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	<title>Chris Wiegman</title>
	<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com</link>
	<description>Web geek and more!</description>
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		<title>Tales From a Redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally made some headway today in our redesign of http://www.aviation.siu.edu. In a meeting with the departmental executive committee it was finally agreed upon that we must take the actual content of the site seriously. This is a big move as for the last 10 years I have almost never received any feedback on any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/03/tales-from-a-redesign/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3.6 Bug?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m perplexed. Every time I startup Firefox 3.6 on my mac I lose the last folder in the bookmarks toolbar. Moving it out of the toolbar and back in fixes it until the next time I start the browser. Anyone else seen this? How have you fixed it?


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		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/03/firefox-3-6-bug/</link>
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		<title>I Might Need a New Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been with Bluehost for over a year now, but it might be time to move some of my sites away. The CPU throttling is simply becoming too excessive (up to 600 seconds some hours) and, in my opinion, unwarranted for a few sites that collectively receive very little traffic. Anyone have any suggestions on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/02/i-might-need-a-new-host/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress: Replace target=&#8221;blank&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after getting tired of not being able to use the external link selection in the built-in Wordpress TinyMCE I decided to do something about it. Here&#8217;s a little Wordpress Plugin that will scan the text of your site and replace any instance of target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; with class=&#8221;target_blank&#8221;. It then uses a small jquery script to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/02/wordpress-replace-targetblank/</link>
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		<title>Using a Custom wp-signup Page With Wordpress MU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress MU is a great system, but as with all systems their are drawbacks. One such drawback I&#8217;ve had problems with is the lack of available customizations for the sign-up/registration page. Whether you just want to change the style, or change the very text itself there really isn&#8217;t anything you can do with it without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/02/using-a-custom-wp-signup-page-with-wordpress-mu/</link>
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		<title>Experts Earn Their Title</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A conversation the other day got me wondering what is an expert? I mean, what makes them an expert in their field? Is it that they&#8217;re smarter than everyone else? Is it just that they spent more time at it that everyone else? What is it?
In the web the idea of an expert is often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/02/experts-earn-their-title/</link>
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		<title>5 Things I&#8217;d Like To See In 2010</title>
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More Adobe support for Linux
I love my Ubuntu, but as a web developer it can&#8217;t be the only computer I work on due to it&#8217;s lack of support for Photoshop. Sure there is Wine and other hacks to get Photoshop working, but it doesn&#8217;t compare with the native environment on my Mac. In addition, although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2010/01/5-things-id-like-to-see-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>The 5 Most Important Wordpress Plugins of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who uses Wordpress knows there are plugins for almost anything and, in many cases, multiple plugins to do the same thing. These plugins, often created to help with a specific task on a specific site, are all good in their own right, however few of them are usable for anyone outside of the site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/12/the-5-most-important-wordpress-plugins-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>Enjoying the Break While Figuring Out What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Holiday break is finally here. After what has been one of the most hectic semesters of all it couldn&#8217;t have come soon enough. The down time, while a needed break, also affords me the time to contemplate what will be next and, maybe more importantly, what I&#8217;ve accomplished.
Looking back there are a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/12/enjoying-the-break-while-figuring-out-whats-next/</link>
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		<title>New Mobile Version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who hit this site from a cell phone (according to the logs there&#8217;s a few) I&#8217;ve installed WordPress Mobile Pack which automatically provides an appropriately scaled-down version of my site for phones and similar devices. Check it out and let me know what you think. There is no separate URL or anything. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/11/new-mobile-version/</link>
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		<title>Another New Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just can&#8217;t decide on what I like so here goes another one. Let me know what you think.
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		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/11/another-new-theme/</link>
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		<title>A Simpler Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I decided to re-theme again. The goal is something easier to read and navigate. The next step is then to redo my portfolio and about pages as well as to add a resume page. Hopefully that will bring this site a little more in-line with where I want it to be.
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		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/11/a-simpler-theme/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7, A Redeeming Quality or Two on Another Failed OS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a couple of weeks ago I posted some of the reasons I found Windows 7 so bad. However as Ubuntu 9.10 hasn&#8217;t been released yet I&#8217;ve continued to plug along with it. Next week however will be the end of it. I&#8217;m tired of the random application crashes. I&#8217;m tired of 60+ second boot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/10/windows-7-a-redeeming-quality-or-two-on-another-failed-os/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; It Still Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I know I said I wouldn&#8217;t even bother trying it, however the allure of &#8220;new&#8221; was just too much to pass up and as a result I&#8217;ve been running 7 in my office since it came out to Enterprise customers in August. As of this point (about 7 weeks in) all I can say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/10/windows-7-it-still-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on the New iPods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been an iPod user for four years now. My first iPod was the iPod Video 60GB which has by far been one of the best pieces of electronic wizardry I&#8217;ve ever owned. I&#8217;ve used it everywhere from my bedroom to the cockpit of the planes I used to fly for a living and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/09/reflections-on-the-new-ipods/</link>
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		<title>Pondering the Perfect Headphones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I bought a new iPod classic today. Now I just want to find some headphones to go with it. I&#8217;m looking for over -the-ear headphones that would be comfortable for hours each day. The last pair I had to foor the bill was the Telex Stratus 50d aviation headset that I spent $900 for. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/09/pondering-the-perfect-headphones/</link>
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		<title>2 IPs for Webserver security &#8211; What do you think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for the longest time our webserver was a Windows IIS machine running ASP CLASSIC apps on an MSSQL database and administered via RDC, FTP, and a little WebDav. As our campus has a perimeter firewall we decided to take advantage of this to protect administrative services by using to NICs. The first hosted only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/08/2-ips-for-webserver-security-what-do-you-think/</link>
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		<title>5 Reasons Everyone Should Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.) Blogging forces you to research and learn

Day in and day out we go through our lives at work and home without much reason to change. Although what we are doing now might work, we often don&#8217;t have much incentive to learn anything new. Blogging helps by forcing you to learn something new as you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/07/5-reasons-everyone-should-blog/</link>
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		<title>Site of the Day: Southern Illinois University Carbondale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a web developer it is absolutely necessary that I work to keep up with the trends around me. To do so requires more than just browsing through sites looking for the results of a Google search, it requires dissecting what makes great sites great and bad sites bad. As such I&#8217;m going to review [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/06/site-of-the-day-southern-illinois-university-carbondale/</link>
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		<title>The Woes of Changing Direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Changing direction on a long-term project is never easy. Not only do we need to learn new things, but just switching a long held mindset can often be anything by easy.
This is where I stand right now with our primary website at work (http://www.aviation.siu.edu). I have been actively developing this site on my own for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriswiegman.com/2009/06/the-woes-of-changing-direction/</link>
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