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		<title>Why the Gas-Tax Holiday Won’t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators McCain and Clinton have proposed a &#8220;gas-tax holiday&#8221; this summer, which would eliminate the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal tax on gasoline between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
If you squint and ignore the $10 billion hole it leaves in the federal highway budget (which McCain would fill by borrowing from taxpayers, and Clinton would take out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/04/gas-tax-holiday</link>
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		<title>Things I Hate, Part II: Web Forms that Auto-Tab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seem to be quite a few web designers with too much time on their hands out there, with just enough knowledge of JavaScript to be dangerous. 
What else can explain the fascination with taking what could be a simple text field (for entering a phone number, IP address, or SSN, for instance) and instead making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/04/things-i-hate-part-ii-web-forms-that-auto-tab</link>
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		<title>iPhone Simulator as Try-Before-You-Buy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple released the beta version of their iPhone SDK yesterday, and the response from the developer community was an unintentional DDoS of the entire developer.apple.com domain. But there are a few caveats to the otherwise Christmas-morning-like announcement.
Among them is that to get an app into the hands of users, a developer must sign up for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/03/iphone-simulator-as-try-before-you-buy</link>
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		<title>Fixing Leopard Dictionary Hang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dictionary.app in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) reliably hangs when first launched. Even with a very high-bandwidth and low-latency connection to the Internet.
Apparently this is due to the new Wikipedia functionality built into it. Until Apple fixes this, the easiest way to put teh snappy back into your Dictionary is to open the preferences and uncheck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/01/fixing-leopard-dictionary-hang</link>
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		<title>Easier “Sub-Account” for GMail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of getting an iPhone for Christmas, I moved my personal email account from my hosting company to GMail, using Google Apps for my domain. GMail gives me ]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/01/easier-sub-account</link>
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		<title>Creating a “Sub Account” with GMail and Mail.app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Here’s an easier way.
In anticipation of getting an iPhone for Christmas, I moved my personal email account from my hosting company to GMail, using Google Apps for my domain. GMail gives me ]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/01/gmail-sub-account</link>
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		<title>These Folks Don&#8217;t Mince Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some industries, it&#8217;s best to be less than completely forthright about what your product does:

My guess is some poor sap with a Chinese-English dictionary printed up a few tens of thousands of these, only to have mainstream pet retailers reject them. The ended up at a dollar store in Calgary.
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		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2008/01/these-folks-dont-mince-words</link>
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		<title>I Wish this had been Written in 1999</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and that my former boss had read it:
Computers make copy-and-paste really easy, so every programmer falls into the trap once in a while. The lesson you eventually learn is that code always changes, always always always, and as soon as you have to change the same thing in N places, where N is more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2007/12/i-wish-this-had-been-written-in-1999</link>
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		<title>HOWTO Disable that annoying Emacs Splashscreen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new emacs included with OpenSuSE 10.3 includes a &#8220;feature&#8221; that displays this irritating little splash screen when you&#8217;re trying to edit a file. It&#8217;s almost irritating enough to switch to vi.Fortunately, there&#8217;s an easy way to disable it. Create or edit the file called .emacs in your home directory:
$ vi ~/.emacs
and add the following line:
(setq [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2007/12/howto-disable-the-annoying-new-emacs-splash-screen</link>
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		<title>Things that I Hate, Part I: Download links that aren&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear anonymous webmaster: If you have a download link that ends in, say, .bz2, it should not lead to an HTML page, even if the purpose of said HTML page is to beg me for a donation. No, if the URL ends in .bz2, accessing it should provide me with a bz2 file.
Better yet, don&#8217;t ask me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent</link>
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