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		<title>Maintenance, our human flaw and a dreamed of plugin</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/26/maintenance-our-human-flaw-and-a-dreamed-of-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080; &#1085;&#1072; &#1089;&#1074;&#1077;&#1090;&#1094;&#1080; &#8220;Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.&#8221; &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut Today has driven home to me Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s quote regarding maintenance. He is right. I&#8217;m guilty of that flaw too. Most of us are. We want to get on to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You need poetry in your posts</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/24/your-need-poetry-in-your-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=4150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What the world really needs is poetry in posts. Seriously. Keep in mind, when we use the word poetry we usually mean it in one of two ways. There is the very technical use when we are talking about something like a Shakespearean sonnet. But there is also the much more common use, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The editor steps in again</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/02/21/the-editor-steps-in-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been unusually quiet at Writelife. You can blame the editor for that. I have three posts unpublished because the editor has nixed them. Yes, the editor is me. The editor is a self-editor. What was wrong with the posts? They were cranky. Whiny. The tone was all bitchiness. The editor doesn&#8217;t like that. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My most popular posts in 2010</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/14/my-most-popular-posts-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The awful truth about being brief</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/16/the-awful-truth-about-being-brief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being brief takes time. That is the awful truth. You would think brevity would take less time. It is, after all, brief. The reality, however, is that it takes more time; at least it does if you intend to write something worthwhile. Writing something long, like a blog post, is easy. At least it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The affair of the missing Part II</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/05/the-affair-of-the-missing-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possible you are wondering where Part II is, the post that follows up my post from a few days ago, People and stories — Part 1. I&#8217;m wondering that too. Both of those posts, the published one and the missing follow-up, are part of the document I&#8217;m creating as part of GloManWriMo, a month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double digit nothing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/12/double-digit-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have been characterized by lots to do, a good deal of frustration and, most significantly and surprisingly, reassessment. In other words, I&#8217;m over-extended and not in a good way. I probably have twelve posts on twelve different topics that I have started over the last few weeks, none of which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I don&#8217;t like about other things</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/03/what-i-dont-like-about-other-things/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/03/what-i-dont-like-about-other-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m being diplomatic when I write that I don&#8217;t like other things. The truth is that I hate other things. They just get in the way! What are other things? That&#8217;s easy: they&#8217;re all the things you have to do when what you really want to do is something else. They&#8217;re things like your job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking ahead</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/23/looking-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was less active here at Writelife because I was busy with, work that pays the bills lovely weather requiring me to do outdoor work Every so often, this happens! I haven&#8217;t been inactive, however. I actually got quite a bit of writing done for others and have several posts in the &#8220;half-finished&#8221; stage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy, clarity and informed consent</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/16/privacy-clarity-and-informed-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 15:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For as long as the Internet has been around, two things have always been true: Everything is public Hardly anyone treats it that way We add encryption and passwords and all manner of security tools and processes, but still mistakes happen, sites get hacked, email intercepted, “Reply All” mistakenly hit. When it comes to the [...]]]></description>
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