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		<title>My take on socialized medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note that:
* This was free (grand total of $2 for a bus ticket)
* The entire thing took about 1 hour, I was in line for about 30 minutes tops
* I&#8217;m not even Canadian!
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		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>More on that Android serial port stuff&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a stable build for the serial-port-enabled kernel, finally! Get it at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4521020#post4521020
and play safe!
What does it do? It lets you use the serial port present in the G1 phone for custom applications. Such as, I don&#8217;t know, robots  
The main change from the older one, other than &#8220;it&#8217;s easier to install&#8221; because it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<title>A verbose explanation for a simple hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how to modify a servo for continuous rotation. There are many ways to do this, in this brief video I&#8217;m explaining how to do it in a way that is:
1) reversible,
2) doable by people who don&#8217;t want to mess with a soldering iron.
This is very handy if you live somewhere servos aren&#8217;t easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>If you call a phone Android, someone&#8217;ll hook it up to a robot eventually&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After seeing the excellent tutorial on Instructables on how to connect a serial cable to a G1 phone, I decided to do some followup work on that. I will post my own instructable on how to make your own serial port level shfter later &#8212; in the meantime, here&#8217;s a little treat: a 1.51 (Cupcake) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>See I&#8217;m not that well traveled?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://maps.google.com/?q=http://spirit-plumber.com/life.kml
The places in my life I&#8217;ve been to, not counting stays of less than a month or stays where I didn&#8217;t do any study or work. Each place is indexed once. I tried to keep them in chronological order. Starts in Milan.
I&#8217;ve mostly stuck to the northern emisphere and the Atlantic really&#8230; I need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Math is hard&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; especially when you have to contend with the limitations of whatever little microcontroller you&#8217;re working with; a lot of micros don&#8217;t have trig functions or only have sin/cos/tan. Atan2 is a fundamental function in navigation (it lets you turn two pairs of coordinates, for example where you are and where you&#8217;re going, into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Philosophical musings on a practical problem.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on the &#8220;small hacks that require a very steady hand&#8221; theme, today I&#8217;ve modified my Nokia 6300i phone to be charged from the USB data cable (so that you only need 1 cable for everything, not 2). This allows me to find phone power with much greater ease as usbmini cables are easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=28</link>
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		<title>How to add right click to a Macbook touchpad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not talking about that two-finger-and-click thing that modern Macbooks have. I&#8217;m actually talking about how to wire a right mouse button in! This requires very few parts, does not make you disassemble a mouse, doesn&#8217;t tie up a USB port and on the Macbook Pro you can even do it without taking the computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=22</link>
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		<title>1/20/09: &#8220;It is never too late to be what we might have been.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Americans: I&#8217;m very happy that your long national nightmare is over. I&#8217;m looking forward to passing by on that side of the atlantic soon.

Dear Canadians: Are you feeling a bit more relaxed now? I know I am.
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		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>A question to the wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[if there was a global database for all CCD cameras, BUT it was uneditable and available to absolutely everyone to peruse/copy without charge, would you be more in favor or more against camera surveillance?
I think that most people who are against surveillance are mostly against either its abuse (from the bottom), or their own inability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-plumber.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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