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		<title>There&#8217;s No Such Thing As &#8220;Luck&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/theres-no-such-thing-as-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is luck? Does it even exist? It depends on your definition.
Here&#8217;s mine: &#8220;luck&#8221; is a mysterious force that brings good things to people who have it. It doesn&#8217;t exist.
What does exist is chance. Chance is random coincidences.
&#8220;Lucky&#8221; people are really just people who put themselves in a position to benefit from chance.
Nobody ever won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Hoops</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/too-many-hoops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Issues/Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rich schefren]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted a comment on Rich Schefren&#8217;s blog. That triggered an automated email thanking me for the comment and linking to a few useful resources. The email had backslashes before all the quote marks and apostophes. I sent an email in response pointing out the problem and briefly suggesting possible causes. I got an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimizing Case Sensitive Queries in MySQL</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/optimizing-case-sensitive-queries-in-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/optimizing-case-sensitive-queries-in-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I ran into a situation where I needed to do case sensitive queries in MySQL. With a little Googling, I discovered that the keyword &#8220;binary&#8221; makes that possible, like this:
select foo_field from foo_table where binary foo_key="foo value"
So I tried it out and it worked, but when querying a table with over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Charter, Hello Scrap Metal</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/goodbye-charter-hello-scrap-metal/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/goodbye-charter-hello-scrap-metal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antenna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dtv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet usa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided it was time to cut our internet bill by switching away from Charter to a local wireless internet service provider named Internet USA.  I figured it was a good time to reconsider our cable TV package too &#8212; we&#8217;d discussed switching to DirecTV in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the Crystal Kingdom, Dora. Save the US Economy!</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/forget-the-crystal-kingdom-dora-save-the-us-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/forget-the-crystal-kingdom-dora-save-the-us-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues/Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dora the explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited night has come. My daughter is watching the new Dora the Explorer move, &#8220;Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom&#8221;. Here&#8217;s my outline for a better Dora movie.
Dora and Boots go to withdraw money from the ATM, only to find that their bank has failed. During the transition to FDIC control, the ATM is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of CaRP Evolution</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-history-of-carp-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/the-history-of-carp-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CaRP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carp evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php rss parser]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just posted a history of the development of CaRP Evolution, running from the creation of my first free PHP RSS parser up through the additions of CaRP Koi and Evolution, and the version 4 upgrade, with a very small hint at the future (it&#8217;s getting renamed, but the new name isn&#8217;t going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWeber Bugs Again</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/aweber-bugs-again/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/aweber-bugs-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issues/Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aweber]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they&#8217;ve got a few really irritating problems. Here&#8217;s my latest gripe.
About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my autoresponder sequences &#8212; they weren&#8217;t converting, so I axed &#8216;em.
AWeber keeps track of the last follow-up message that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Put the Loonerati in Charge of the Country?</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/who-put-the-loonerati-in-charge-of-the-country/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/who-put-the-loonerati-in-charge-of-the-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Issues/Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[two party system]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, the Washington Post referred to Rush Limbaugh as the new Minority Leader. After Limbaugh repeatedly expressed the hope that Obama would fail and Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele criticized him for it, Steele had to apologize to Limbaugh.
Are you kidding me?
Let me see if I&#8217;ve got this right. We&#8217;re supposed to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Google Reader Woo Me Away From NetNewsWire?</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/can-google-reader-woo-me-away-from-netnewswire/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/can-google-reader-woo-me-away-from-netnewswire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atom/RSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netnewswire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Google Reader debuted, there was no question &#8212; it was as bad as all the other web-based feed readers. No way was I going to dump NetNewWire for it.
A few days ago, somebody (someone I follow on Twitter, I think &#8212; perhaps Michel Fortin?) commented about how they use Google Reader, so I gave [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Browser &amp; Screen Resolution Trends</title>
		<link>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/browser-screen-resolution-trends/</link>
		<comments>http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/browser-screen-resolution-trends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antone Roundy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web browser stats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antone.geckotribe.com/alpha-gecko/?p=614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise!

Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost exactly the same as this.

As recently as January, I was still getting enough visitors at 800&#215;600 [...]]]></description>
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