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		<title>My philosophical wonderings of illumination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in high school, I worked with a man who wrote on a small, scrap piece of paper &#8220;Light in the absence of eyes illuminates nothing.&#8221;  At the time I did not think much of it, but that saying has remained with me for quite some time.
Lately, I&#8217;ve wondered about the authenticity of such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/09/143-my-philosophical-wonderings-of-illumination/</link>
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		<title>Hackers attack popular Facebook, Twitter sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Representatives from both Facebook and Twitter have confirmed today that attackers executed successful Denial of Service attacks against their respective web sites causing downtime and confused users during the event.  Twitter was down for a couple of hours.  Both web sites claim to have completely restored functionality for all social networking fanatics the world over.
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/08/135-hackers-attack-popular-facebook-twitter-sites/</link>
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		<title>Web site publishes hacked Twitter documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to TechCrunch, a popular technology information center, they were sent more than 300 sensitive documents that were &#8220;easily&#8221; obtained by a hacker.  The documents contain everything from financial predictions to meeting minutes and even pass codes that can be used for Twitter office buildings.
TechCrunch said they won&#8217;t publish more sensitive information like pass codes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/07/129-web-site-publishes-hacked-twitter-documents/</link>
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		<title>PHP 5.3.0 has been released to public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHP 5.3.0 is out of &#8220;Release Candidate&#8221; stage and is now the latest stable version of by far the easiest programming language available for web use, PHP.  Run over to the PHP.net web site and pick out the update to take advantage of some of its new features, like namespaces and garbage collection.
From the PHP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/07/124-php-5-3-0-has-been-released-to-public/</link>
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		<title>Google wants share of operating system market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;m convinced &#8211; Google truly does want to take over the world.  It&#8217;s only a matter of time before the search engine giant starts manufacturing smart weapons for the military.  In their latest iteration of computing dominance, they are putting together an operating system, called Google Chrome OS, that essentially works entirely online.
&#8220;Operating systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/07/120-google-wants-share-of-operating-system-market/</link>
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		<title>GOES-O satellite blasts into space from Cape Canaveral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice shot of the GOES-O satellite riding aboard a Delta IV rocket blasting into space that will end up more than 22,000 feet above the earth&#8217;s surface.  The satellite was built to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with weather and environmental data.

From Wikipedia&#8217;s description of GOES-O, &#8220;The Geostationary Operational Environmental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/06/114-goes-o-satellite-blasts-into-space-from-cape-canaveral/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up with the recent high profile deaths?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last month or so sure has been a deadly one for high profile American personalities.  The first to die was late-night announcer Ed McMahon, then &#8220;Charlie&#8217;s Angels&#8221; star Farrah Fawcett sucummed to her battle with cancer.  Next in line was the &#8220;King of Pop&#8221;, Michael Jackson, who apparently died of a heart attack.  And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/06/103-whats-up-with-the-recent-high-profile-deaths/</link>
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		<title>When merging into traffic, find the gas pedal!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the first to admit that I&#8217;m a fast driver &#8211; not a reckless driver, but a fast driver.  You&#8217;ll usually find me cruising about as fast as other people will allow on the roads.  Sometimes that works out great, other times not so much.  One of my biggest pet peeves is watching (from behind) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/06/92-when-merging-into-traffic-find-the-gas-pedal/</link>
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		<title>Is Internet Explorer 8 a decent product?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a web developer by trade.  I spend my days in front of a computer screen typing away code that makes web applications work.  One of the biggest gripes web developers have about this business is compatibility between browsers.  Each browser manufacturer each has their own interpretation of HTML, CSS, Javascript and other technologies that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/06/51-is-internet-explorer-8-a-decent-product/</link>
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		<title>Deep sea photography captures striking images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Underwater photography is a lot of fun &#8211; so long as you&#8217;re using an underwater camera and not thoroughly destroying your regular one.  This photo was taken by a National Geographic photographer by the name of Emory Kristof who was involved in the design of an underwater robot (equipped with photographic equipment) that found the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thewanderingtopic.com/2009/06/45-deep-sea-photography-captures-striking-images/</link>
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