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		<title>Death of an iMac—Part Two</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/03/10/death-of-an-imac%e2%80%94part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/03/10/death-of-an-imac%e2%80%94part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[27 Inch iMac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Death of an iMac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iMac Sucks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I covered the problems I had with my 24-inch iMac and how I ended up exchanging it for a 27-inch model. This week I want to share some of my experiences with my new iMac.
After the Apple Store employee brought my iMac out to my truck, I carefully loaded in the computer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of an iMac: Part One</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/03/03/death-of-an-imac-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/03/03/death-of-an-imac-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[27 Inch iMac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Macintosh Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death of an iMac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iMac Breaks Down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iMac Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iMac Sucks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of my computing life, I&#8217;ve had mostly good luck with hardware. But every once in a while a computer or component comes along that just keeps crapping out over and over. So it has been with my 24-inch iMac, and two weeks ago it finally came to its end.
When I first bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Reader Responses &amp; Potpourri</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/26/february-reader-responses-potpourri/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/26/february-reader-responses-potpourri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distrocows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Lynch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the month again: Time for me to respond to some reader comments and cover a few potpourri items.
Eye on the iPad
sverrisson, writing in response to my &#8220;5 Reasons Why I Won&#8217;t Buy an iPad&#8221; column, said this:
Who cares if the name resembles a female product? Would anyone care if it resembled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Linux Mint Killed Distrohopping?</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/18/has-linux-mint-killed-distrohopping/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/18/has-linux-mint-killed-distrohopping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distrohopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Has Linux Mint Killed Distrohopping?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Mint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the old days, Linux used to be a tough cookie to get installed. It was way more challenging than Windows and certainly nothing like Mac OS X. You never really knew if it would work well with all of your hardware until you tried it. Sometimes things went great and other times—well, let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecigarettes: A Good Kind of Vaporware?</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/11/ecigarettes-a-good-kind-of-vaporware/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/11/ecigarettes-a-good-kind-of-vaporware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buy Ecigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheap Ecigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecigarette Flavors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecigarette Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecigarettes Safer Than Tobacco Cigarettes?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Cigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA Ecigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Smoke Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make that might shock you. I used to smoke.
In my late teens and early 20s, I was a chain smoker. I enjoyed it. I loved having a cigarette in my fingers and I enjoyed the experience of smoking. I especially enjoyed it in college while I was writing papers; there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why I Won&#8217;t Buy an iPad</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/10/5-reasons-why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/02/10/5-reasons-why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5 Reasons Why I Won't Buy an iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple iPad Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iBooks Sucks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad No E-Ink Screen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad Sucks for eBooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad Versus Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why the iPad Sucks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ridiculous hype is finally over and Steve Jobs has given birth to yet another neat consumer device. The iPad isn&#8217;t even shipping yet, and it&#8217;s already made a huge splash in the press. Coverage of the iPad has been everywhere and Apple fans are swooning and waiting to whip out their credit cards to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Reader Responses &amp; Potpourri</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/28/january-reader-responses-potpourri/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/28/january-reader-responses-potpourri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reader Responses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten quite a few comments since I started writing for ET again, so I thought I&#8217;d take one column per month and address some of them. And I&#8217;ve also included a few potpourri items about current technology events that are interesting, but might not warrant a full column of their own.
So let&#8217;s start with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Google Chrome for the Mac</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/06/why-i-love-google-chrome-for-the-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/06/why-i-love-google-chrome-for-the-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome Beats Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome Browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome Faster Than Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Chrome for Mac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few years, Firefox has been the only browser I use regularly. I&#8217;ve never cheated on it. Oh sure, I&#8217;ve had brief flings. I tried my best to really like Safari on my Macs, but it always left me cold. I don&#8217;t use Windows enough to have Internet Explorer as my main browser. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye to the GIMP</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/03/goodbye-to-the-gimp/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/01/03/goodbye-to-the-gimp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIMP Removed From Ubuntu Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIMP Replacement in Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodbye to the GIMP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a sad time for Ubuntu users. Canonical has announced that it is removing the GNU Image Manipulation Program, aka GIMP, from the default Ubuntu installation routine.
