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	<description>Tom's notes of what is happening and the computers I use</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Where are the troops now?</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/05/27/where-are-the-troops-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this decade a lot of conservatives were saying that even though Saddam Hussein did not have WMD it was good thing we took him out because the Iraqi people were suffering under him.  Well, what I want to know why in the world is Bush not sending hundreds of thousands of troops into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worthless Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/03/28/worthless-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the demise of HD DVD push you to buy a Blu-ray hi-def player?




I win! I bought Blu-ray already.




Too late, I bought HD DVD and I&#8217;m stuck.




No, I&#8217;m waiting for hi-def downloads.




No, I don&#8217;t need a hi-def DVD player.




What&#8217;s HD DVD?


So this poll which appeared at Computerworld after Toshiba announced the end of HD-DVD asks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grant&#8217;s solo</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/02/14/grants-solo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/02/14/grants-solo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is fixed now, took some messing around to get the software to output a true letterbox, essentially created DVD files with the aspect set to 4&#215;3 and the had the black bars added top and bottom then ripped the video to a new file. Seems like there should be an easier way to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting googleness</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/01/27/interesting-googleness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was considering installing XP today on a new drive I picked up last week (a vast expanse of 500 gigabytes woohoo) when it occurred to me that the next service pack for XP is due out soon. Wanting to save some time since it can typically take an hour or so to install a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Todays Quote</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2008/01/27/todays-quote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I logged into my linux box this morning the quote that come up was:
&#8220;He is the best of men who dislikes power.&#8221;
Interesting quote that and also interesting that this apparently came from Muhammad. I&#8217;ll leave the interpretation to the reader.
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		<title>Visual Studio 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/12/31/visual-studio-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/12/31/visual-studio-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a copy of visual studio 2008 at work and was eager to give it a try after going to a demo at microsoft and heard about its capabilities.  For the most part it worked well but it has given some problems that make non-starter for me.  The big one is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone/iPod Touch Development</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/10/12/iphoneipod-touch-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/10/12/iphoneipod-touch-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So Apple announced that third part development will be allowed on the iPhone and iPod touch, very cool news and certainly took them long enough to realize the desire there.
As I thought about this more I realized why Apple took the stance they did initially, they could see that this product was going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dept of Licensing is amazing</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/10/03/dept-of-licensing-is-amazing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/10/03/dept-of-licensing-is-amazing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Went in to the Department of Licensing (DOL) to renew the tabs on the car today which went fairly smoothly.  One very interesting thing is that Washington citizens are now required to show a valid drivers license in order to renew their car tabs. Not sure what problem they are trying to solve here, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Install Nero on Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/08/23/install-nero-on-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/08/23/install-nero-on-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to pick up a new dvd writer since the Sony I had picked up a couple years ago stopped ejecting the disks and would scratch them. Disappointing. So I went up to Frys and found a Pioneer drive that came with Nero and got it.  My first attempt to install the Nero software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drop all foreign keys</title>
		<link>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/07/23/drop-all-foreign-keys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thestidhams.com/tom/wp/2007/07/23/drop-all-foreign-keys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was working on some tables today and found the need to drop all the foreign key constraints. There is no easy function in the manager so I whipped up this little bit of SQL that will create the commands needed to do this.  This will work in MS Sql Server 2000 and 2005
SELECT &#8216;ALTER [...]]]></description>
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