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	<title>Ardent Meridian &#187; Ian</title>
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	<description>... incoherent rambletastic techno-babble ...</description>
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		<title>A Week in the Life of Three Operating Systems &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/09/17/a-week-in-the-life-of-three-operating-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s been two and a half months since I started setting up my Linux environment for this project and in that time I needed to focus on actual productive work, rather than evaluating operating systems.&#160; So in a few days I will return to that task. The Linux setup sits on its dedicated drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week in the Life of Three Operating Systems: Setup &#8211; Linux &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/30/a-week-in-the-life-of-three-operating-systems-setup-linux-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I began my installation of Linux for my operating system evaluation experiment.&#160; For my non-desktop needs I typically use RedHat, though it is not something I would find especially desirable&#160; as a desktop environment. For this experiment I decided to give Ubuntu 9.04 a try.&#160; I have used a variety of other Linux [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games Development: &#8220;Ideas&#8221; People &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/28/games-development-ideas-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing code, in one form or another, for over 30 years.&#160; I’ve built games at a hobby level, business and entertainment software at a commercial/shrink-wrapped level, and had my hand in projects that have, individually, touched almost half a billion people. In short, I know my craft. During that time, across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 3GS Battery Life</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/25/iphone-3gs-battery-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last year about the battery life of the iPhone 3G, following on from lots of forum chat about perceived issues with it.&#160; At the time I maintained those issues were down to people playing with their phones more as they were new and/or that those people were new to Smart Phones and simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week in the Life of Three Operating Systems: Setup &#8211; Vista &amp; OS X</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/22/a-week-in-the-life-of-three-operating-systems-setup-vista-os-x/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/22/a-week-in-the-life-of-three-operating-systems-setup-vista-os-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have completed the setup of the first two systems, specifically my primary Vista x64 instance and the OS X build.&#160; Rather than taking my existing configurations for these systems, I started from scratch with bare drives. This was partly out of a desire to keep things pure, and also because my primary Vista installation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week in the Life of Three Operating Systems: An Experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/12/a-week-in-the-life-of-three-operating-systems-an-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a professional software engineer/architect I make frequent use of all three of today’s primary PC operating systems – Windows, OS X and Linux on a regular basis. To this point, each of them has fulfilled a specific role, or been required for a particular purpose.&#160; And, while I do categorize and view them differently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Union vs. Microsoft on IE &#8211; Be Careful What You Wish For.</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/11/european-union-vs-microsoft-on-ie-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technologists and, I expect, most geeks in general, cannot have escaped the recent rumblings in the European Union’s anti-trust proceedings around Microsoft and the “bundling” of Internet Explorer with Windows. There has been plenty of discussion about forcing Microsoft to remove Internet Explorer from Windows entirely for Windows 7. How this is good for consumers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nintendo DSi, and the &#8220;Official Nintendo Seal&#8221; &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/07/nintendo-dsi-and-the-official-nintendo-seal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/07/nintendo-dsi-and-the-official-nintendo-seal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been successfully resisting the, latent, urge to buy a Nintendo DSi, since its original announcement.&#160; After the latest E3 I found myself with a bad case of “must buy something”.&#160; And so a DSi it was. I bought mine at CostCo, mostly on account of me never wanting to give GameStop another penny, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Sell Music, Why Not Let Me Actually Buy It?</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/02/if-you-sell-music-why-not-let-me-actually-buy-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/06/02/if-you-sell-music-why-not-let-me-actually-buy-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love music.&#160; I buy music.&#160; A lot of music.&#160; I do not have a single pirated song in my entire collection which, even in compressed form, spans several large hard disks. So it is becoming increasingly frustrating trying to buy the single track that an artist has that I am interested in and finding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Large Mallet to the Zune &#8220;Experience&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/05/13/taking-a-large-mallet-to-the-zune-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ardentmeridian.com/blog/2009/05/13/taking-a-large-mallet-to-the-zune-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an absolute cluster-fuck. Re-subscribing to ZunePass has been a epic mistake.&#160; Well, okay, a $15 mistake.&#160; Not really epic considering I drive an Aston Martin, which drinks gas to the tune of $0.50/mile at full chat, but still, $15 simply pissed away. I really enjoyed my 1.0 Zune device on the original Zune software.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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