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	<link>http://www.onpaws.com</link>
	<description>traveling at the speed of life</description>
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		<title>Note on building your own RAID5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAID5, generally speaking, is a bad idea. Unless you have some very specific needs, RAID5 increases complexity, is more prone to hardware failure and administration errors, and does not automatically back itself up. If two RAID5 member drives fail at the same time, *all* your data is SOL. Individual drives, such as a bunch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/03/note-on-building-your-own-raid5/</link>
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		<title>On Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spot on zinger by Gruber:
I.e. if you think people using iPhone OS devices are an important segment of your intended audience, you can no longer build a Flash-dependent web site. (And if you don’t think people using iPhone OS devices are an important segment of your intended audience, you’re probably wrong.)
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		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/on-flash/</link>
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		<title>Hat tip to musicians in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[50 years ago, if an aspiring Joe Rockstar wanted to step up from recording his garage band to mastering his first demo, he&#8217;d soon be thwarted by the cost of time with specialized expensive studio hardware like mixers, multitrack recorders, and (down the line) audio effects like EQs, delays, reverb, and synthesizers. The 90s opened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/musicians-hat-tip/</link>
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		<title>Favicon update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To keep your bookmarks and RSS feed favicons looking shiny, I changed the onpaws.com favicon again. I was getting tired of the crusty current one which I made on a whim one day:

Passable at 64&#215;64, but it always looked crummy at the more commonly seen 16&#215;16:

After becoming intimately reacquainted with the various ways to disable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/favicon-update/</link>
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		<title>Aperture 3 now up to date with&#8230;iPhoto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What took them so long?
When I got my MacBook Pro in 2006 it was heavily marketed with Aperture, Apple&#8217;s new pro photo management app. Yesterday I was happy to see Aperture get a long-overdue update to version 3, which is welcome, but hardly seems to do more than bring it to feature parity with last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/aperture-3/</link>
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		<title>Finale 2010 fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I either must really, really not be the target audience, or Finale 2010 for Mac is underwhelming to the point of sucking. Last week was my first time using Finale since 2003 in music class, and my install lasted about 10 minutes before going straight to the trash.
It feels like a Microsoft product of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/finale-2010-fail/</link>
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		<title>Minimalism and the site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Certain things that once seemed cool when the blogging world was nascent I now consider trite unnecessary clutter.
Therefore, as of today:
Blogroll: gone.
Tag cloud: gone.
Post calendar: gone.
When you&#8217;ve got search, who uses a tag cloud? Or when you&#8217;ve got archives, who cares about a post calendar? And a blogroll seems spammy. Better replaced by posts linking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/02/minimalism-and-the-site/</link>
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		<title>iPad announcement sidenotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Despite buying Placebase in October 2009 the iPad still uses Google Maps. I was hoping we wouldn&#8217;t have to wait until June to see what that brings to the table.
Similarly to the original iPhone&#8217;s ugly chin, 3G connectivity requires an ugly plastic window that even wraps around to the front. Look for the 3G picture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/01/ipad-announcement-sidenotes/</link>
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		<title>MIDI keyboard in a pinch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While typically people work in a studio to accomplish most kinds of creative production, inspiration can certainly arrive at less than opportune times. In the case of music making, my two favorite DAWs (Logic and Ableton Live) both offer onscreen keyboards that simulate a real MIDI keyboard. Obviously you sacrifice velocity sensitivity, but this can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2010/01/midi-keyboard-in-a-pinch/</link>
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		<title>Breathing fiberglass, round two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I installed some Cat5e cable throughout the house (that&#8217;s Ethernet cable for you non-network types). Last time it was for three upstairs rooms, and it went pretty well despite the sweltering heat in the attic.
Last week I finished installing another outlet in the den. This one was harder since the cable ran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onpaws.com/2009/12/breathing-fiberglass-round-two/</link>
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