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		<title>Why I&#8217;ve Recently Lost Interest In Reddit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a lurker on Reddit for something like 4 years now.  I&#8217;ve been a user on Reddit for over 2 years now.  I&#8217;m not the best user they have &#8211; I&#8217;ve only had 1 (maybe 2) front page stories, most of links get little or no votes, I don&#8217;t comment often, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2010/03/12/why-ive-recently-lost-interest-in-reddit/</link>
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		<title>New Theme: Bwd 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can probably tell by my new site design I have another new WordPress theme.  It&#8217;s called Bwd 3 and is a basically two things: A minimalist theme with a robust options page that includes allowing you to participate in CSS Naked Day, have an intro message on the home page, have a custom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2010/02/18/new-theme-bwd-3/</link>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re following 1000 people you&#8217;re really following noone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been using Twitter a lot more lately and, like most people, I&#8217;ve found it interesting but useful and useless at the same time.  How is that?  Let me explain. So Twitter is interesting for many reasons.  Microblogging is a lot easier than blogging &#8211; as is evident by my hundreds of tweets and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2010/02/05/if-youre-following-1000-people-youre-really-following-noone/</link>
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		<title>WordPress themes in the Theme directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post.  I finally got around to submitting two of my themes in the official Theme directory.  They were accepted after some minor corrections.  You can find them here. I just happened to check the stats today and between the two I have over 1200 downloads.  While not impressive considering some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2009/09/20/wordpress-themes-in-the-theme-directory/</link>
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		<title>Dealing With A Large, Opinionated And Active User Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At my current position we are lucky to have a vibrant, active, large, opinionated, and outspoken community.  Perhaps it has to do with having a writing site but most users are logical and literate in their arguments which allows us many insights into the usability of our site, potential flaws / bugs, outstanding issues with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2009/04/13/dealing-with-a-large-opinionated-and-active-user-community/</link>
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		<title>Doesn&#8217;t anyone just need a UI Developer anymore?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So in light of the fact that I maybe be unemployed soon due to circumstances beyond my control I&#8217;ve started to reacquaint myself with the job market and the jobs that I might be qualified for.  It&#8217;s been an interesting experience to say the least.  Unfortunately, there seems to be two prevailing job types: Marketing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2009/04/06/doesnt-anyone-just-need-a-ui-developer-anymore/</link>
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		<title>New home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve finally got my new hosting and I&#8217;m generally happy with it. I&#8217;m still adding some tools and trying to mod some stuff in the background. I&#8217;m hoping to release a version of my theme &#8211; less personalized since the one I use is pretty modified for my taste &#8211; soon. I&#8217;m hoping to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2009/03/28/new-home/</link>
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		<title>I Couldn&#8217;t Have Said It Better Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you should know by now that Charlton Heston is dead.  One of my favorite feeds is from The Ferrett.  Besides having a cool name, being personal friends with one of my professional idols Eric Meyer, writing for Magic the Gathering, and being editor-in-chief of StarCityGames.com &#8211; where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/06/i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself/</link>
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		<title>Helium Marketplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I have been conspicuously bereft of posts for quite a while &#8211; a fact I blatantly ignored in my recent posts. Two reasons for this. One is that I desperately wanted to update my site &#8211; the user interface, more RSS feeds to the sidebar for my ma.gnolia / flickr / reddit /etc, more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/04/02/helium-marketplace/</link>
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		<title>18-1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve had a couple of months to digest this one. I didn&#8217;t want to post anything until I could step back and look at the issue without confusing my thoughts. The Patriots are my home team and as such there is always a resentment when they lose. As any loyal fan I pass blame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/03/30/18-1/</link>
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		<title>Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a strategy to allow a site to rank in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask) for terms. Typically the goal is to rank in the top ten for terms relevant to the main focus of the site and within the top 1-2 pages (10-30 results typically) for secondary focus areas. Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2008/03/28/search-engine-optimization-seo-techniques/</link>
