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		<title>Oh NO You&#8217;re Not!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following or something like it has been appearing on the Windows 7 blog and website all day: Update on Windows 7 Beta Availability from The Windows Blog by Brandon LeBlanc Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Cow &#8211; Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start blogging here again with short posts, while putting my main blogging effort in at newmediatheory.net.Yes, former readers I will opine politically, but not this time. That said, I&#8217;ve been using Windows 7 since last night. I&#8217;m stunned at how good it is so far. It is beginning to show real integration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Oz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a three month self imposed silence I&#8217;m back in Australia determined to stop long boring posts. Today at the bookstore I noticed this title: Get Pregnant Faster It made my day.]]></description>
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		<title>Lookers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking in West Palm Beach in a mixed commerical district: big Winn-Dixie grocrery store, rail road tracks, freeway overpasses. Suddenly two good looking women are just to my right in front of a shop. One white, one black talking to each other. I must be hanving a good day because they look extra special nice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chez Lives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a new post up over at newmediatheory.net about Chez Pazienza who got fired by CNN for blogging! Otherwise Yankeewombat remains on vacation in Florida enjoying his grand kids and family.]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been on the road and hors de combat. The wireless at my son Julian&#8217;s in West Palm Beach works a treat so Yankeewombat is back. First stop was Hong Kong. Here is a brief impression: Hong Kong, which is now part of the People&#8217;s Republic of China, is much more like New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a computer in the mid eighties at the Golden Centre in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. It is a bunch of small shops &#8211; stalls really &#8211; on the second floor of an old building in Fuk Wa Street. If memory serves the computer I bought was an early IBM Clone with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yankeewombat.com/?p=679</link>
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		<title>Obama II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama is still behind nationally but I am not sure that he is beaten. He looks like the future of the Democratic party to me and Hillary looks like the past. Her husband isn&#8217;t helping in that regard either. Jay Cost the HorseRace Blogger, the best analyst of polls I have ever encountered, isn&#8217;t calling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yankeewombat.com/?p=677</link>
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		<title>Counterknowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of a friendly exchange on the subject of conspiracy theory or &#8216;counterknowledge&#8217; between Richard Landes and ShrinkWrapped which was started by Landes&#8217; review of Counterknowledge by Damien Thompson there is the following commentary by Landes on the final paragraph of Shrinkwrapped&#8217;s post: (I&#8217;ve labeled who said what for clarity. Both quotes are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yankeewombat.com/?p=676</link>
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		<title>Political Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a different approach to assessing the situation in Iraq. It is a small part of a larger assessment of political risk around the world by Ian Bremmer entitled A Political-risk Outlook for 2008. He is a political scientist who makes his living advising Wall Street clients specifically on the political risk aspect of [...]]]></description>
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