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		<title>TechnoGeeking Out for a Day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to be even more productive, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with new software on the iPad and integration with my laptop. Who&#8217;d have thunk that my laptop would be considered the clunky, cumbersome, heavy thing to haul around?! I digress. I&#8217;ve customized PDF files to autocalculate my students&#8217; speech scores in class so that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=599&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always think about posting to this blog late at night just as I&#8217;m falling asleep.  Of course, once awake, I lose the brilliance that was last night&#8217;s inspiration and this is the result. To catch up: The blog was initially begun as a way for family and friends to keep track of me while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=585&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviews: To Read or Not to Read, that is the Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(With apologies to THE Bard). To read, or not to read–that is the question: Whether &#8217;tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of overwhelming flattery Or to take arms against a sea of critics And by opposing, end them […] aye, there&#8217;s the rub. I opened my email this morning to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=570&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buy the Book.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sure wish we could make money from fanfic, &#8217;cause if that were the case I&#8217;d be sitting on a cool million by this point.  One story alone has generated 180-thousand hits. Alas, there&#8217;s that whole copyright infringement, yada, yada, yada. But, that said, I do have a book published. I am teaching my students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=554&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Update to the Warner Brothers, Flixster, Harry Potter 7 part 2 Saga&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel obligated to update you, my loyal blog readers (all, what, five of you?) on the status of my gripe with the WB and the latest Harry film. Following advice from someone who commented on my previous blog, I logged onto Flixster support and opened a trouble-ticket. Within an hour I received this response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=538&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warner Brothers, Harry Potter 7 part 2 and UltraViolet &#8211; #Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty easy-going, mostly.  I pay for things that I want and/or need, I expect value for my dollar(s), and I get angry when I feel as if I have been cheated. Or lied to. Or both. In this case, I am pretty damned angry. Like many of Jo Rowling&#8217;s fans, I have eagerly anticipated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=532&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to do&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. Here I am, plotting and writing and struggling, and I realize that what I have outlined for this next book is complete and utter rubbish. Really, I had a *great* idea. Great. Super great. Even had some really exciting race scenes, some good dynamic stuff, etc&#8230; Then, the back surgery happened and I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=531&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fans and Fan Mail&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably pretentious to say that I get fanmail, per se. I do get some comments on Facebook for my writing, mostly about my book, Open Water, but most of the &#8220;fan mail&#8221; I get right now relates to my fan fiction. Yes, I still write it. Yes, it&#8217;s hetero fanfic, I&#8217;ve never really written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=527&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the Discoveries Continue&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me first preface this by saying, I really can stop anytime I want. I am not addicted to ancestry.com. Really. I&#8217;m not. Much. Okay, with that disclaimer aside, let me just share more fun discoveries. Check this out! Alice Atwood (1574 &#8211; 1621) is your 11th great grandmother Richard Gale (1618 &#8211; 1679) Son [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=518&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on Southwest Airlines.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame on Southwest airlines. My email to Southwest. Feel free to copy and send to them as well: You kicked a woman off of a flight for kissing her partner? What the hell is wrong with Southwest? &#8220;A flight attendant had told Hailey that Southwest &#8220;was a &#8216;family&#8217; airline and kissing was not ok&#8221;, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4244683&amp;post=516&amp;subd=polsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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