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	<title>The Raven&#039;s Mutterings</title>
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	<description>Wherein Carl Cravens talks about geeky stuff</description>
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		<title>Man vs Minecraft, achievements and goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the Minecraft vidcasters, Paul Soares, Jr  on YouTube, recently started a new series called "Man vs Minecraft," in the style of a television show.  It's rather interesting, in that he has created a set of "hard core" rules by which he has to play... basically, he has to survive 14 Minecraft days travelling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/02/man-vs-minecraft-achievements-and-goals/</link>
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		<title>What needs &#8220;fixed&#8221; in Minecraft: Day/Night, Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to discuss "broken" bits of Minecraft and what might be done about it. Day/Night cycle My first inclination is to say that the day/night cycle is too short. Ten minutes is not a lot of time to rush outside, scan for creepers, then run to your building location. I'm building an arched bridge across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/02/what-needs-fixed-in-minecraft-daynight-water/</link>
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		<title>What needs &#8220;fixed&#8221; in Minecraft: Mob drops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still playing a lot of Minecraft (though I've been distracted by Katamari Damacy on the PS2 recently... very addictive game). Over the next few posts, I'm going talk about things I'd like to see "fixed"... not new things I'd like to see in the game, but existing game mechanics that affect game play as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/01/what-needs-fixed-in-minecraft-mob-drops/</link>
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		<title>Can I infringe on copyright &#8220;from memory&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous post brought up another interesting line of thought I've been mulling over lately. Magazine X publishes a photo spread of a pretty girl in a themed setting. (That the girl was mostly naked isn't important, but this is an actual case concerning a couple of "men's magazines," back in the '90's, IIRC.) Magazine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/01/can-i-infringe-on-copyright-from-memory/</link>
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		<title>Who owns my code?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a *NIX systems administrator, I write a lot of utility code. Backup scripts, configuration scripts, that kind of thing. I run my own personal Linux servers and workstations at home, and because I work and play in very similar computing environments, much of what I do at work applies to what I do at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/01/who-owns-my-code/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve fallen down a mineshaft and can&#8217;t get up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I started playing Minecraft&#8230; a game that has sold nearly 1,000,000 "pre-orders" and won PC Gamer "Game of the Year" while it was still in Alpha test stage. (It only recently entered Beta and is scheduled for "release" late 2011.) It's a game about exploring a 3D world while breaking and building stuff with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2011/01/ive-fallen-down-a-mineshaft-and-cant-get-up/</link>
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		<title>Learning Flash ain&#8217;t so hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So while I'm learning ActionScript 3 and trying to write games with the Flixel game library, I'm reading the Flixel forums. And it's educational... the number of "kids" who have jumped into Flash programming as their self-introduction to software development is high. What's funny about it is how obvious it is that some of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/10/learning-flash-aint-so-hard/</link>
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		<title>Learning the Language, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, shortly after I wrote yesterday's post (half a year ago),  I decided to try C++.  I know C moderately well (though I'm rusty), and C++ pretty much has everything I'm looking for… robust GUI libraries, tons of third-party libraries, a billion books and resources. And C++ isn't all that "old school"… lots of useful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/10/learning-the-language-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Learning the Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been stuck for blogging. Mostly because I have a handful of half-finished posts that keep me from blogging about anything else. Time to clear them out. I've run into a odd crisis of sorts. Professionally, I'm a Unix systems administrator. But not a fill-in-the-blank, push-the-button sysadmin&#8230; I write lots of utility code, I analyze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/10/learning-the-language/</link>
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		<title>Knitting FO teaser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FO = "Finished Object". As opposed to UFO = "UnFinished Object". In fact, as we speak (so to speak), I (sorta) have no UFOs. This must be remedied. I call this a teaser because... I don't have pics, but I promised you an update, didn't I? Last night, I completed The Hat. The Hat is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/01/knitting-fo-teaser/</link>
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