Canonical hosted its biannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) last week in Dallas, Texas. I was one of many open source software developers who attended the event and participated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give the Gift of Linux for the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/12/21/give-the-gift-of-linux-for-the-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/12/21/give-the-gift-of-linux-for-the-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Linux for Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Give Linux for the Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Gift for Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Holiday Gift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry Christmas Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry Christmas Tux!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s absolutely no denying that we&#8217;re in a terrible economy right now. Unemployment is way up over the last year and consumer spending is down significantly. So what&#8217;s a person to do for Christmas gifts this year? Instead of stuffing your loved ones&#8217; stockings with fat-laden candy or silly doodads made in China, you should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Software Fanatics</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/12/11/free-software-fanatics/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/12/11/free-software-fanatics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Software Fanatics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Software License]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Desktop Linux Reviews, I recently wrote a review of Mandriva Linux 2010. For the review I picked the &#8220;free&#8221; version of Mandriva Linux, which meant it had no proprietary applications or codecs installed.
In the review, I wrote this:
For this review I picked the Mandriva Linux 2010 (Free) version. This version contains 100% free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with SUSE Studio</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/30/fun-with-suse-studio/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/30/fun-with-suse-studio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Create Your Own Linux Distro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roll Your Own Distro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suse Studio Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of desktop Linux distros out there that you can try for free. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to simply roll your own distro? Tech-savvy developers can do this fairly easily, but Joe and Jane Desktop User really couldn't—until now.

SUSE Studio puts you in the developer's chair and lets you create your own customized version of desktop Linux. You don't even need to download software to do it, just visit the SUSE Studio site to get started. You can do everything necessary in your browser—no other tools are required.]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Isn&#8217;t That Awful After All</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/24/windows-7-isnt-that-awful-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/24/windows-7-isnt-that-awful-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7 Doesn't Suck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7 Review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jimlynch.com/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 was launched just over a month ago—I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard, read, seen, and generally experienced all of the hype. I, however, have been pretty much ignoring Windows 7 since the day Microsoft first announced it. Well, I finally got around to paying some attention to it and ended up installing Windows 7 Ultimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Telecommuting Allowed!</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/19/no-telecommuting-allowed/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/19/no-telecommuting-allowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies Who Hire Telecommuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Telecommuting Allowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecommuting Saves Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Companies Should Hire Telecommuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Companies Should Welcome Telecommuting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since my full-time gig as Community Manager for Ziff Davis Media ended back in June, I&#8217;ve been looking around for a new gig by checking various job sites. I&#8217;ve been dismayed at how many job descriptions state that you must be in the office and that telecommuters are not invited to apply.
This strikes me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Confessions of A World of Warcraft Addict!</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/11/secret-confessions-of-a-world-of-warcraft-addict/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/11/secret-confessions-of-a-world-of-warcraft-addict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addicted to World of Warcraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addicted To WOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blizzard Game Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMORPG Addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World of Warcraft Addiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Lance Ulanoff, over at PCMag, posted an interesting link on Twitter a while back (you can find me on Twitter here) to an article dealing with MMORPG addiction.
It was sad and somewhat moving to read about one guy&#8217;s struggle with it. He lost his girlfriend, his job, and pretty much his life to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology Of A Distrohopper</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/04/the-psychology-of-a-distrohopper/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/11/04/the-psychology-of-a-distrohopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are You A Distrohopper?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change Linux Distro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Changing Your Linux Distro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop Linux Users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distrowatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distrohoppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Psychology Of Distrohoppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Switch Linux Distros?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a unique breed of Linux user out there these days and they&#8217;re called &#8220;distrohoppers.&#8221; What the heck is a distrohopper? Well according to the Urban Dictionary, here&#8217;s the definition of a distrohopper:

&#8220;A distrohopper is someone that keeps switching from one Linux distribution to another, not with the intention to just test a certain Linux [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtues of Virtualization</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/10/27/the-virtues-of-virtualization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buy VMWare or Parallels?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten some flack from a few of my readers over on Desktop Linux Reviews for using virtualization software to run Linux distros. It seems that some people feel that virtualization is &#8220;cheating&#8221; or that somehow it warps the review in a negative way.
