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		<title>Making Light&#8217;s Commonplaces</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/12/04/making-lights-commonplaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonplaces from Making Light. Please read them all. &#8220;We are prophets of a future not our own.&#8221; (Oscar Romero) &#8220;Peace means something different from &#8216;not fighting&#8217;. Those aren&#8217;t peace advocates, they&#8217;re &#8216;stop fighting&#8217; advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.&#8221; (Jo Walton) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange Horizons Fiction: Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson.]]></description>
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		<title>This French Life.com</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2006/11/26/this-french-lifecom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English journalist Craig McGinty blogs about life in France at This French Life. Ironically, I found This French Life not while looking up travel information. No, it came up while while looking for advice on septic tank maintenance, and how nice that he&#8217;s posted information about caring for them in France, complete with local product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What not to do in France</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2006/11/10/what-not-to-do-in-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behave, baby. Wikipedia&#8217;s list of French faux pas. Here&#8217;s one: &#8220;Like in many languages featuring a T-V distinction, addressing people with the familiar &#8220;tu&#8221; (like in Middle English thou) when they should be addressed with &#8220;vous&#8221; (you) is seen as derogatory, insulting, or even aggressive. Conversely, addressing familiars with &#8220;vous&#8221; is considered snobbish and introduces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2006/10/03/tom-waits-on-his-cherished-albums-of-all-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an old link I should have posted ages ago, from the UK&#8217;s Observer Monthy Music (&#8220;OMM&#8221;): Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time: &#8216;It&#8217;s perfect madness&#8217; In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSI Language Courses</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2006/09/18/fsi-language-courses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice find, this: Language Courses from the U.S. Foreign Service, including text and audio files free for the download; apparently in the public domain, having been produced with American taxpayer dollars.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Somewhat&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words to avoid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First in this category, and first of the new year, of words to avoid: somewhat. After reading around the web, looking for guides to implement a GTD system, I kept finding this word, and realized it&#8217;s indistinct, overly cautious, and a sign of authors backing off their own opinions. I also realized I&#8217;ve used it [...]]]></description>
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