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		<title>What to do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have been busy, so things around here have been&#8230;well&#8230;dead.  Contemplating what to do around here.  Suggestions?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2010/09/09/what-to-do/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are stabilizing a bit around here, so I&#8217;ll be writing again soon. Stay tuned!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/12/13/im-back/</link>
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		<title>Time Machine (The Mac OS X one)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers fail; often. And if they don&#8217;t fail, they get stolen. And if they don&#8217;t get stolen, they get lost. And even if you backup, how often does that backup work. I use a Mac, and every so often I&#8217;m reminded why I use a Mac. It gets out of my way and just works, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/11/15/time-machine-the-mac-os-x-one/</link>
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		<title>On hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bastard has been downsized, that means this little blog will take a back seat while I concentrate on other matters more pressing. Thanks for understanding. If you&#8217;re in Toronto and are looking for top notch IT management (15+ years of enterprise level IT) please use the contact form and let&#8217;s talk! Thank you.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/11/05/on-hiatus/</link>
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		<title>Pretty Hate Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[20 years ago, October 20th. that&#8217;s 1989. One Mr. Trent Reznor unleashed a groundbreaking album unto the world, and it was called Pretty Hate Machine. One of 5 albums that changed my life. Whether you&#8217;re a NIN fan, or not, you have to admit it changed things.  Grab a copy if you&#8217;ve never heard it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/10/21/pretty-hate-machine/</link>
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		<title>TidBITS turns 1000!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief shout-out to the team over at TidBITS (the Mac news site that seems to have been around since the dawning of time!).  They have published a newsletter regularly since April 1990, and hit #1000 on October 19th 2009! To Adam, Tonya and the rest of the TidBITS group; Congratulations and here&#8217;s to another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/10/20/tidbits-turns-1000/</link>
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		<title>Corded Phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My NT Vista 350Northern Telecom Vista 350

Growing up in Toronto in the 80s and 90s meant that my telecom provider at home was Bell.

While you used to be able to buy phones, you also could rent them. For numerous reasons (mostly because Bell was a corporate brother to Northern Telecom) Bell had "NT" phones.

And damn, those phones were good. I should say ARE good.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/10/17/corded-phones/</link>
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		<title>Why is everyone sick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this H1N1 2.0? (apologies in advance for the randomness of this post) I&#8217;m getting over a mild cold. The Irish Wife is blowing chunks of stuff I&#8217;d rather not attempt to describe. 1/2 of my office is sneezing, sniffling, coughing or otherwise miserable.  What the hell is going on? We&#8217;ve had a cold snap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/10/16/why-is-everyone-sick/</link>
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		<title>Living Colour @ Lee&#8217;s Palace &#8211; Toronto 10/3/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, THAT Living Colour! Let&#8217;s get it out of the way up front &#8212; They&#8217;ve been back together since 2000, and have been busy ever since.  Those of you that bought Vivid on cassette or CD then forgot about the band, you missed out.  You need to know right now that they have a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/10/07/living-colour-lees-palace-toronto-1032009/</link>
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		<title>DeWalt DW718 12&#8243; Sliding Miter Saw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DAAAAMN! This thing is a beast! A few weeks ago Home Depot had a HUGE DeWalt sale.  All DeWalt tools were 20% off.  Nice, The Bastard likes.  My feeble $199 Ryobi 10&#8243; sliding miter saw had had its day.  It performed well, but never up to The Scot&#8217;s normally high standards for such pieces.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thescottishbastard.com/2009/09/19/dewalt-dw718-12-sliding-miter-saw/</link>
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