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		<title>Athena&#8217;s Tiles Lite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free trial version just went live on the App Store. So far I&#8217;ve been getting one week turnaround on submissions to Apple.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=885&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another inconvenient truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexican government officials disputed Sec. of State Clinton&#8217;s remarks comparing the situation in Mexico with that of Colombia in the &#8217;80s, particularly her use of the word insurrection. In this article in yesterday&#8217;s editorial in El Norte de Juarez, the editor of the largest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, with two murdered reporters so far, makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=875&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8211; National &#8211; The Atlantic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Coates has been studying the Civil War and there has been quite an interesting discussion going on his blog. This post was special and I think for anyone belonging to an aggrieved minority it&#8217;s well worth pondering. Compassion &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8211; National &#8211; The Atlantic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=869&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrowland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future starts in California. Arnold rules; Broke, foreclosed, Prop. 8<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=835&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you James Madison et. al.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Constitution Day. Let&#8217;s all say the Pledge together.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=863&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at my 1/23 post, BACK, and at first I thought it was OBE (overtaken by events) since the Democrats did pass a health bill of sorts and put two liberal Justices on the Court. But then I thought that they seem to be all tuckered out from that and on their way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=858&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Athena&#8217;s Tiles</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/athenas-tiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first iPhone® app went live on the App Store on 9/4. Yay! Athena&#8217;s Tiles Video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=850&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stopped blogging for the last half year. I just got involved with other things, especially starting a business, and I felt like I needed the break. It&#8217;s a new year, the Divine Comedy continues, and its time to start up again. So many things have happened that would be impossible to create in fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=846&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update to Leviathan 2007</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/update-to-leviathan-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a poem Leviathan 2007. Some of the ideas may have seemed exaggerated to some readers. If you are one of them, you might want to reread it and then look at this. Thanks to my niece Genevieve for bringing this to my attention.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=830&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a withering contempt for people who panic in a crisis, spread rumors, and make things worse. It is one reason I don&#8217;t watch TV news, since that is their primary technique. I understand that at a personal level some element of panic is involuntary when it hits, but it still strikes me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=817&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faux Pas</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/faux-pas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1989 I was working with a small computer company with offices in a squat, Steelcase-grey building located in the plebian 12th arrondisement of Paris. There was no sense of the style and flair we associate with France. The employees were mostly young computer nerds which was a culture I knew so I felt at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=805&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Gilbert</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/elizabeth-gilbert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert is the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love. She gave a talk at TED that I just saw yesterday. She has wonderful stage presence and high intelligence which made for an arresting presentation. She examined creativity and stress. Why do we have so many artists who succumb as drunks, suicides, mental cases? What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=792&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers, sic transit gloria</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/newspapers-sic-transit-gloria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That newpapers are in trouble is not news. However understanding how they managed to slide into bankruptcy is a little more complicated. Jeff Jarvis has an excellent summary. The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they’re preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=789&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forty-eight</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/forty-eight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight is double four Lower US seen from Alaska Winner of WWII California Gold Rush Triple Sweet Sixteen How old Becky would have been today<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=783&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From my journal on a restless night</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/from-my-journal-on-a-restless-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 3:14 AM I am thankful for • My dog Veronica • My friend John • My friends Son &#38; Belle • My health • My house • My Weber natural gas grill • My car • My books • My mind • Quicken • Netflix • Amazon.com • Apple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=780&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always an embarrasment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was living in France in 1991. The US Senate, in televised sessions, was discussing the porn star Long Dong Silver as part of their august deliberations on whether to advise and consent to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. This puzzled my French friends and they asked me to explain it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=756&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Lai, nostra culpa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The massacre at My Lai happened 41 years ago today. The best online source of information about it is here from the BBC. If you don&#8217;t know what it was about you really should learn.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=747&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delirio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review Delirio by Laura Restrepo (original Spanish) Delirium by Laura Restrepo (English translation) Augustina goes crazy over a weekend while her husband is away with his kids from a previous marriage. Why? The husband tries to find out. The story takes place in Bogota when Pablo Escobar was at his zenith and it looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=736&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter J. Kelly World History teacher November 1963 An Irishman from Central Casting, he taught us all about the Church “Look at it this way” he said to the Jewish kids who bristled as one “Know your enemy” The laughter relaxed both Jew and Gentile Then that meant everyone Some days he even made fun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=728&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Basho, wherever you are</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old pond no frog sound Dow Jones dives deep; Obama Daylight Saving Time<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4152638&amp;post=724&amp;subd=ortegaygasset&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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