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		<title>Mugsy: A Friend Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was one year ago that I had to make that trip. The vet had called me and told me that although things had been looking up the day before, when Mugsy woke up this morning and the vet looked at her, he knew she would not recover. She couldn&#8217;t feed herself or move and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/10/13/mugsy-a-friend-remembered/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Plug: Blog de Purée</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Figured I would give my good friend Paul at work a little link juice &#8211; although based upon comparing his Technorati rating to mine it might actually hurt him (he&#8217;s way more popular, but I&#8217;m still single and can take advantage of all the blog groupies so it&#8217;s a trade off). Anyways, his site is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/27/shameless-plug-blog-de-puree/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Dirt: Confessions of the World&#8217;s Most Notorious Rock Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit it, I didn&#8217;t know that much about Motley Crue. I only have one album &#8211; which I believe is a greatest hits they put out a few years ago &#8211; and I was (relatively) young during their glory days. But a friend passed this on to me and I figured that since I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/26/book-review-the-dirt-confessions-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-rock-band/</link>
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		<title>SEO: Linking Strategies from Outside Sources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something I drafted up for a discussion on our boards at work and figured I&#8217;d pilfer as content. If I&#8217;m going to do the work anyways, might as well get some content for my site. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a tricky subject but one of the most widely accepted processes is having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/24/seo-linking-strategies-from-outside-sources/</link>
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		<title>Retro Gaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been on a sort of 3 month hiatus this summer &#8211; don&#8217;t judge me. Between work, life, riding my motorcycle, my niece and various other distractions I was just not able to concentrate on providing any quality content or new templates. I figured nothing was better than doing something halfway. I did have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/14/retro-gaming/</link>
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		<title>My Uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had these thoughts for almost 2 weeks now.  Ever since I heard my uncle has passed away.  The last time I saw him was over a year and a half ago.  He was very sick at the time and from what he told me and what I saw I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d see him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/09/11/my-uncle/</link>
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		<title>How You Know You&#8217;re Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you get a MySpace friend invite&#8230; from your 10 year high school reunion. The added irony is I added a friend from high school&#8230; and they didn&#8217;t believe it was me.  If that&#8217;s not funny, I don&#8217;t know what is. I know, MySpace is horrible.  I actually use Facebook more, but I keep the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/08/04/how-you-know-youre-old/</link>
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		<title>Proud Uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been lax in my postings but I am working on several revisions, templates and a reskin of the site.  That, plus personal commitments has kept me away. I did want to announce that I am the proud uncle and godfather of one Victoria Madison.  She was born around 5pm.  I have never been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/30/proud-uncle/</link>
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		<title>Sweet Ma.gnolia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big enough man to admit when I&#8217;m wrong. Well, sort of. Almost since I began this blog, back when it was hosted on wordpress, I have been singing the accolades of del.icio.us. Recently I had begun to expand out and see what else there is in the social bookmarking field. I had tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/09/sweet-magnolia/</link>
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		<title>Better Man Than Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend from work Jason just recently donated his kidney to a friend of his.  Didn&#8217;t ask for anything, just heard his friend needed one, got tested and gave it up.  The more I get to know him the more I like Jason.  He really is a good guy.  I&#8217;m probably going to try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/06/07/better-man-than-me/</link>
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		<title>Social Bookmarking and You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work we recently instituted social bookmarking and networking at the bottom of our items. Apparently our users &#8211; while smart, resourceful, motivated and on a web 2.0 site regularly &#8211; were in many cases unaware of the phenomenon. While the values of Reddit and Digg are well known &#8211; though in the case of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/29/social-bookmarking-and-you/</link>
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		<title>Microformats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading a lot about microformats recently to try and get a better understanding of them, their benefits and how they affect web standards. I&#8217;ve talked a little about them in the past but I wanted to delve more into detail. The basic idea of microformats is to design a standard XHTML template [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/27/microformats/</link>
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		<title>Do people still use tables for layout?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am surprised by how many sites still use tables for layout. This was a practice adopted during the &#8220;browser wars&#8221; because of the low acceptance of CSS &#8211; for complex designs the only method available was to use tables. This is no longer the case. Now with web standards and CSS sites can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/25/do-people-still-use-tables-for-layout/</link>
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		<title>The age old question &#8211; fixed vs fluid (vs. elastic)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fixed vs. flexible design is one of the main arguments of the modern web design era. Much of the argument derives from the fact that IE (Internet Explorer) did not support the min- and max-width properties until version 7. As of this date version 6 and lower are still in such high usage that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bogeywebdesign.com/2007/05/25/the-age-old-question-fixed-vs-fluid-vs-elastic/</link>
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