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	<title>If I Were King</title>
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	<description>The world might not be a better place, but it would make more sense.</description>
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		<title>The Devil Made Me Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not always easy to be a devout Christian in an increasingly-secular world, but the worst of it doesn&#8217;t come from agnostics, or even the believers who just don&#8217;t feel moved to participate regularly in worship. I say grace before eating at McDonald&#8217;s and openly cross myself afterward, without attracting hostility. The hard part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2010/01/the-devil-made-me-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Google vs China, Quietly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s challenge to China yesterday was big news here, barely a whisper in China. According to Andrew Jacobs in Google’s Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China in today&#8217;s NYT, the Great Firewall hid almost every trace of the uproar from the Chinese public. Imagine that! They even censor news about their censorship, about which nobody is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2010/01/google-vs-china-quietly/</link>
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		<title>Google Stands Up to China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve greatly admired Google since the day my Kiwi friend Bruce Hoult suggested trying it as a replacement for an aging Alta Vista. My search behavior comes close to monogamy, although I&#8217;ve occasionally dallied with others. I predominantly used the home-town favorite, WebCrawler, for ages, then was lured by better results at Alta Vista, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2010/01/google-stands-up-to-china/</link>
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		<title>Tax the Banks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Obama Weighs Tax on Banks to Cut Deficit in today&#8217;s New York Times, the Obama administration is considering a significant tax on large banks to help close the current deficit. Needless to say, the banks aren&#8217;t exactly thrilled at the prospect, pointing out that most of them have already paid back their bailouts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2010/01/tax-the-banks/</link>
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		<title>Gap between Google and Microsoft is huge and the New York Times is losing it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times yesterday ran an item in their &#8220;Bits&#8221; blog titled &#8220;The Gap Between Google and Rivals May Be Smaller Than You Think&#8220;. The author, Miguel Helft, missed the boat by a mile. Twice.
First he asserted &#8220;With a combined 28 percent of the American search market, Yahoo and Microsoft could double their usage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/08/gap-between-google-and-microsoft-is-huge-and-the-new-york-times-is-losing-it/</link>
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		<title>New site, great burgers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did some work at Yelm, Washington last year, and had the chance to catch a burger at the grill on the golf course. The &#8220;Blue Chip Burger&#8221; was definitely in the top half dozen burgers of my experience, with Maytag blue cheese, bacon, mushrooms, and saut&#38;eacute;ed onions. Definitely a three or four napkin burger.
Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/07/new-site-great-burgers/</link>
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		<title>Greatest Musician since Elvis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson died at his rented Los Angeles home on Thursday afternoon. It doesn&#8217;t make me happy when anyone dies, particularly if they&#8217;re younger than I am. Death is a normal part of life, but any individual death is an upsetting experience and I wish that everyone might be spared from death in their families [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/06/greatest-musician-since-elvis/</link>
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		<title>Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In A Pound of Cure, published in the July/August MIT Technology Review, Andy Kessler challenges the possibility of addressing the cost of health care without addressing the motivations of the health-care industry. He references the recent Dartmouth College study that suggests, based on analysis of 4,000 hospitals, that eliminating 30% of the resources committed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/06/motivation/</link>
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		<title>Enemy of the State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article in today&#8217;s New York Times entitled Iran Stepping Up Effort to Quell Election Protest today, Nazila Fathi and Michael Slackman said, &#8220;The nation’s leadership cast anyone refusing to accept the results of the race as an enemy of the state.&#8221; I can live with that.  I cannot accept the election results released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/06/enemy-of-the-state/</link>
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		<title>Arrest the Cops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sufficiently informed on Iranian politics to know if Mir Hussein Moussavi is really a huge step forward over the raving, intransigent incumbent, but the people of Iran certainly think so. I&#8217;m not certain that the US should take a strong position in support of Moussavi, the risks of appearing to meddle in local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ifiwereking.net/2009/06/arrest-the-cops/</link>
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