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	<description>Eyolf Østrem on Dylan, Computers, and then some</description>
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		<title>St Stallman: A Hero of the Highest Order</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/02/st-stallman-a-hero-of-the-highest-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m not God — I&#8217;m just a saint.&#8221; Richard M. Stallman The Phoenix &#62; News Features &#62; Tilting at Windows Richard M. Stallman is a legendary figure without whom the world would have looked very different, and one of those few whose initials &#8212; RMS &#8212; is a concept, on a par with JFK and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Learned Helplessness of Windows&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/the-learned-helplessness-of-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinuxPlanet &#8211; Opinions &#8211; The Learned Helplessness of Windows &#8211; Where are the Pliers? I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve written a single dedicated pro-linux post on this blog so far &#8212; not because I don&#8217;t think that way, but because I haven&#8217;t really had anything I have needed to communicate about, beyond the obvious. This article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Laptop Per Child</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/10/one-laptop-per-child/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/10/one-laptop-per-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project I thought, &#8220;Dream on. Nice idea, perhaps a tad imperialistic despite its good intentions, but more than a tad unrealistic &#8212; it&#8217;ll never happen anyway, so not to worry. Nice dream, but dream on.&#8221; The idea was this: a laptop, designed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KDE help &#8212; give me a break!</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/09/kde-help-give-me-a-break/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/09/kde-help-give-me-a-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use KDE, the most usable Linux desktop environment. I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say I love KDE, but I couldn&#8217;t live without it either. Except on those certain days, that is. When I want to look up something in a help file. This is one of those days. Frankly, and no offense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Browser stats, day #3</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/09/browser-stats-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/09/browser-stats-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you tell me what is strange with this picture, which shows the browsers that have been used to view the pages on this site during the three days since I moved? If you say: &#8220;That Firefox has almost 50%, and more than IE&#8221;, you&#8217;re part right. On the other hand: it is not surprising, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-word-vs-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-word-vs-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 01:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve earlier performed a little test, comparing two files: one produced with MS Word, the other with OpenOffice.org Writer. The purpose then was to demonstrate that Word isn&#8217;t necessarily such a bad piece of software &#8212; it&#8217;s just not always used in a way which is likely to give nice results: most people don&#8217;t change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dylanchords.com guide: &#8220;How to use Word without hurting Heiner&#8217;s  eyes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/the-dylanchordscom-guide-how-to-use-word-without-hurting-heiners-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/the-dylanchordscom-guide-how-to-use-word-without-hurting-heiners-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon general request, here&#8217;s my guide to proper use of MS Word: Never ever use direct formatting. That means: never ever click on any of the buttons in the formatting toolbar .&#160;.&#160;.&#160;which means that you might as well disable that toolbar altogether (right-click in the toolbar area and uncheck &#8220;Formatting&#8221;) You are allowed to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of typography</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/the-politics-of-typography/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/the-politics-of-typography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever consider the political implications of the ascii standard? No? Thought so. Someone who did is Robert Bringhurst. And these are not the only implications of typography that he has considered. The title of his book The Elements of Typographical Style may not be sexy, not the kind of thing you would read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful software III: Image viewers and editors</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/useful-software-iii-image-viewers-and-editors/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/useful-software-iii-image-viewers-and-editors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote earlier about a new image viewer &#8212; FastStone. I did like it, but it turned out the &#8220;Fast&#8221; part was an exaggeration. For a quick, efficient, feature-rich picture viewer/editor, there are really only two alternatives: irfanview and XnView. Which one is the right one, depends on your needs, but they&#8217;re both free and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;. . . whatever / I Stumble Upon&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/whatever-i-stumble-upon/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/09/whatever-i-stumble-upon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started with &#8220;google&#8221; &#8212; an internet term which became a standard word in any word class and in any language. Then it was &#8220;blog&#8221;, which is apparently the word that most quickly has been entered in French dictionaries. But where I live, &#8220;Stumble&#8221; tops them all. People can be &#8216;thumbs-upped&#8217; for their great stumbles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE&#8212;FF 54&#8212;33</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/06/ieff-5433/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/06/ieff-5433/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve collected some browser statistics from the visitor tracker for the blog. IE is still in the lead, but nowhere near the 90% which was the state of affairs at the main site before november 1, 2004. A third of the visitors now use Firefox/Mozilla, which is what specialist&#8217;s and web developers&#8217; sites usually have. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful software, update</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/03/useful-software-update/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/03/useful-software-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having tested the various file management programs a little more thoroughly, I&#8217;ve ended up with a fifth favorite: Total Commander. The main features are more or less the same as in the other programs (two panels, tabs, ftp client and archive support integrated, almost unlimited configurability, great keyboard support, etc.), but it works more smoothly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful software</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/03/useful-software/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/03/useful-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve come up with some new tabs, I think I&#8217;ve earned the right to talk about something else again. I&#8217;ve revamped my computer lately, and found some stuff that I thought I&#8217;d pass on. After two years of heavy use, loads of downloads, installations, ex-stallations, trial versions etc., my computer was becoming excruciatingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ClearType</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/02/cleartype/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/02/cleartype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I happened to look at this page on a computer without ClearType activated. And man &#8230; I had completely forgotten how ugly text on a computer screen can look. Really, with Clear Type, what you see on the screen comes reasonably close to looking at a printed page (whereas the &#8220;old&#8221; screen view comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of Wichita &#8212; the full story</title>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/02/the-battle-of-wichita-the-full-story/</link>
		<comments>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2005/02/the-battle-of-wichita-the-full-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eyolf Østrem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, here’s the full story of the battle of Wichita, as requested. It sounds pretty easy at first — just a run down similar to so many other songs (The Wicked Messenger, Down the Highway, and quite a few others), but when it came down to figuring out the details… One thing was for certain: [...]]]></description>
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