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		<title>For Opinion Columns Visit JimLynch.com</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/02/for-opinion-columns-visit-jimlynch-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a change of heart about putting columns on this blog. When I first left ET I was going to use this as a place for news blogging and also for opinion columns. But I&#8217;ve decided it makes more sense to put the opinion columns on Jim Lynch: Tech Analyst and Community Manager rather [...]


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		<title>WordPress Ratings</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/12/wordpress-ratings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put up a ratings system. So click the stars to rate the posts you like/hate/whatever.   





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		<title>The Blog Is Reopened</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/24/the-blog-is-reopened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After putting this on hiatus for a few years, I decided to bring it back as I miss commenting on technology news from time to time. So here it is, I&#8217;ll be adding a different Word Press theme soon but for now we&#8217;ll go with this.





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		<title>Sorry for the Burps</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/26/sorry-for-the-burps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/26/sorry-for-the-burps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you came earlier in the week and couldn&#8217;t access the blog, sorry about that. My hosting company had been pointing to an older version of my account and it messed everything up for a while. 
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		<title>The Lazy Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/18/the-lazy-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/18/the-lazy-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can thank World of Warcraft for this blog not being updated much lately. It has been sucking up vast quantities of my free time, at the moment though I&#8217;m taking a break to recharge my batteries. I got my mage all the way up to level 38 in a very short period of time [...]


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		<title>Spam Karma for Comment Spam</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/06/spam-karma-for-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a heads up, I&#8217;ve installed the Spam Karma plugin. This should filter out all the nasty comment spam. It does have a validation thing in it but I think you have to do something to trip it to get it to appear. So far it seems to be picking up all the nasty crap.
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		<title>New WordPress Theme: Clean Breeze</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/06/new-wordpress-theme-clean-breeze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve switched themes from the default 1.5 theme to one called Clean Breeze. I&#8217;ll be tweaking the top graphic and the background in a bit. I think this is better than the default one, even as is though. 
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		<title>Blog Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/02/26/advertisements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sorry About Not Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/02/16/sorry-about-not-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with Linux World and the Beehive review. Hopefully I should be back to regular blogging tomorrow or the day after. Whew! Long day! :shock:





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		<title>Feeling Ill</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/02/04/feeling-ill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, no blogging for the last two days. I have a sore throat and don&#8217;t feel well. Ugh. Probably be back Monday or so.  





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		<title>WordPress Drop Down Menus</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/01/24/drop-down-menus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gigantic list of categories and the relatively long list of monthly archives are gone. I&#8217;ve added two drop down menus. Thank goodness, the category list was getting WAY out of control. :shock:
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		<title>Oops! Blog Goof!</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2005/01/23/oops-blog-goof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a slight accident with the index and css files I was using before. I&#8217;m waiting for my hosting company to email the backups to me. I&#8230;um&#8230;well&#8230;I replaced them with another design to see what it looked like, thinking that I had them backed up on my local drive but I didn&#8217;t. Oops! My [...]


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		<title>Merry Christmas and a Blog Snooze</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/12/20/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the holidays, I&#8217;ll be taking some time off. I&#8217;ll probably be back sometime in January, most likely at the beginning of the new year but maybe not. I may put the blog to sleep for a while. We&#8217;ll see, I think I&#8217;m in need of a blog snooze for a bit.

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		<title>Blog Advertising Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/12/13/blog-ad-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a heads up, I&#8217;ve changed the format of the ads.  
The huge top banner is gone, I&#8217;ve replaced it with a strip on the left and the ads at the bottom of the comments page are at the top of the page (minus the borders). I think this will help make it easier [...]


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		<title>CSS Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/12/12/css-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon the way the left nav strip looks right now. I&#8217;m trying to tweak the CSS and I&#8217;m having some problems. I moved some stuff over to the left that was way at the bottom. But the CSS is giving me a headache. 
I want it to look the way the text does in the [...]


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		<title>Stop Wordpress Comment Spam: Validation Code</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/12/05/validation-code-added-for-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very sorry to have to do it but the spammers have forced me to set up a validation system. 
When you go to post a comment you will have to enter the validation code displayed in the comment post area. Hopefully this will eliminate the flood of spam that has come onto my blogs recently.
Thank [...]


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		<title>Changes to Comments: Damn the Comment Spam</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/11/30/changes-to-comments-damn-the-comment-spam1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/11/30/changes-to-comments-damn-the-comment-spam1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you post a comment, be aware that it will go into a moderation area before appearing in the entry that you posted it to. I&#8217;ve gotten way too much comment spam and what looks like test comments by the spammers. So I&#8217;ve set everything up so that all comments are moderated before being released. [...]


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		<title>Popup Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/11/10/popup-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jimlynch.com/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a tweak that turns on popup comments for the front page of this blog. Please let me know how you like it. I think it might be easier than going to the individual entry page to make a comment. I don&#8217;t care for the dark brown background color of the popup comments page [...]


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		<title>No Blogging Today, Sorry!</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/11/03/no-blogging-today-sorry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/11/03/no-blogging-today-sorry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, I&#8217;ve been totally preoccupied with the election returns. No blog entries for today (except this one). :mrgreen:





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		<title>Blog Redesign</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/10/22/blog-redesign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/10/22/blog-redesign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might notice that the blog has changed a bit. I&#8217;ve had it redesigned. What you see up here still may change a bit in the days ahead but this is as far as we&#8217;ve gotten so far. Thanks to Root for his excellent work.
Be sure to reload, otherwise it might look a bit screwed [...]


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		<title>Oops! A Few More CSS Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/09/19/oops-a-few-more-css-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/09/19/oops-a-few-more-css-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re using IE, sorry. I&#8217;m having some more CSS burps. Hopefully it&#8217;ll be fixed soon. :mrgreen: 
Edit: Okay, it&#8217;s been fixed. Thank you again Artemis.  :mrgreen:





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		<title>Okay, We&#8217;re All Set&#8230;I Think</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/09/19/okay-were-all-seti-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to some help from the wonderful Artemis, the CSS problems I was having earlier are fixed. 
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		<title>Under Construction: Please Excuse My Blog!</title>
		<link>http://www.jimlynch.com/blog/index.php/2004/09/19/under-construction-please-excuse-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2004 05:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m playing with a three column design and I&#8217;m having a bit of trouble with the CSS. So please excuse me if this blog has some design glitches while I switch over to the three column design.  :oops:
The entire thing isn&#8217;t going to be this tan color forever. 
Thank you for understanding.  :mrgreen:





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		<title>The Tech Blog is Open!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my tech blog!  Some of you might have already visited my other blog and seen that it&#8217;s mostly news and politics. I made a decision a while back not to include much, if any, tech topics in it. I just didn&#8217;t want my politics cluttering up tech stuff and vice versa. I [...]


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		<title>Emoticons and Smilies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you might wonder why I&#8217;m using emoticons/smilies in my blog entries. I&#8217;m a Community Manager as well as a journalist. Online community is a passion of mine and it&#8217;s where my roots are. So I&#8217;m partial to using emoticons. :mrgreen:
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