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	<description>A personal website of a person: James McMurry</description>
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		<title>Mark Twain Highway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a tepid-to-moderate St. Louis Cardinals fan since I was a kid, and lived in St. Louis during the Mark McGwire (freak)show.  I still follow them from time to time, probably more than any other professional sports team.  It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m unsympathetic to sports pride, it&#8217;s just not something I&#8217;m passionate about.
I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2010/03/mark-twain-highway/</link>
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		<title>Shady Might Be Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the day we decided to call Shady&#8217;s birthday. She&#8217;s considered four, though she&#8217;s really a Permanent Puppy, and those are ageless.

One year ago yesterday, we miraculously got her back after this sequence of events:

Horrible life with previous owner (she lived under a bed for a year)
Return to the Humane Society
A couple of months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2010/02/shady-might-be-four/</link>
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		<title>I Did Not Know: pbzip2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just learned about pbzip2, which lets your multicore computer use more than one core when using the bzip2 compression algorithm.
On my Mac Pro at work, I installed it with MacPorts (`sudo port install pbzip2`).  It is this kind of awesome:

$ ls -lh original.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 jmcmurry  staff   2.4G Feb  4 13:47 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2010/02/i-did-not-know-pbzip2/</link>
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		<title>The Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a small fish pond built into the patio in the backyard, with four small koi therein, mandatorily adopted when we bought the house. I have named them:

Spot is orange with a single white spot on his back.
Whitey is solid white.
Big Man is solid orange and bigger than Shrimp.
Shrimp is solid orange and smaller [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2010/01/the-fish/</link>
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		<title>Pearl&#8217;s Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mama dog is reckoned to be 10 today.  She&#8217;s the boss.  She still acts like a puppy.
Why do we call her Peach?  Because she&#8217;s round and fuzzy and all sweet on the inside.
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		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/09/pearls-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X 10.6 Automator Services: Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been enjoying how Automator in Mac OS X 10.6 lets you easily create services for simple little annoying things.  I expect it&#8217;ll take about three times longer to write about what I just did than it did to actually do it.
I&#8217;m always writing emails containing computer hostnames, and sometimes I want to include the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-10-6-automator-services-awesome/</link>
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		<title>DSL Outage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I lost my DSL service for the weekend. I&#8217;ve performed a highly professional root cause analysis and present the following conclusion:
A big ass chunk of tree fell down and took my phone line with it.



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		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/08/dsl-outage/</link>
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		<title>The Vet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two different approaches to a vet visit.


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		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/06/the-vet/</link>
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		<title>Solaris 10 u6 has no &#8220;-u&#8221; on &#8220;zfs receive&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite what you might read at docs.sun.com, Solaris 10 update 6 doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;-u&#8221; option for `zfs receive`.

jmcmurry@lemon $ cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 27 October 2008
jmcmurry@lemon $ zfs receive -u
invalid option 'u'

This could&#8217;ve been brought to my attention before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/04/solaris-10-u6-has-no-u-on-zfs-receive/</link>
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		<title>Moving a Solaris 10 zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I wanted to move a Solaris 9 zone running on a Solaris 10 test server to a new ZFS dataset within the same ZFS pool with compression enabled.  This container is an archive of an environment we don&#8217;t use very much, normally leave shut down, and intend to delete fairly soon, but since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.semanticnoise.com/2009/03/moving-a-solaris-10-zone/</link>
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