I couldn&#8217;t disagree more with that perspective. Since there&#8217;s no way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why I Won&#8217;t Buy A Nook</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/10/22/5-reasons-why-i-wont-buy-a-nook/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/10/22/5-reasons-why-i-wont-buy-a-nook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is the Nook Better Than The Kindle?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement of Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s &#8220;Nook&#8221; ebook reader really caught my eye, to say the least. As some of you might know by now I tend to lust after gadgets sometimes and, despite being the mostly happy owner of a Kindle 2, I developed a terrible case of gadget lust when I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The More Things Change&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/10/16/the-more-things-change/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/10/16/the-more-things-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ExtremeTech Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well&#8230;look what the cat has dragged back in to ET. Yes, I&#8217;m back. Well in a manner of speaking anyway. I&#8217;m not here as a full-time employee or as Community Manager. I&#8217;m here as a columnist and content contributor.
How did this insanity come about?
Lance Ulanoff (the EIC of PCMag.com) pinged me a while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes 9 Review</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/09/itunes-9-review/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/09/itunes-9-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always had a love/hate relationship going with iTunes. On one hand I've loved the sheer amount of content I could get from it. Movies, music, audiobooks, iPhone apps...there's just a ton of stuff available in the iTunes store. But I've also been annoyed by its slowness, clunky interface and various other things.]]></description>
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		<title>Blizzard&#8217;s World of Greedcraft!</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/03/blizzards-world-of-greedcraft/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/03/blizzards-world-of-greedcraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blizzard Overcharging Customers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blizzard Rips off Customers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blizzard Screws Players With High Fees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of my last columns I pointed out 5 Reasons Why World of Warcraft Doesn&#8217;t Suck. Patch 3.2 added some great stuff and helped improve playability considerably. Unfortunately, World of Warcraft is a business and so it&#8217;s not always about playability. Sometimes it&#8217;s all about profit and greed. Yes, greed. Naked, in-your-face, over-the-top, out-of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Chrome OS: The Unnecessary Operating System</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/01/google-chrome-os-the-unnecessary-operating-system/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/09/01/google-chrome-os-the-unnecessary-operating-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrome: The Unnecessary Operating System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do You Trust Google?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been an amazing amount of hype about Chrome, Google&#8217;s upcoming operating system. Before I get into this column let&#8217;s look at what Google says Chrome is:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why I Love Mac OS X Snow Leopard!</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/08/28/5-reasons-why-i-love-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/08/28/5-reasons-why-i-love-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I got an email from Apple saying that I could order Mac OS X Snow Leopard and have it delivered by today. Since I planned to buy it anyway, I hopped on the offer since it meant free shipping too. So instead of having to drive to the nearest Apple store (which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Trails!</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/07/25/happy-trails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well as the saying goes&#8230;all good things must come to an end. And so it is with this iteration of ExtremeTech and with my involvement with the site. It&#8217;s been a fantastic 8 years (wow! 8 years? unreal!) and we&#8217;ve all come a long, long way.
If you weren&#8217;t already aware, changes are afoot here at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu Satanic Edition 666.6 Jesus&#8217; Jugular Review</title>
		<link>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/06/20/ubuntu-satanic-edition-666-6-jesus-jugular-review/</link>
		<comments>http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2009/06/20/ubuntu-satanic-edition-666-6-jesus-jugular-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve looked at a couple of religious based distributions such as Ubuntu: Christian Edition and Ubuntu: Muslim Edition. But there&#8217;s another version of Ubuntu&#8230;a dark and evil one. A version so hideous and so terrible that it&#8217;s name is only spoken in whispers among Linux users&#8230;
Yep! There really is a satanic version of Ubuntu and [...]]]></description>
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