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	<title>An Activist's Life, by Thomas Leavitt</title>
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		<title>Why Orthodox Christians Killed Gnostics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From our standard Easter Sunday service&#8230;
	
The lesson is taken from the Acts of St. John:

	
Jesus said to John: Thou hearest of me suffering, yet I have not
suffered; pierced, yet was I not smitten; hanged, but was not hanged;
blood flowing from me, yet it did not flow. And in a word, what they
say of me, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where were you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	David Segal, writing for the Washington Post on the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain&#8217;s suicide (excellent article), wrote:
	
Countless fans of a certain age can tell you where they were when they first heard &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&#8221; It was the sort of time-stopping event that triggers a flashbulb memory, like the news of an assassination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2006/06/21/where-were-you/</link>
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		<title>Amusing phishing email.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From: 	Dynamic Law firm 
Reply-To: 	dynamiclawfirm@hotmail.com
To: 	undisclosed-recipients : ;
Subject: 	Confirm the receipt of this mail.
Date: 	Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:03:24 +0000  (Mon, 17:03 PST)
	                            DYNAMIC LAW FIRM, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2006/02/13/1134/</link>
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		<title>William Shatner: Not a  Has Been.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A few weeks back, someone put up a complete Star Trek and STNG laser disc and movie collection on FreeCycle&#8230; we grabbed it&#8230; someone else got the Babylon 5 LaserDisc series (but that&#8217;s o.k., becasue that person is a B5 fanatic). All 80 episodes of The Original Star Trek, and all 168 episodes of ST:NG. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2005/11/18/william-shatner-not-a-has-been/</link>
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		<title>Geek vs entrepreneur vs hybrid (me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Geek - sees HP4000m switch with 10 10/100 modules at an office moving/surplus sale, goes, &#8220;cool!&#8221; If s/he buys it, s/he does for the coolness factor of plugging their home network into something that originally cost a ridiculous amount of money, or as a cool toy to play around with.  The price is immaterial. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2005/11/17/geek-vs-entrepreneur-vs-hybrid-me/</link>
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		<title>Me at work.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

Technorati Tags: work


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		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2005/11/15/me-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Movie about Marla&#8217;s life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8216;Spider-Man&#8217; star Dunst plays slain aid worker in
Iraq war movie
	Agence France Presse, October 17, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051017/ts_alt_afp/afpentertainmentusiraq_051017220707
	LOS ANGELES (AFP) - &#8220;Spider-Man&#8221; star Kirsten
Dunst is to play real-life US aid worker Marla
Ruzicka, who was killed in a suicide-bomb attack
in Baghdad in April, in a new Hollywood movie
about the war in Iraq.
	The movie, to be made for Paramount Pictures,
will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: The Fluff Cat</title>
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	One of our cats died last night, in the hospital, after we visited her yesterday afternoon. 
	Her name was &#8220;Fluff&#8221; (or &#8220;The Fluff Cat&#8221;). She was given to my wife and her ex-husband seven or eight years ago, when someone had to move to a place where he couldn&#8217;t take the cat. She was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2005/10/08/in-memorium-the-fluff-cat/</link>
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		<title>Anne Besant (Theosophist) on Social Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	[ http://www.AnandGholap.net - Online Books on Theosophy ]
	“There then is the worth of the ordinary life, and our man of the world has begun to realise that nut in seeking pleasure, wealth, and honour for himself can permanent joy be found; but in the service of his fellow-men, in the helping of the miserable, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/blog/archives/2005/10/05/anne-besant-theosophist-on-social-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Death warmed over&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8230; is what I feel like, after the server&#8217;s root filesystem wound up corrupted as the result of a hard drive crash&#8230; IBM &#8220;Deathstar&#8221; &#8220;click of death&#8221;&#8230; bleah. Emergency system rebuild (from scratch), starting on Sunday night (after two days of trying to persuade one of Mandriva&#8217;s &#8220;early seeders&#8221; to feed me a copy of [...]]]></description>
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