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	<title>Ronblog &#187; Tech</title>
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		<title>Electronics for old people</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2010/02/27/electronics-for-old-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer electronics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our population ages, here&#8217;s one feature that consumer electronics makers really have to start thinking about: lock-down modes for old people.
I need a way to set up my Mom&#8217;s TV, cable box and DVD player in such a way that she can&#8217;t possibly screw it up.
Walking her through troubleshooting exercises over the phone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expensive watches</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2010/02/25/expensive-watches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of watches is a strange place.  The best watches tend to be relatively inexpensive, while some rather poor watches are priced out of range of all but the very wealthy.  By &#8220;best&#8221; and &#8220;poor&#8221;, I&#8217;m referring not to subjective things like aesthetics.  I&#8217;m not even going to bother thinking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.NET Garbage Collector making me batty, again</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2009/11/19/net-garbage-collector-making-me-batty-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote previously about two things I had learned, through great pain, about the .NET garbage collector.
Now I have another lesson to add to that.
It a common requirement to have only a single instance of an application running.  If the user tries to launch another instance, the new instance is supposed to detect the presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delay-loading assemblies in .NET</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2009/07/17/delay-loading-assemblies-in-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to find a .NET equivalent to the &#8220;/delayload&#8221; option that the linker has for unmanaged code.  For the uninitiated, &#8220;/delayload:someDLL.dll&#8221; changes the resulting .EXE/.DLL so that someDLL.dll will not be loaded until the first time a function in it is called.  It&#8217;s a handy option you can use so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.NET garbage collector making me batty</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2009/06/11/net-garbage-collector-making-me-batty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a few days trying to track down a garbage collection problem in some code I&#8217;ve been working on.  I finally figured it out.  Along the way, I&#8217;ve learned more about .NET garbage collection than I ever wanted to know, and discovered a useful tool to help with these kinds of problems.

I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/09/09/large-hadron-collider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s most powerful particle-accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is scheduled to be switched on for the first time tomorrow.  There are assorted kooks who believe that the LHC will destroy the world in one or more of the following ways:

Create a microscopic black hole which will devour the Earth.
Trigger the hypothetical vacuum metastability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology of risk</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/02/01/psychology-of-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/02/01/psychology-of-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article I just read, linked from Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog (one of my favourite morning reads), about how irrational people are about judging and comparing risk.  People often overestimate one risk, and underestimate another, and end up making poor choices.
An example from the article: after 9/11, people became irrationally afraid of flying.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transferring ratings from Gallery2 to ACDSee</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/20/transferring-ratings-from-gallery2-to-acdsee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/20/transferring-ratings-from-gallery2-to-acdsee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wanted to transfer the image ratings from one of my online photo galleries into the ACDSee program I use to manage my photos at home.  It was a large album, thousands of photos, so doing this by hand was just not going to happen.  Here&#8217;s how I did it.
Gallery2 does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA11-NIS iPod interface in my G35</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/08/04/pa11-nis-ipod-interface-in-my-g35/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/08/04/pa11-nis-ipod-interface-in-my-g35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Monster iCarPlay Wireless 200 FM transmitter that I was using to play my iPod in my car.  It is a pretty cleverly designed thing, tunable to any frequency.  So you don&#8217;t have to try to find eight preset frequencies and hope they&#8217;ll cover everywhere you ever want to go.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D975XBX / Conroe build hassles</title>
		<link>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/30/d975xbx-conroe-build-hassles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/30/d975xbx-conroe-build-hassles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assembling the new computer proved to be quite a source of frustration.  But I got it going.  And so begins the epic saga&#8230;

Seasonic M12 Power Supply
The Seasonic M12 modular power supply is pretty cool, it does reduce the cable clutter a fair bit.  But not as much as I would like.

For some reason, [...]]]></description>
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