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	<title>Mark Turansky</title>
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	<description>Business, software, and gardening.  That&#039;s all.</description>
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		<title>Red Pen and Comments in the Margin for your UI</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/219</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember how your High School English teacher graded your papers?  Mine all used red pen and circled things and wrote comments in the margin.  I still do this today when I write something important.  I print a copy, grab a red pen, and turn into a ruthless editor on the lookout for just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s simple math</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/215</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gardening and edible landscaping serves up some incredible meals.
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		<title>How to send asynchronous requests in PHP</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/205</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code Hints]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to make asynchronous calls in PHP with just a little bit of HTTP header knowledge and some library code around PHP sockets.
This technique is useful when posting requests to your own server for bits of logic you&#8217;d like to run in the background.  If you don&#8217;t control the endpoint, you might not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few rules of business and travel</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/194</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business Rule #17432: When travelling on business, work!  There are no interruptions.  There are no kids demanding attention.  It is quiet and it&#8217;s the perfect time to focus.  There is no one to answer to about anything, so open the laptop, turn off the TV (why it is even on?), and get to work.
Business Rule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never let a consultant handle your core business</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/192</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From I, Cringley:
In Minneapolis, Best Buy is known as a body shop.  While they have something like 1000 IT workers, most of them are temporary contractors.  They come and go.  The number of IT people who are Best Buy employees is very small.  Too few to effectively set direction or do things well.  Best Buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braintree&#8217;s customer support is 1st class</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/189</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Braintree &#8212; an online payments processor &#8212; aims to have a developer-friendly API for integration and touts excellent customer service as one of their strengths.
I have been on the phone with these guys several times this week as I integrate our subscriptions at GreenWizard more tightly with Braintree for better reporting.  Every interaction with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get the latest subversion revision number with Bash</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/187</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code Hints]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s  a quick one-liner you can use in Bash to get the latest subversion revision number from your present working directory:
sed -n '4p' .svn/entries
Use backticks to assign it to a local variable you can use when making a build (say, a zip archive of a website or other type of artifact you might want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I just want to get started&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/185</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just want to get started.&#8221;   How commonly uttered is this phrase in the life of a new project?
My wife is tiling our bathroom and she&#8217;s carefully laying out tiles, measuring, preparing to make cuts that accommodate the cabinets, and various other tasks that are required before anyone can lay a single tile on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make your own seedling pots from newspaper</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/183</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This How-To article shows how you can make your own seedling starter pots from newspaper!  Very cool idea.  My plastic trays are getting crumpled from continuous reuse and buying new peet pots is expensive.  I&#8217;m going to try using newspaper as described in the article.  Cheap new pots in perptuity!
http://whipup.net/2007/05/21/raising-seedlings-using-recycled-newspaper/
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		<title>Signs of life</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/182</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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Spring is officially here and the growing season has begun!  I have high hopes for these pole bean sprouts.
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		<title>Broccoli in December</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/168</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
South Carolina weather is good for an extended growing season.   Here is my broccoli after Christmas. 
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		<title>A $9,000 water bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/150</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/150#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I have a dollar to blow on a bottle of water, I buy Perrier!&#8221; quipped Robin Williams in his late &#8217;70s stand-up days.
It killed.  The audience howled at Williams&#8217; derision of paying a lot of money for something we get nearly for free from the tap, especially when the EPA does a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Roof &#8212; Steven Chu is right!</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/149</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy Secretary Steven Chu has advocated painting roofs white as a cost saving measure that also reduces the impact of climate change.  The theory is that more heat would be reflected, thereby lowering a building&#8217;s cooling costs, which in turn reduces greenhouse gas emissions because we&#8217;re using less power to cool the building.
An article (blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending local</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/147</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/147#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[$45 of every $100 dollars spent at local businesses stays in circulation in the local economy.  The money is spent on local salaries, payments to other merchants, and so on.  A big chain, on the other hand, only keeps $13 in local circulation.  This is the finding of an economic study done in Austin, TX.
Buying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small organic farms on the rise</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/146</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/146#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a Fortune magazine article about a farming youth movement and how young people are starting organic farms and businesses.   I find the article timely considering I just wrote an article of my own advocating backyard organic gardens.
You can read the Fortune article here:
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0907/gallery.farmers_organic_local_young.fortune/
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		<title>Declassified imagery graphically shows global warming in action</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/144</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/144#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama declassified satellite imagery that graphically shows the effect of global warming.  The imagery was previously kept classified by the Bush administration.
Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/26/climate-change-obama-administration
View the images:
http://gfl.usgs.gov/Publications.shtml
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		<title>Compost Toilets the &#8220;in&#8221; thing</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/142</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And I thought writing about composting in a Victory Garden was a good thing to do, but I&#8217;ve been easily bested by people in Fiji who created composting toilets because they found their sewage was seeping into the sea and affecting their coral reefs.
The toilets separate liquids and solids, with the liquids becoming a fertilizer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use a classpath resource or kill your application&#8217;s portability</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/141</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code Hints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HOW TO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the secret way to kill your application&#8217;s portability &#8212; and by portable, I mean across different computers, let alone operating systems:  Hardcode all your paths.
That&#8217;s it.  That very quickly kills portability.  It&#8217;s easy to accomplish, too.  Simply refer to all your configuration files, for example, by fully qualified pathname, like this:

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System.setProperty&#40;&#34;com.yourcorp.refdata.config.filename&#34;,
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		<title>Drivin&#8217; like Gandhi</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/140</link>
		<comments>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/140#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Americans drive 3 trillion miles annually?  We drove 250 billion miles just in April &#8216;09.  Pretty amazing.
The article Drive Like Gandhi shows how much we could save nearly 700 million barrels of oil and $34 billion by applying a few simple, conservative, and thrifty tips.
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		<title>5 ways to help your new hire</title>
		<link>http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/139</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Turansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s said that some of the most stressful things you can do in your life are move, have a kid, get married, and start a new job.  It&#8217;s all true, too, but this essay focuses on starting a new job because I&#8217;ve just started one.
All new employees are vulnerable, regardless of rank or position.  The [...]]]></description>
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