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		<title>Cheerio, flabby maggots, sticky balls, and potatoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Ave a spot o&#8217; tea, guvna! I&#8217;m now for sale at Amazon UK. * That blog theme I switched to a while ago? Didn&#8217;t support italics. That&#8217;s a primary typographical function. You have to purposely take it out to get rid of it. As a long-time supporter of italics&#8217; rights, I cannot use a theme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme makeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The site got a bit of a facelift last night. There was a lot of tinkering to remove things I didn&#8217;t want, add things I did want, relocate things to where I think they should go, and fix things that didn&#8217;t transfer well from the previous layout. (Someday when I&#8217;m feeling insanely ambitious, I&#8217;ll move the sidebar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winner of the $30 B&amp;N Giftcard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Random.org barfed out comment #2, who is:  Image by Cool Text: Logo and Button Generator &#8211; Create Your Own Confirmation email sent. If there&#8217;s no response within 5 days, an alternate winner will be selected. ETA: The prize has been claimed and delivered. Thanks to everyone who entered, and especial thanks to everyone who&#8217;s contributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kerry-allen.com/2010/07/19/winner-of-the-30-bn-giftcard/</link>
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		<title>Two valuable lessons readers have taught me about writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot more than two, actually, but I&#8212;surprise!&#8212;misplaced the list I had going. These are the two I remembered best. 1. Writers agonize too much over whether they should devote the first page of a story to setting the stage or jump straight into the action. That&#8217;s an issue of pace and depends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No-Strings-Attached $30 B&amp;N Giftcard Giveaway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea how many copies of Beyond the Darkening I&#8217;ve sold through Barnes &#38; Noble, but it was enough to get it to a sales rank of 167 today. (This is, by the way, a &#8220;Ha, look! My chicken nugget is shaped like Elvis!&#8221; thing rather than a &#8220;Neener neener, I&#8217;m so special&#8221; thing.) To [...]]]></description>
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