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	<title>Adrift at Sea &#187; Essays</title>
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	<description>Dan’s Blog about Sailing on a Telstar 28 named Pretty Gee, Friends, Family, Photography, Security, Technology, and other things.</description>
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		<title>Social Networking Sites and Identity Theft</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/03/16/social-networking-id/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/03/16/social-networking-id/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am a member of some social networking sites and have a fairly high on-line presence, I thought I’d write a bit about security and social network sites. A lot of social networking sites, like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and such have a fair amount of personal information about anyone who is a member. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-deploying Government</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/02/22/re-deploying-government/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/02/22/re-deploying-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who thinks that Congress should be totally revamped? When this country was formed, having Congress meet in Washington, DC made sense. The travel times for the congressmen, especially those in remote western states, and the lack of anything resembling high-speed communication made it necessary.  However, those same restrictions are no longer an issue today.  Almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cored Laminates in GRP Boats</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/01/15/grp-materials/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2010/01/15/grp-materials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boat Projects]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a caveat, I am not a laminate engineer, but a just an amateur boat builder.  As such, the information contained within this post is written to be a basic primer. Modern GRP boats often use a cored laminate construction for several reasons.  A cored laminate can be much stiffer, stronger and lighter than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Generation Automobile</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/12/12/the-next-generation-automobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average passenger car requires about 25 horsepower for 90% of its operation.  The only time more horsepower is really needed is when the vehicle is accelerating. Unfortunately, current automotive technology has to design the engine for the 10% requirement of relatively high-horsepower, rather than the 90%—leaving the engine running fairly inefficiently 90% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Bail Out Detroit</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/12/12/should-we-bail-out-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/12/12/should-we-bail-out-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George W. Bush’s plan to tap the TARP fund to bail out the big Three is short-sighted and irresponsible. It doesn’t matter where the money goes, it is throwing good money after bad. Letting the auto industry sink or swim on its own is the only way to get the UAW and the management of the big three automakers to accept a changed reality of the auto industry. Honda, Toyota, et al, all have factories in the USA now. Building cars that are fuel efficient is something that should have been done decades ago....]]></description>
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		<title>Death of A Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/03/14/death-of-a-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/03/14/death-of-a-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather Neill announced her plans to circumnavigate the globe in s/v Flight of Years, a Pacific Seacraft Flicka last year. This was a rather unusual announcement, given that Heather was not a sailor, and had relatively little experience sailing at the time of her announcement. You can read about her and her preparations at her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capsizing A Multihull</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/03/07/capsizing-a-multihull/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2008/03/07/capsizing-a-multihull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/2008/03/07/capsizing-a-multihull/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a sailing forum, the question of capsize or pitchpoling a multihull came up recently. That’s a good question, how common is capsizing a cruising multihull? The poster was talking about two trimarans that had pitchpoled. I’d like to look at that now. The risk of capsize on a cruising multihull is miniscule, provided the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An American Problem</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2007/04/18/an-american-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2007/04/18/an-american-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my on-line friends, Alex, recently posted this message in response to the killings at Virginia Tech. I have been watching the news here in the US&#8230; What drives young people to go to a school and shoot people like that??? And its not the first time either&#8230; God help America&#8230;.this is so crazy&#8230;.. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>37 Days and Meta’s Story</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/11/28/37-days-and-meta/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/11/28/37-days-and-meta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/2006/11/28/37-days-and-meta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite blogs to read is 37 Days, by Patti Digh. A recent post of her talks about the movie “March of the Penguins”, and talks about a young woman named Meta. The story really hit home for me, since Meta was about the same age as my identical twin and, like him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/29/blame/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/29/blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Dear Elena, there is a post titled “Blame”. It is about whether Daniel or Kim is responsible for their daughter’s death. Elena died from a bacterial infection about six months ago. I can understand this behavior. I went through much the same thing after my twin brother, David, was killed. I also went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing Around Cape Ann</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/19/sailing-around-cape-ann/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/19/sailing-around-cape-ann/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is a sailing blog, at least to some degree&#8230; I should probably write about sailing at some point. As part of my plan for long-distance passage making, I was taking a Macro Cruising Course over at the Boston Sailing Center. I’ve also posted some photos, per Tillerman’s request. I hope you enjoy the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Terrorism?</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/13/what-is-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/13/what-is-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Define: Terrorism This is the definition according to Wikipedia. Terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change.[1][2] Terrorist attacks are designed to influence the broader society to which those killed, injured, or taken hostage belong. The dramatic focus of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Death</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/03/fear-of-death/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/08/03/fear-of-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a post on a blog I read called Fear of Death. The post is about the fear of death, and of dying that was caused by her friend’s diagnosis with a particularly nasty form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The author writes: “And it was only then, maybe ten minutes before they arrived, that I finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/05/23/leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/05/23/leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dankim.com/2006/05/23/leadership/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes a good leader? I was watching a movie the other night&#8230; a tacky apopcalyptic movie titled, “10.5”, about an earthquake that devastates the west coast of the United States. The President of the United States in the movie is playing a game of basketball with an old friend when he is told about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/03/31/identity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/03/31/identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Dear Elena, there is an article on identification, and it set me to thinking about who I am. As my life has progressed, who I am has changed. During my life, I’ve had two identities which have really defined who I am. The first is when I was a child, I was always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Sailing Quotes</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/03/04/more-sailing-quotes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/03/04/more-sailing-quotes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.”</em>
