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		<title>Security Questions considered harmful</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2010/05/24/security-questions-considered-harmful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 11:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many online services allow, or even worse, require, the so called &#034;Security Question&#034;. It is a question/answer you can enter in case you ever forget your password or can&#039;t access your account for some reason. In my opinion, security questions are an incredibly bad idea, from a security perspective. The usual security questions are things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#039;m ditching Chrome because of the http:// stripping.</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2010/04/16/im-ditching-chrome-because-of-the-http-stripping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New development builds, and apparently the Beta build of Chrome for the Mac, strip the &#039;http://&#039; part from the URL input field. Since I run Chromium for Linux, which uses nightly builds of Chrome, I am already affected by this retarded decision. For this reason I will no longer be using Chrome, nor will I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game review: Midnightclub Los Angeles (SUCKS)</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/07/23/game-review-midnightclub-los-angeles-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m not normally into the game reviewing thing, but I&#039;ll make an exception for Midnightclub Los Angeles because it is, without a single doubt, the worst &#039;racing&#039; (and I use the word &#039;racing&#039; loosely here) game I have ever wasted money on. The story: None. But that&#039;s okay. It&#039;s a racing game, it doesn&#039;t require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most annoying thing about email&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/07/07/the-most-annoying-thing-about-email/</link>
		<comments>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/07/07/the-most-annoying-thing-about-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/?p=4394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The most annoying thing about email&#8230; When someone sends you an email, and not five minutes later proceeds to call you up or visit you to ask if you&#039;ve already read their e-mail and what your response is gonna be. Then makes you explain your entire response and says &#034;send me an email about that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gift certificates</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/05/17/gift-certificates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 15:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/?p=4374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t understand gift certificates. I mean, the idea is quite good: A piece of paper that represents a certain value, and which you can then trade for goods of some kind. Much better than dragging all that gold around all the time. So in that regard, gift certificates are an awesome idea. Except that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu sucks!</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/04/19/ubuntu-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be real pleased with Ubuntu, because it got a couple of things right that Debian didn&#039;t. But I&#039;ve upgraded my Ubuntu install three times now, and every time I upgraded everything broke. The last time I upgraded, everything even remotely having anything to do with sound broke. This was because the geniuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance optimization: The first thing to do</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/04/19/performance-optimization-the-first-thing-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of years, I&#039;ve done a lot of performance optimization. I&#039;ve optimized raw C, Python and PHP code. I&#039;ve optimized databases: tweaked settings, memory usage, caches, SQL code, the query analyzer, hardware and indexes. I&#039;ve optimized templates for disk I/O, compilation and rendering. I&#039;ve optimize various caches and all kinds of other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Unit testing is not (generally) useful</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/02/10/re-unit-testing-is-not-generally-useful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2009/02/10/re-unit-testing-is-not-generally-useful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/?p=4128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a post up on Bill Moorier&#039;s blog about the usefulness of Unit Testing. In it, he writes the following, which largely sums up his post: The metric I, and others I know, have used to judge unit testing is: does it find bugs? The answer has been no. For the majority of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustration-Free Packaging</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2008/11/04/frustration-free-packaging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/?p=4116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has a Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging initiative: The Frustration-Free Package (on the left) is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It&#039;s designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rant: Dicts that are not dicts</title>
		<link>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2008/08/03/rant-dicts-that-are-not-dicts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2008/08/03/rant-dicts-that-are-not-dicts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/?p=4065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s something I have to get off my chest. I HATE it when things in Python pretend to be something they are not. I often use IPython to introspect things so I know how to use them. Lately, I&#039;ve been running into more and more libraries which return things that pretend to be one thing, [...]]]></description>
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