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		<title>Nikon D40 &#8211; A Brave New World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve entered the world of digital photography with a DSLR.  A good friend of mine said I have &#8220;entered the money pit&#8221;.  This has become true.  Suddenly, things like aperture, exposure, shutter speeds, etc &#8211; have entered my vocabulary.  I&#8217;ve spent way too much time on Ken Rockwell&#8217;s website.  Researching lenses, flashes, shot composition, and have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2011/01/18/nikon-d40-a-brave-new-world/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the TSA and Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re likely aware that the TSA has been putting new scanning machines in airports around the country, as well as, policies for a more &#8216;invasive&#8217; pat-down procedure should an &#8216;anomaly&#8217; show up on the scan, or should the passenger choose to opt-out of the scan.  This post isn&#8217;t about the potential health concerns of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/11/25/thoughts-on-the-tsa-and-safety/</link>
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		<title>Avoid Tires Plus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a problem with the local Tires Plus location (#244242) I recently visited. I took my 2005 Toyota 4Runner in for a full-set of new tires (all 4 replaced).  I was called a couple hours later, and was told by the technician that they replaced a TPMS sensor.  They did not state that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/11/22/avoid-tires-plus/</link>
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		<title>Sony Laptop &#8211; VT-x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony has decided to disable a key feature on laptops, to enable virtualization extensions.  My laptop is one such laptop.  Using various resources available on the internet (FreeDOS, symcmos.exe, and a list of firmware codes) &#8211; I was able to enable the VT-x extensions.  Awesome. For those Googling, my laptop model is Sony Vaio VGN-FZ140N.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/11/02/sony-laptop-vt-x/</link>
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		<title>Shout Out &#8211; Gootimer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a friend and co-worker of mine launched a side-project of his.  Gootimer is a service, which you can use to manage your time-tracking tasks.  James is an excellent developer, and very meticulous about tracking his time spent on various tasks.  It&#8217;s a quality I envy greatly, as it significantly adds to overall organization, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/11/02/shout-out-gootimer/</link>
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		<title>MySQL Query Optimizer Tweak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered a situation where I had a query that was built with quite a few joins (~8), and I found that the query was taking a bit longer than I expected, especially for the number of rows to look at / return.  With each join, you add in more complexity for MySQL to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/07/14/mysql-query-optimizer-tweak/</link>
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		<title>Announcing Name-O Bingo Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RoweWare Solutions, LLC is proud to announce its first software offering! Name-O Bingo Cards is a simple application to make creating custom bingo cards an easier task for anyone that uses them.  Launch the application, edit your word lists, hit Print, and you have fresh, hot, Bingo cards! As this is the first product, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/06/14/announcing-name-o-bingo-cards/</link>
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		<title>KDE System Clock &#8211; 24-hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use KDE as my main desktop environment. Recently I was rebuilding an installation, and saw my clock was set to the 24-hour style, instead of the American style of 12-hour with AMPM. Clicking through the settings on the clock widget itself, I found no settings for getting that changed back. I always find out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/06/04/kde-system-clock-24-hour/</link>
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		<title>ArchLinux &#8211; yaourt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to ArchLinux users: If you decide to rebuild an installation, and of course you&#8217;re going to use yaourt for community built packages, you need to remember to install &#8216;base-devel&#8217;. If you don&#8217;t install &#8216;base-devel&#8217; you may receive vague messages like &#8220;Unable to read PKGBUILD for &#8220;. For me, the solution was a simple &#8216;pacman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/06/03/203/</link>
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		<title>SQL Server Export Encoding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask someone for an export of data, and you know the data is coming from SQL Server, be sure to clarify what encoding you&#8217;d like the export in (if they can configure it) &#8211; I spent a bit of time trying to figure out why I couldn&#8217;t reliably read a file, and by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.roweware.com/2010/03/03/sql-server-export-encoding/</link>
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