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	                    	<title>Louie Speaks!</title> 
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	                	<title>Oh. Yeah. Um. Guess I should post more...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/50</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Wow. I did not post a single entry for October. The last entry was from September. Hoo-wah. That&#39;s bad...

So, today's topic: Breakfast!

Q: What is your favorite breakfast?
A: Omelets! Especially Western and Farmer&#39;s omelets.

Q: Side]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A change be a&#39;coming...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/49</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of dev work on GeeksNeverSleep.com, and have discovered some nice tricks I didn&#39;t know before. Therefore, in the coming weeks I will be slowly rebuilding each of the pages on LouieSpeaks! to take advantage of this new knowle]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Round and round I go...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/48</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[ Well, today was certainly interesting. I think I spent all of about 10 minutes in the computer lab. The other 7 hours and change I spent running up and down stairs, helping my school's IT department re-image the various PCs we have scattered around ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>When it rains, it pours...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/47</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Talk about too much of a good thing...

I've been trying to get another job for quite some now, and have been rather unsuccessful. After a while, you just kind of give up, right?

Well, all of a sudden, my fortunes seem to have been reversed. I h]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Here I go again, on my own...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/46</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Going down the only road I've ever known.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.
I've made up my mind, ain&#39;t wasting no more time...

Here I go again...

:)                      ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Louie's Pet Peeve #6,433,556</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/45</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Louie hates stinky people. So do I. I mean, come on! It takes as little as five minutes to bathe in the morning. A little shampoo here, a little soap there, an' viola! No stink!


It probably doesn't help that I have fairly sensitive sinuses. I've]]></description> 
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	                	<title>How to NOT be a Fool...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/44</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Seeing as I work in a computer lab, and interact with students all day, it should come as no surprise that I have developed some opinions about the state of our various educational systems. And truth be told, not many of my opinions are favorable...]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Okay, so I lied...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/43</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Well, I said I would post more, but it appears that was an unintentional fib. I kinda got a little distracted. I've been working on a website that I'm practically giving away. And... I figured out how to get AOE II to run on Vista without any problem]]></description> 
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	                	<title>My apologies...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/42</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Wow. A little over two weeks. That's how long it has been since I last posted...

In my defense, I've had two things working against me:

1) I had a school project that took way more attention than I thought it would.
2) I have been working on a]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A Ship Without a Sail, I Am...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/41</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Ow.

That sound you just heard? It was me running smack into a wall of ignorance. Luckily for me, it was a personal faux pass               , and not something glaringly obvious to anyone who knows me...

So, what was this great transgression, yo]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Something Wicked, This Way Comes...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/40</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Not really. Caught your attention, though, didn't it?

:)

So, as you may or may not have read before, I maintain another site, called geekneversleep.com, that I've been renovating and upgrading lately. I've been trying to finally get around to f]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Hey now, you're an All-Star...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/39</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Get your game on, go play...

Uh, where was I?

Oh, yeah.

I've been trying to decide whether the lack of error messages in my inbox from this site is a good sign, or if it means the bots have simply gotten bored with prowling my site...

Hmm]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Four Unwanted Characters = Angry Louie...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/38</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[So...

I've been reworking my original site, GeeksNeverSleep.com. I hacked up the page structure in such a way that I now have a very modular website. I can pretty much plug and chug, as we programmers like to say, and have a new page in less than ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Selling out to The Man...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/37</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Well, kiddies, prepare to be heart-broken. I, Louie, have just sold out.

Yep.

Signed up for a Technorati account. Got this here blog claimed, so maybe I might get a hit here and there from random web strollers.               

I would have pr]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Abort! Abort! Abort!</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/35</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Well, I tried it for a while, but in the end, I decided I wasn't a super-big fan of Drupal. I'm something of a control freak when it comes to geeky stuff, so having Drupal decide how I was doing stuff got to be kind of annoying.


That, and I like]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A pretty butterfly, it will be...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/34</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Yee-haw!

Just started the conversion of my sister site, GeeksNeverSleep.com, to Drupal. So far, have had a few kinks, but the install seems to have gone well. Even managed to apply an OK theme, until I have the time to develop a proper one.

Got]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Ah. Sweet, sweet freedom...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/33</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Huzzah! As of today, this horrible semester is over (at least, my community college classes are done). I don't think I've ever looked forward to the end of a semester as much as this one, and that includes high school.

