than 2 weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2008/04/its-gotten-ugly/</link>
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		<title>Splitting Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My long-time girlfriend, whom I often referred to in recent years as my wife, has asked that we split up (I keep wanting to say &#8216;divorce&#8217;). I&#8217;ve agreed that that&#8217;s for the best. Timing, they say, is everything. Though splitting up is in both of our better interests, the circumstances and the timing suck. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2008/03/splitting-up/</link>
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		<title>Betrayed by My Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Today we got a new TV, and it reminded me of something I just can&#8217;t get out of my head. It&#8217;s something unpleasant, and it keeps rattling around in my head.
	(I&#8217;ve begun posts on this topic before, but I kept getting too far into details no one would read&#8212;not that I expect anyone to read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2007/09/betrayed-by-my-brother/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Me, Not About Pariah S. Burke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I began this blog to share my thoughts and feelings; it’s a place for me to vent. That was years ago, before the “blog-olution” and the idea that a blog is a mandatory component of every good marketing campaign. This site was never part of marketing Brand Me. This is my personal blog, but for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2007/07/its-about-me-not-about-pariah-s-burke/</link>
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		<title>Cut Through Telephone Voice Systems&#8212;To a Real Human!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The GetHuman Project is a volunteer Website devoted to improving the quality and speed of telephone support and service systems in the US. The Website offers general tips and advice for speeding through and getting the most out of dealing with any company over the phone. For instance, did you know that most companies&#8217; Spanish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2007/02/cut-through-telephone-voice-systems-to-a-real-human/</link>
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		<title>Ghost Rider Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This past Friday, Strawberry Blonde and I surprised Mojo by checking her out of school to go see Ghost Rider on opening day. Mojo, whose grades had been suffering the first part of the year, worked hard and brought D&#8217;s and F&#8217;s up to A&#8217;s and B&#8217;s in the last grading period, and seeing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2007/02/ghost-rider-review/</link>
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		<title>Keith Olberman on Bush&#8217;s Plan to &#8216;Sacrifice&#8217; 20k U.S. Troops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olberman speaks directly to Mr. Bush about the BBC news report stating that Bush will announce the commitment of 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq. 
	It&#8217;s a powerful, empassioned response that sums up the frustrations many of us feel. 
	Watch Here.

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		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2007/01/keith-olberman-on-bushs-plan-to-sacrifice-20k-us-troops/</link>
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		<title>The Holy Grail of Page Layout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Yup, calling something the Holy Grail is pretty bold&#8212;and overused. In this case, however, it really does apply.
	Yesterday I released Page Control, a plug-in for InDesign CS and InDesign CS2, developed in cooperation with DTP Tools. Page Control answers a need left open for 22 years: The ability to create a single document with multiple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/10/the-holy-grail-of-page-layout/</link>
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		<title>My Cat Saved My Family&#8217;s Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	You read about this sort of thing in Reader&#8217;s Digest or in a Chicken Soup book and you wonder: Would my pet react like that? Could my pet save my life? My cat did. She saved the lives of my girlfriend, my daughter, and myself.
	Saturday morning I awoke with a lightness and nearly uncomfortable ache [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/09/my-cat-saved-my-familys-lives/</link>
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		<title>FeedWordPress: Content Theft with Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Today, while searching for a different WordPress plugin, I ran across this troubling post from John TP from last week:
	&#8220;
	
My blog posts have been reblogged a few times in Splogs in the past and that too directly from my feeds. After switching to partial feeds, I never faced this problem until recently a few splogs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/08/feedwordpress-content-theft-with-consequences/</link>
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		<title>Hamster Passed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Lately, I&#8217;ve been working late into the night for two reasons:  First, I&#8217;m doing a lot of server work, which is better done during periods of least activity (Midnight to 4 am Pacific Time). Second, I&#8217;m working on an instructional DVD for VTC. With the kids still on summer vacation, the middle of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/08/hampster-passed/</link>
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		<title>Happy Bastille Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Happy Bastille Day! Happy birthday, Pam!

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		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/07/happy-bastille-day/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Hard to Say it, Time to Say It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I was happily working when my random MP3 play began strumming out the sadly melodic notes of Nickelback&#8217;s &#8220;Photograph.&#8221; It got me thinking and oscillating between joy, longing, sadness, fondness, reluctance, acceptance, and nostalgia.
	As the song is still in heavy rotation on top 40 radio stations, I see plenty of people singing along in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/07/its-hard-to-say-it-time-to-say-it/</link>
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		<title>Meet Me In Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If you plan to attend the InDesign Conference or Creative Suite Conference next week, or will just be in the Chicago area, stop by and say hello to me.
	
Meet Pariah S. Burke

	I will be teaching two sessions of the InDesign Conference on Tuesday, appearing on panels throughout the week, and working the Q&#038;A Table with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/05/meet-me-in-chicago/</link>
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		<title>My Cat Farted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;m not one for bathroom humor, but this is extra special, and simply must be shared.
	This afternoon I was holding and petting my cat, Chloe. As is often the way, I held her like a baby&#8212;on her back, cradled in my arms. While my left arm supported her weight, my right upper arm acted as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/03/my-cat-farted/</link>
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		<title>Off to Texas Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I have to say, I really like Texas. Though I&#8217;ve never lived there, and my opinion might be different if I had, I&#8217;ve visited Texas more than a handful of times now. Each time has been a wonderful experience, whether it was a fly-in/fly-out one-day consultation in Dallas, two weeks on-site in Fort Worth, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/02/off-to-texas-again/</link>
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		<title>He Ain&#8217;t Heavy, He&#8217;s My Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	After a week of preparation, iamPariah.com and several of my other domain properties moved to my very own server this past weekend. No more virtual servers or worrying about whether some other guy&#8217;s Website is going to take down mine. Nope. Now I get all the CPU time, all the RAM, as much harddrive space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.iampariah.com/blog/2006/01/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-server/</link>
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