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		<title>Unlock your Huawei E160</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/09/29/unlock-your-huawei-e160</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use a Safaricom-branded Huawei E160 USB modem to connect to the Internet over 3G from my apartment in Westlands. It works great but Safaricom has locked the device so it only works on their network (an anti-consumer move they probably learned from the likes of AT&#38;T). We have four different mobile providers in Kenya, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast from the past</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/31/blast-from-the-past</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hilarious is this? I found these old badges of mine while looking through boxes in my mom&#8217;s garage: 2002 2005 2010 &#160; The first picture was taken in 2002 when I was a freshman at CSU, Chico. That badge was old and cracked by the time I finished working at the User Services department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling the truth</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/28/telling-the-truth</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a terrible feeling to get caught in a lie. Today I told a small fib, then was glad I hadn&#8217;t flat out lied when the lady ended up sort of calling my bluff. I was in San Marcos with a few hours to kill in between meeting some friends, and decided to go walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump your own gas!</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/23/pump-your-own-gas</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been visiting the USA for a few weeks now. Home is San Diego, California, but my twin sister Randi lives in Portland, Oregon. I have a bunch of old friends strewn along the California coast, so it seemed like a good idea to drive up to Oregon instead of flying. California and Oregon are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego safari</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/14/san-diego-safari</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cracked up this morning when I heard on the news that San Diego Zoo&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Animal Park&#8221; is going to change its name to the San Diego Zoo &#8220;Safari Park.&#8221; It&#8217;s hilarious to me because in Swahili a &#8220;safari&#8221; is a journey; sure, driving around looking at animals is technically a journey, but really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrounded by idiots</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/13/surrounded-by-idiots</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom&#8217;s husband was telling me the other day how, sometimes, he feels like he&#8217;s surrounded by idiots. I felt the same way today when, as I was merging onto the freeway, some guy cut in front of me. After he swerved over from the &#8220;going straight&#8221; lane, he slowed down to yield to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sita Sings the Blues</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/05/28/sita-sings-the-blues</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/05/28/sita-sings-the-blues#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 21:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone seen the movie Sita Sings the Blues? It&#8217;s an animated full-length movie which has some interesting ideas behind it; a note from the artist on the official website: I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other VSO bloggers</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/16/other-vso-bloggers</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/16/other-vso-bloggers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed a new VSO blog aggregator, VSO Journals. It&#8217;s not an official VSO venture, though word has it they&#8217;re working on their own version as well. I think I read somewhere that the dude who started it was a VSO volunteer once, but I can&#8217;t remember where I saw it. Anyways, the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lethal Dose of Valium For Dogs</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/lethal-dose-of-valium-for-dogs</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/lethal-dose-of-valium-for-dogs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alaninkenya.org/?p=674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spam on the Internet is a reality. It&#8217;s all automated these days; computers crawl the net looking for places to post their garbage. Most of it is related to drugs. You usually see it in your e-mail or in the comments section of some blog articles you happen upon. I get a bit of spam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FFmpeg, Linux, 3gp, Nokia, and you!</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/27/ffmpeg-linux-3gp-nokia-and-you</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/27/ffmpeg-linux-3gp-nokia-and-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a relatively-new Nokia phone it should be able to play videos, which is totally sweet. Any video that you can play on the computer can be converted to a format that your phone can play; videos from YouTube, VCD, SVCD, DVD, XviD, etc. All you need is FFmpeg (I use GNU/Linux, but [...]]]></description>
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