I think I mentioned it befor]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Holy rusted metal!</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/32</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[And so goes the only worthwhile quote in the movie, "Batman and Robin."

Which has nothing to do with this post, but it popped into my head, so I figure, "what the hell, throw it in there!"

:)

Anyway...

So I have now experienced the closes]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Change is in the air...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/31</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[For those who aren't aware, I also maintain another website, called "GeeksNeverSleep.com". I made that site to try and relate some of the technical knowledge I have gained over the last few years.

Well, I'm about to rebuild that site, so I may not]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A waste, a waste. Sigh. What a waste...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/30</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Well, I am officially writing off this semester as a bust, regardless of what my GPA winds up being. It's been one frustration after another, some of it my fault, some perhaps aided by stupidity on the part of those I must interact with...

I suppo]]></description> 
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	                	<title>For a Heated Discussion, Just Add...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/29</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Religion!

I know. Sounds odd, right? But it's also true. Some of the most interesting conversations I've ever had started with someone either accidentally or purposefully making some sort of blanket statement that only the "righteous" can make.
]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A glimmer of hope...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/28</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[One of my coworkers in the computer lab at the school I attend (whew!) is a developer at a local technology-consulting firm. I've talked code with him on numerous occasions. I'd say we get along pretty well.

Well, it happened a while back that he ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>A Quest, I have undertaken...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/27</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[I hang around a lot at a neat little site called IconBuffet. I love the place. I've met many, many nice, intelligent people. It's not unusual to have a totally random, pointless conversation, leave for a few days, and resume it like it was two minute]]></description> 
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	                	<title>What exactly is a geek? Hmm...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/26</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Here's what whatis.com says:

In computers and the Internet, a geek is a person who is inordinately dedicated to and involved with technology.


And that's me to a tee, folks. If it's digital in any way, I'm drooling over it. And thinking about ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Is less, more? Hmm...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/25</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[That's a question I have to keep asking myself as I build this web log. How much is too much, when it comes to adding fancy effects or pretty images? I want my site to be decently usable across the widest range of connection speeds possible, so I hav]]></description> 
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	                	<title>I Missed The Party</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/23</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[I think it would be fun to go to one of the big geek-fests that are held every so often. There is one going on now in Austin, Texas and it seems everyone is there and blogging/twittering about it. Actually I would have liked to got the Drupalcon earl]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Vacation? What's that?</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/22</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[So, I'm on spring break from college, right? For most people, that means a chance to get away from class work, their job, maybe even friends and family. A little me time, if you will.

Me? Nope...

I go to a community college AND a university. It]]></description> 
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	                	<title>It's been one of those days...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/21</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[So, for one reason or another, I didn't have to be somewhere today, for once. I had originally planned on getting my far-too-long hair cropped back to it's proper length. But, instead, I spent the entire day being a lazy S.O.B...

In a way, I don't]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Necessity and Invention...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/20</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[So, I created a nice shiny new background image for my header (doesn't it look purty?) just now. It has a nice "pseudo" glass look to it.

Now, you ask some people how they make something like that, they start listing all these steps they went thro]]></description> 
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	                	<title>The more things change...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/19</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[I've decided to move my sister site to a new domain, which will also allow me to re-order this domain. What that means: some oddities may pop up here and there as I move files around, fix links, and all the other nice stuff associated with domain mig]]></description> 
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	                	<title>These snozberries taste like snozberries...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/18</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Oye vey. You know you're tired when everything starts to take on that nice "nimbus" glow. You know, your peripheral vision gets a little cloudy, seems like it takes a lot of effort to make you eyes focus on anything in front of you....

Yep, that's]]></description> 
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	                	<title>Guest Blogging</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/3</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Hello! I have been involved with the testing of this new blogging platform from the start, and now I am pleased to fill in as guest blogger.

This blog gets more fully featured every day. There are still a few things to be worked out, my favorites ]]></description> 
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	                	<title>!@#$% snow day...</title> 
	                	<link>http://louiespeaks.com/view-blog-entry/2</link> 
	                	<description><![CDATA[Strange, how when you're a kid, you love snow days. Bring 'em on!, you say.

Then you grow up. And have to pay to go to school. Now, snow days are irritating. I mean, I paid good money to sit in that there classroom, and you ain't dragging me out o]]></description> 
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