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	<description>tasty like your mama used to make</description>
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		<title>A letter to Publix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While surfing the net looking for nutrition facts. I stumbled across the Fair Food Campaign being conducted by the Coalition of Immokalee workers. I read some, then I watched their &#8220;One Penny More&#8221; video. Then I wrote this letter. Dear People in Charge of Publix, I love shopping at Publix and I love tomatoes. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2011/08/a-letter-to-publix/</link>
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		<title>A letter to facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear facebook.com, Your photo management interface is inexcusably bad. In what universe does it make sense to &#8220;Edit Album Info&#8221; in order to move a photo to a different album? Why can&#8217;t you move a photo to an album unless it already exists? Why can&#8217;t you create an album without uploading photos? Why is your only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2011/05/a-letter-to-facebook/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;re doing it wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no excuse for asking for a third-party password on your website. You’re doing it wrong. That authentication must happen on the third-party site. -  Jeremy Keith  in  The password anti-pattern Words to design by.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2011/05/youre-doing-it-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Rant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it absolutely infuriating when my quality of work has to suffer because of your ego. But I&#8217;m sick to my stomach that the users have to pay the price.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2009/11/rant/</link>
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		<title>An invalid schema or catalog was specified for the provider &#8220;MSDASQL&#8221; for linked server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make sure &#8220;level zero only&#8221; is checked on the MSDASQL provider. Now to the question! SQL Server&#8217;s linked server feature lets you link to a remote server through an ODBC connection. Once the server is linked, you are supposed to be able to reference it using four-part notation like so: SELECT * FROM linkedserver...tablename If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2008/12/invalid-schema-error/</link>
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		<title>Crunchy Buttered Squares of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have used random nouns as terms of endearment, (honey, peanut, cupcake). It seems like a common human trait to label the ones we love with various words that aren&#8217;t necessarily descriptive or meaningful. Take pumpkin. It&#8217;s a large rounded food in the squash family that tends to be a rather lovely shade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2008/06/buttered-love/</link>
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		<title>Smoked sausage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the alarm screeches and my extremities freeze from the fans trying to propel smoke through the wide open doors and windows I&#8217;m realizing&#8230;  I don&#8217;t have a clue how to cook sausage. Blame my vegetarian upbringing.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2008/02/smoked-sausage/</link>
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		<title>Chicken Speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today on A Prarie Home Companion re-broadcast I heard Molly Ivins tell a story about Austin Texas in the 60&#8242;s that ended with a chicken on speed. I can&#8217;t tell you how much that meant to me but I would like you to imagine a chicken on speed and tell me you don&#8217;t get tingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2008/01/chicken-speed/</link>
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		<title>Writing Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hooked on the internet since my first page load in some unremembered location at some unremembered time (definitely pre-Google) . In those days the web was wild with roaming herds of gifs and copyright infringement and I had some of the most tasteful gifs and infringement in my entire Yahoo chat crew. Years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2007/12/writing-star/</link>
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		<title>Not quite the comeback it might seem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost a year since I updated this site. I still don&#8217;t have content but if it makes you feel better I feel pretty bad about it. In fact I&#8217;m only here because the guilt has started to reach uncomfortable levels (not because I have anything in particular to say). So what have I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sparkalyn.com/2007/06/not-quite-the-comeback-it-might-seem/</link>
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