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		<title>Desk Cat Demands Pens</title>
		<link>http://53tabs.com/2010/05/16/desk-cat-demands-pens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 08:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link. [Liveleak] Join the forum discussion on this post]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9a8_1269983510&amp;p=1">Link</a>. [Liveleak]</p>
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		<title>Video podcast infinite recursion</title>
		<link>http://53tabs.com/2010/02/11/video-podcast-infinite-recursion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look what happens on this podcast when the host clicks the button to play the podcast.]]></description>
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<p>Look what happens on this podcast when the host clicks the button to play the podcast.</p>
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		<title>Pardon My Dust (On Many Levels)</title>
		<link>http://53tabs.com/2010/02/06/pardon-my-dust-on-many-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clutter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After what feels like decades of neglect, I’m happy to say I’ll be returning to occasional 53tabs posting this week. Easy tiger: no promises on volume one way or another. Still the same slacker; just trying a little harder, y’know? Exactly. Oooo, shiny Anyhow, I’m tweaking or adding a few site features over the next few days. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After what feels like decades of neglect, I’m happy to say I’ll be returning to occasional 53tabs posting this week.</p>
<p>Easy tiger: no promises on volume one way or another. Still the same slacker; just trying a little harder, y’know? Exactly.</p>
<h3>Oooo, <em>shiny</em></h3>
<p>Anyhow, I’m tweaking or adding  a few site features over the next few days.</p>
<p>So, bear with me, and thanks – both in advance and in retrospect – for your patience with me. This week I shall mercilessly pound my WordPress install with a very large crescent wrench until interesting words fall out and land with a productive <strong>THUD</strong> in your RSS reader. Fingers crossed.</p>
<p>[Also, “<em>Hi</em>.” I’ve missed you.]</p>
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		<title>to make a change</title>
		<link>http://53tabs.com/2009/03/12/to-make-a-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clutter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Self Help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two stories that I know I should be learning from: Paul Graham on overcoming distractions. By creating an Internet-Only computer. Quote: I now leave wifi turned off on my main computer except when I need to transfer a file or edit a web page, and I have a separate laptop on the other side of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two stories that I know I should be learning from:</p>
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<li><a class="bb-url" href="http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html">Paul Graham on overcoming distractions.</a> By creating an Internet-Only computer.
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<blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p>I now leave wifi turned off on my main computer except when I need to transfer a file or edit a web page, and I have a separate laptop on the other side of the room that I use to check mail or browse the web. (Irony of ironies, it&#8217;s the computer Steve Huffman wrote Reddit on. When Steve and Alexis auctioned off their old laptops for charity, I bought them for the Y Combinator museum.)My rule is that I can spend as much time online as I want, as long as I do it on that computer. And this turns out to be enough.</p></blockquote>
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<li><a class="bb-url" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/us/17texas.html?th&amp;emc=th"><span style="font-style: italic;">NY Times</span> on overcoming clutter</a>. By giving everything away.
<div class="bb-quote">Quote:</p>
<blockquote class="bb-quote-body"><p>Chasing a utopian vision of a self-sustaining life on the land as partisans of a movement some call voluntary simplicity, they are donating virtually all their possessions to charity and hitting the road at the end of May.“It’s amazing the amount of things a family can acquire,” said Mrs. Harris, 28, attributing their good life to “the ridiculous amount of money” her husband earned as a computer network engineer in this early Wi-Fi mecca.</p>
<p>The Harrises now hope to end up as organic homesteaders in Vermont.</p></blockquote>
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<p>I can&#8217;t quite see myself going as far as homesteading&#8230; but I always get that uncanny feeling when I read stories like these that it really IS that simple to make a change.</p>
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