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	<title>Raised By Turtles</title>
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	<description>None of the News that's Fit to Print</description>
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		<title>How Can Google Maps be this Inaccurate? Private Residence as Landmark?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps for our area is utterly and completely unreliable, but still manages to violate the privacy of a private citizen. How can it be this bad.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/google-maps-accuracy/</link>
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		<title>GMail &#8220;Synchronization Has Stopped Unexpectedly&#8221; Error</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a few days, my offline Gmail was refusing to synch up with the server. Every time I would try, I would instantly get an ! in the synch status and it would say &#8220;Synchronization has stopped unexpectedly&#8221;. Well, yeah. I had figured that part out.
I&#8217;m sure there are lots of reasons for this, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/gmail-synchronization-has-stopped-unexpectedly-error/</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Start an Interview Podcast Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if you don't achieve huge success, conducting interviews and listening more carefully to the way you and others speak will be enlightening. I'm just getting started on interviews, but already I feel it's changing the way I speak or at least making me aware of some annoying habits in my speech.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/start-interview-podcast/</link>
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		<title>I Must Be True, I Read It On ChaCha.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ChaCha answers questions on anything and everything. Even annual bowling deaths. Sometimes they don't check their sources so well though. I sure wouldn't take health advice off ChaCha!]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/chacha-accuracy/</link>
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		<title>Twitter for Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you promote your book with Twitter? It's not necessarily obvious, especially for those of us who are writers and scholars first and foremost. But publishers aren't doing much for new authors anymore, so you have to do it yourself.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/twitter-for-writers/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Retweet Function — Does the Length of Your Username Still Matter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, in Twitter you had to burn a lot of characters retweeting people. Twitter fixed that, but also destroyed a lot of the social proof one got from a retweet.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/twitter-retweet-function/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Tasks, not Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I keep coming across Goal Merchants, people from the Tony Robbins set who imbue goal-setting with various magical powers. They make what I think are outlandish claims for the power of goal setting. Many still love to cite the study of Princeton grads. According to the tale, some years ago, a class of Princeton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/focus-on-tasks-not-goals/</link>
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		<title>Getting Things Done by Making Slacking Hurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a certain point this year I found myself frustrated and feeling like I wasn&#8217;t getting anywhere on several different projects, while at the same time feeling like I was working too much and not having enough fun. I needed motivation, and I needed priorities. I came up with something that helps me with both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/make-slacking-hurt/</link>
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		<title>Rapid Site Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have a great idea for a website, but you're stuck making the first step. Here's a super quick way to get up and running.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/rapid-site-development/</link>
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		<title>Podcasting Advice from Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com — Thank You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to do some interviews with people at a distance but was struggling with a lot of technical issues — bad audio and video quality, cumbersome and unreliable recording process. I asked Andrew Warner, who does great interviews on <a href="http://mixergy.com">Mixergy</a>, if he would help me out. Despite a super busy schedule, he consented to talk to me and just cut through so many of the problems I had. Here's some of the advice he gave me.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/podcasting-tips-andrew-warner/</link>
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		<title>Testimonial Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So do testimonials help with credibility? Not this one! I'm sure that's a real quote from a real family, right?]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/testimonial-fail/</link>
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		<title>How Not to Launch a Social Network: Aardvark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aardvark is a relatively new service launched by some heavy hitters. But everything about the signup process sets off my spidey sense. Danger! Danger!]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/how-not-to-launch-a-social-network-aardvark/</link>
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		<title>Are You Standing by the Side of the Road with Your Thumb Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's no stupider way to hitchhike than to stand by the side of the road with your thumb out hoping someone will stop. And yet do you see people do it any other way? Which way are you living your life?]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/hitchhiking-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Knowledge is NOT Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of old saws, this one is wrong. Here's why.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/knowledge-is-not-power/</link>
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		<title>You Can Always Yell Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom taught me as a child, it's really hard to unyell once you've yelled. If you want to get what you want, start soft. You can always yell once that fails, but you once you've yelled, it's too late for the soft approach.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/you-can-always-yell-later/</link>
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		<title>Seeing All Child Nodes in Drupal Taxonomy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been tearing my hair out a bit trying to figure out how to save a whole taxonomy lineage in Drupal, so that everything tagged with a child term would be tagged with a parent term. In other words, given a taxonomy like:

1. United States

3. California
4. Vermont


2. Canada

5. Alberta



I want it so that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/drupal-drilldown/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating a CMS Theme or Template &#8211; Please Help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Validation, fixed width, fixed fonts, javascript OH MY! What matters when evaluating a theme for my Wordpress or Drupal site?]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/evaluating-a-cms-theme/</link>
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		<title>Live Mesh Review: Big Mistake! Back to Allway Sync</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Always looking for a better way to synch my laptop and desktop, so I tried Live Mesh. After many computer crashes, narrowly escaped with my data intact. So I'm back to Allway Synch, which has, in over a year of intense daily use, put my data at risk.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/live-mesh-review/</link>
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		<title>Paypal Buyer Protection on EBay is Worthless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bottom line: <strong>Paypal Buyer Protection on Ebay is pretty much useless</strong> if you have to make a claim and can actually be a smokescreen for scammers. And more to the point, <strong>don't buy software on EBay</strong>. I should have known better.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/paypal-buyer-protection-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Ice Cream For Dinner and Other Joys of Being Grown Up:  A Graduation Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most graduation speeches are full of clichés, claptrap and wicked insinuations. I have tried to adhere to that model as closely as possible.]]></description>
		<link>http://raisedbyturtles.org/ice-cream-for-dinner/</link>
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