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	<link>http://arlof.com/blog</link>
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		<title>Activity Update: New Theme and Direction Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having not updated this blog in a regular fashion, I&#8217;ve decided to re-think and re-align its direction more so with what I am doing professionally, namely software interface and usability design, with a sub-section paying special attention to UI design in relation to console, pc and mobile gaming. Other subjects getting partial coverage are sustainability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/new-blog-theme-and-direction/</link>
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		<title>Smallville, Death of a Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the latest Smallville episode &#8220;Hero&#8221; aired last night (Thursday, March 13, 2008) and all I can say about this is.. WTF?
Ads for the episode leading up to Thursday hyped it as some kind of big reveal or a life-changing event for the show&#8217;s characters. To quote Lex in the ad &#8220;Whatever Clark is hiding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/smallville-death-of-a-show/</link>
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		<title>Senuti Replacement Icons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first foray into the world of icon design comes in the form this replacement icon set for the Mac-only iPod transfer utility, <a href="http://fadingred.org/senuti">Senuti</a>. This huge set contains icons matching all recent iPods from the Shuffle to Full-Size iPods.

<img src='http://arlof.com/blog/../uploads/2008/01/senuti-ipod-group.png' alt='Senuti Icon Group' />
[...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/senuti-replacement-icons/</link>
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		<title>Hukabee, God and changing the Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After seeing an article on digg.com this morning regarding statements made by Presidential hopeful Mike Hukabee (R) the need to vote in your state&#8217;s presidential primary election is even more important.
According to the article, Mike Hukabee, while being interviewed Monday morning on the MSNBC show &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221;, stated:
&#8220;I have opponents in this race who do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/hukabee-god-and-the-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Quick Guide: How to use uTorrent on a Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent (June &#8216;07) article over on TorrentFreak about uTorrent for Mac doesn&#8217;t seem hopeful or at least soon coming. They do have another article explaining ways to run uTorrent on your Mac via Crossover Office (beta) or Parallels.
As I migrated away from Windows I bought a copy of Parallels thinking I&#8217;d run them side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/utorrent-on-the-mac/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress, Spam and reCaptcha</title>
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After having comments set to &#8220;always moderate&#8221; for a while, I&#8217;ve gotten tired of deleting the spam comments bots dump on my blog so I turned on Askimet once I realized it wasn&#8217;t on and installed the reCaptcha plugin for Wordpress.
On every other site, captchas are a pain for me. I usually type the image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2008/wordpress-recaptcha-anti-spam/</link>
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		<title>TV is Big Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post the following as a comment to the article &#8220;The Most Dangerous Appliance in Your Home: The Television&#8221; but their captcha anti-spam thing doesn&#8217;t work (I f**king HATE captchas) so I&#8217;m posting it here in an extended form.
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I also agree with all of these statements. The best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/tv-is-big-brother/</link>
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		<title>Placing .indd pages with InDesign CS3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered that InDesign CS3 has extended a feature present in the CS2 version. In the previous version of ID, you would place a PDF and choose the pages you wanted to place. When placed, a link to the file was created and it was treated just like any other image (meaning you couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/placing-pages-in-indesign-cs3/</link>
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		<title>How to Easily Keep a Constant Dock Icon in Leopard&#8217;s Stacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, I&#8217;ve gotten annoyed by the eyesore of Leopard&#8217;s new Stacks feature. Looks like a jumbled mess and since the icons change based on the contents, it&#8217;s hard to tell the Stacks apart if you have multiple Stacks without constant icons. I briefly read over the modified date hack to keep a constant icon and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/leopard-stacks-constant-icon/</link>
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		<title>Stop complaining about the iPhone&#8217;s battery!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every damn post or review I read states something about the iPhone&#8217;s non-removable battery. I have had my LG Chocolate phone for over a year and I have NEVER replaced the battery. I don&#8217;t know anyone who carries a spare battery with them. My girlfriend (who just bought the iPhone yesterday) and I have wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/stop-complaining-about-the-iphones-battery/</link>
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		<title>The LG Voyager &#8230; another letdown, courtesy of Verizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep seeing it on the internets, this is Verizon&#8217;s &#8220;iPhone killer&#8221;. Please, not even close.
I am currently a VZW customer who&#8217;s stuck with the original LG Chocolate (vx8500) and dissatisfied more every day. It&#8217;s not a bad phone, it just doesn&#8217;t suit my needs anymore. I have grown to need a full (qwerty) keyboard, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/the-lg-voyager-another-letdown-courtesy-of-verizon/</link>
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		<title>Freelancing, Contracts &#038; Legalities: A Starter Contract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contracts are an integral part of any freelancer's toolkit. Below, I've posted a good beginner contract in non-editable PDF form. Startup graphic designers, web designers and programmers should all have one before dealing with their first client, many don't know where to begin when writing one.]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/freelancing-contracts-legal/</link>
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		<title>Adobe onAIR Bus Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I attended the Pittsburgh visit of the Adobe AIR (adobe integrated runtime) Bus Tour tonight (posted late, happened on Aug 17). I missed most of the opening keynote, walking in on the last 15 minutes. Right after, they moved into the first of several evening lectures. During the first two or three I felt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/adobe-onair/</link>
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		<title>Um, Server&#8217;s Down Again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my hosting just came back up last night after being down for over 5 DAYS. I had to contact my host&#8217;s tech support TWICE before I got an explanation of the down time. &#8220;We&#8217;re moving all the accounts on server X to a new machine&#8221;. And this takes 5 days? Only after the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/um-servers-down-again/</link>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Switched to a new theme on my site, Simplicity by Karsten Kuhnen. It&#8217;s a german language theme which I have converted to English. I&#8217;ve posted the English version of it here. Should this upset Mr. Kuhnen, please send me an email (or post a comment) and I will remove it.
[update: June 29, 07] Mr. Kuhnen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>Family Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;ol site&#8217;s a little empty at the moment. I recently moved to a WordPress cms to take the maintenance bits off so I can add content without worrying about breaking the site. More recently, I&#8217;ve been busy with my family as my father is fighting a losing battle with colon cancer. Due to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/family-time/</link>
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		<title>movie shoot: I Spit on Eli Roth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 10th, Amandine and I went to the Hundred Acre Manor in South Park outside Pittsburgh to meet up with Midian, Skippy and the other people from Deviant Pictures [http://www.deviantpictures.com/] for the first day of principal shooting on &#8220;I Spit on Eli Roth&#8221; where I play Eli, even though you can&#8217;t see my face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arlof.com/blog/2007/movie-shoot-i-spit-on-eli-roth/</link>
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