Ralph Waldo Emerson

<em>“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”</em>
Louisa May Alcott

<em>“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”</em>
Mark Twain]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Misbehaving</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/03/04/republicans-misbehaving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a collection of short posts that all seem to have a common thread—Republicans misbehaving.  Whether it is lying, intimidation, spying, breaking the law, or stealing, it all seems to point to a definite lack of moral values by the party of the Moral Majority.  How sad.  Even worse is that the American people continue to allow such behavior to continue endlessly.]]></description>
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		<title>A Sane Response to Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/02/10/a-sane-response-to-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wandering the internet, I came across an <a href="http://qntm.org/terrorism.html"> article</a> with an excellent and sane response to terrorists and terrorism.  America could learn alot from this.  My thanks to <a href="http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/002408.html">Emergent Chaos</a> for the link.]]></description>
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		<title>Fascism—American Style</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/02/10/fascism%e2%80%94american-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article that pointed me to Dr. Lawrence Britt’s essay on the Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism.  Now let’s take a look at each of Britt’s fourteen points, and how America, in 2006,  under the Bush <strike>Presidency</strike> regime is faring.]]></description>
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		<title>Real Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a very good post over at Not Bad For A Cubicle on Airport Security. He is one of the few that I have seen writing on the subject who realizes that most of the highly visible security measures that have been implemented in the United States are also among the least effective. He also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFID Passport Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/01/31/rfid-passport-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology, being used for technology’s sake, rarely is effective, unless it is done with a thorough understanding of the underlying issues and requirements.  That is not the case here.  <strong>RFID technology is not a technological panacea that will make national security or identifying the bad guys easier, unless it is properly used.</strong>  <em>In fact, it is more likely to make national security, especially for our citizens abroad, far lower, and make them more easily identifiable by the bad guys.</em>]]></description>
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		<title>Third World Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2006/01/30/third-world-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, glad to say that GWB did not disappoint (see my previous post). The government of the United States is officially in default. They’ve exceeded the debt ceiling of $8.18 trillion dollars, and are now at $8.19 trillion dollars, as noted in the Homeland Stupidity blog. Of course, what would you expect from a man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gore and Clinton: Two Different Takes on Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Irregular Times blog, one of my regulars, has an excellent analysis on the differences between Al Gore and Hillary Clinton’s take on democracy and the actions of the Bush Administration. You can read the whole article here. I’ve quoted the conclusion below. It is one that I strongly agree with. Whereas Al Gore’s speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rule of Law, Al Gore and George W. Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the Democrats have realized that George W. Bush has broken the law.  Al Gore denounces GWB in his speech on Martin Luther King Day.   In his speech, he and  Congressman Barr, a conservative Republican, both denounce the actions of George W. Bush. Barr has also stated that we are close to becoming a totalitarian society <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2005/111205totalitariandanger.htm">here</a>.  I have quoted Gore’s speech below.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Security for Granted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often get asked if I run anti-virus software on my Mac, and if I do, why do I bother.  The reasoning of the people asking me is usually something like: “There are no viruses for Mac OS X, so why waste the time/money running an anti-virus package on a Mac.”  ]]></description>
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		<title>And the heavens wept&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2005/08/28/and-the-heavens-wept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather the past few days has been pretty strange. It has been unseasonably cool for Virginia in August, and much rainier than is usually the case. We’ve got green grass here in Virginia. Normally, by this time of year, the grass is dead and brown without some serious lawn watering. Earlier in the week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion of the iPod People</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2005/08/19/invasion-of-the-ipod-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston has appeared to be invaded by iPod People]]></description>
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		<title>Denver&#8217;s Dog Slaughter</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2005/07/29/denver-dog-slaughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am outraged.  Apparently Denver has just passed a law that makes owning a "pit bull" illegal.  This law gives the city the right to seize and kill dogs based, not on bad acts or behavior, but purely on their appearance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Moving On—Part II</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2005/07/28/moving-on%e2%80%94part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I’m waiting for a truck to show up.  It is pickup day for me.  PODS is sending a truck to pickup the POD that I’ve had sitting in my driveway for most of the last year.  A lot has happened since I decided to move.  The whole moving process has been one difficult.  As I said previously, when I originally bought this place, I had planned on raising a family here.  Now, I am leaving the first real home I’ve ever had.  This weekend, I’m heading up to New England, to return to where I grew up.  ]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment of Silence</title>
		<link>http://blog.dankim.com/2005/06/11/a-moment-of-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like all the readers of my blog to hold a moment of silence.  This moment, 11:00 A.M. on June 11th,  marks the fourth year since my <a href="http://www.dankim.com/gee/goodbye.htm>Gee died.</a>   I would also like to celebrate the memories and life of the woman I <a href="http://www.dankim.com/gee/wedding.htm">married.</a>   I do hope for all of those who read my blog and website, that you will someday find a person who you both love and are loved by in the way Gee and I shared.]]></description>
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