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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wamu sold for 2 billion, but JP Morgan wrote down 31 billion in bad debt?</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/investing/wamu-sold-for-2-billion-but-jp-morgan-wrote-down-31-billion-in-bad-debt/102</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m confused by the wamu/jp morgan.  JP Morgan paid 1.9 billion for Wamu retails banks and deposits but apparently had to take a 31 billion dollar write down. 
How can that be? Did they assume 31 billion in bad debt? Who takes ownership of the 300 billion in Wamu mortgages?
Confusing stuff, smells fishy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Hour Work Week - Buy it, trust me</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/books_movies/four-hour-work-week-buy-it-trust-me/100</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/books_movies/four-hour-work-week-buy-it-trust-me/100#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books/Movies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[financial independence]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[outsource]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Its not very often that I read a book and it inspires me to take action immediately.  For the last couple weeks, I&#8217;ve been working my way through The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.  I probably spent more time telling others about it than the time it actually took to read, it was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jott is growing on me</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/jott-is-growing-on-me/99</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/jott-is-growing-on-me/99#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[app store]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[free iphone app]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I posted a few months back, I hesitantly laid down $300 recently to pick up an iPhone.
It&#8217;s an awful phone, but a great little device for everything else.
The iPhone app store offers a ton of free apps for all kinds of uses.  Most of the free apps (and probably the paid) are garbage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prices dropping in seattle</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/real-estate/prices-dropping-in-seattle/98</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like home prices are coming down at least a little in Seattle these days and they are definitely on the market a bit longer than they used to. 
A house in Ballard, just a few blocks from mine recently dropped it&#8217;s price from 339,000 to 325,000.  It&#8217;s sort of a funky house, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Ending Free Dinners for Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/google-ending-free-dinners-for-employees/93</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/google-ending-free-dinners-for-employees/93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[google benefits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Turns out this news was bogus.  Jim Goldman over at Tech Check (CNBC) contacted Google and Google completely denied the rumor.  Here is the link to Jim Goldman&#8217;s CNBC article.
Rumors are swirling that Google will be ending its free dinner service for employees and that the announcement will be made today to staff.
The stories of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you buying now?</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/investing/what-are-you-buying-now/92</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/investing/what-are-you-buying-now/92#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, real estate is a bit sketchy still, energy stocks seem to have reached their peak and interest rates are still pretty low.  Where are you all putting your money?
Stocks?
Depressed real estate?
Staying in cash?
Investing in your own business?
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		<title>AT&#038;T&#8217;s ConnecTech - a brilliant move?</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/atts-connectech-a-brilliant-move/91</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/atts-connectech-a-brilliant-move/91#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[complicated technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard about AT&#038;T&#8217;s new tech support service ConnecTech last week and thought it was a lost cause.  Hoping to make money in home-based tech support seems tricky.  I did it for a few years in the late nineties and any sort of flat rate service plan is likely to be a losing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Adsense is down&#8230;again</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/google-adsense-is-downagain/89</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/google-adsense-is-downagain/89#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Adsense&#8217;s reporting interface has been down for the better part of the day today.  This isn&#8217;t the first time either.  I usually check Adsense every few hours to see if I&#8217;ve received any clicks and its often down for several hours at a time with no custom message indicating when it may be back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pretty device does not a good phone make</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/a-pretty-device-does-not-a-good-phone-make/88</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/commentary/a-pretty-device-does-not-a-good-phone-make/88#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite this week&#8217;s release of updated firmware for the 3g iPhone, the device still sucks as a phone. 
Great as an Internet device, it&#8217;s poor reception, awkward form factor and terrible battery life leave me wishing I still had my trusty E815 motorola for my everyday talking, texting machine.
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		<title>Woot!  A fresh blog face</title>
		<link>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/blogging/woot-a-fresh-blog-face/86</link>
		<comments>http://www.smashingthoughts.com/blog/blogging/woot-a-fresh-blog-face/86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a nasty, outdated wordpress blog theme for a very long time.  As it got more and more out of date, it got more and more broken.  The &#8220;Previous&#8221; and &#8220;Next&#8221; links on the home page broke at some point so I pulled the excerpts off and just was showing all of the post titles [...]]]></description>
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