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	<title>My Hidden Room &#187; Ramblings</title>
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		<title>Building the Air Kraken Trike</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2012/02/24/building-the-air-kraken-trike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burning Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Things I made]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*** More pictures are here *** Last year, around this time, I started building the Air Kraken Trike.  It&#8217;s a project I was inspired to create from the scenes of great big things like it at Burning Man.  This article is an overview of my process, challenges, costs, and thoughts.   I&#8217;ll describe how I came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Operations Performance &#8211; The Handout</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/11/11/web-operations-performance-the-handout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So one of the issues that I deal with a lot is tuning web applications to not suck.  This is done by a few things; by monitoring, by profiling, caching, caching (CACHING!), and by tuning.  The process for making a web application more awesome basically boils down to this list of steps: Monitor your application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Tuning WordPress on Cherokee</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/11/02/of-tuning-wordpress-on-cherokee/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/11/02/of-tuning-wordpress-on-cherokee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So at work, I had a blog.  Not my blog, of course.  One I support.  So this blog was thrown together quickly to facilitate business goals.  Like you do.  And that&#8217;s great.  We met the deadline.  We got the product functional.  But performance kinda sucked.  A little backstory.  Here&#8217;s how it got set up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro Tip:  For recruiters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/09/21/pro-tip-for-recruiters/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/09/21/pro-tip-for-recruiters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tech]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Texting me early in the morning without identifying yourself is a fantastic way to piss me off. If it was your goal to antagonize me against your position and company, you did a great job. Also: When I text you back, &#8220;do not txt me,&#8221; it does NOT mean that you should then call me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/08/23/its-that-time-of-year/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/08/23/its-that-time-of-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burning Man]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s time for the annual pilgrimage to Burning Man.  Like so many other folks, I&#8217;m going.  Unlike a lot of people, I haven&#8217;t had the ticket scramble that the selling out process led to &#8212; I bought mine back in January.  Anyway, this post isn&#8217;t so much about tickets, as it is about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Not) Shooting the Perseids</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/08/15/not-shooting-the-perseids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this past Friday, I went up with some friends to Rattlesnake Lake off exit 32 on I-90.  It was a lot of fun, and we laughed and talked and drank good wine.  It was a lovely time.  I shot a lot of photos, but didn&#8217;t catch any meteoroids.  The moon was too full and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Man Tickets &#8211; How to reclaim your queue position</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/01/19/burning-man-tickets-how-to-reclaim-your-queue-position/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2011/01/19/burning-man-tickets-how-to-reclaim-your-queue-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So today, like a few tens of thousands of other burners, I was after a ticket to go burn in the desert. I got in line promptly at 10am, and got the initial queue position of 2008. SWEET, I thought. But no, there were server problems on their ticketing vendor&#8217;s side of things, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Importing Contacts into an iPhone in Bulk</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/08/23/importing-contacts-into-an-iphone-in-bulk/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/08/23/importing-contacts-into-an-iphone-in-bulk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I had a problem; when I left my previous employer, I had been using my iPhone to interface with work email.  That worked great.  But one problem that I face after I left was that all my contacts were in the Active Directory/Exchange address book system.  I asked for, and received, a CSV of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remote Working &#8211; Day Zero</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/05/09/remote-working-day-zero/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/05/09/remote-working-day-zero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 06:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ramblings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is my first day with the new gig.  I resigned from my old job about ten days, and had a nice break.  But now it&#8217;s time to get back to things.  I&#8217;m a little apprehensive about this whole thing, as this is a new way of working for me.  Changing gears in so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying is Fine &#8212; Extra Screening Sucks Hard</title>
		<link>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/04/16/flying-is-fine-extra-screening-sucks-hard-2/</link>
		<comments>http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/04/16/flying-is-fine-extra-screening-sucks-hard-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabriel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rants and Raves]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2010/04/16/flying-is-fine-extra-screening-sucks-hard-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate airports.  Not flying, flying I love.  But the process of dealing with airlines, and luggage, and most especially the TSA/Security Theater aspect of the process drives me crazy.  I flew down to SJC this week for a technical conference, MySQLConf.  It was a great conference: I met neat people, I learned new things, [...]]]></description>
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