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		<title>I&#8217;m Better Off Caffeinated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working as a drug addiction counselor, I&#8217;m supposed to help my clients get off harmful, addictive drugs. The dirty secret is that I&#8217;ve been dependent on a drug too, it just happens to be legal, cheap and readily available: coffee. Three weeks ago I made a decision to go off caffeine. I had tried to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Just Don&#8217;t Hold it that Way&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or &#8220;Why I don&#8217;t use Apple products.&#8221; so there&#8217;s a big kerfuffle about the new iPhone and how holding it the &#8220;wrong&#8221; way stops the phone from connecting to AT&#38;T&#8217;s network. This is no isolated incident. When the unibody MacBook pros came out, I went into an Apple store to try one out. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step into My Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a theory that when you ask the universe for something, it always answers. It was exactly six days since my last post that I got a call from Kay Starr Rachelson about joining her group practice, The Cottages Psychotherapy Center. Apparently we hit it off pretty well, because she offered me an office of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Between Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for a long-overdue update, dear readers. When I went back to school to become a therapist, I imagined the day when my studies would be over and I could start practicing &#8220;for real.&#8221; As always, reality is far more complicated than imagination. Graduation itself has become a drawn-out affair. I completed my last class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Online Resumes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the end of October, I&#8217;ll be a newly-minted counselor looking for his first paying gig.  Resumes are always a big part of the job search and in the past they&#8217;ve always been a pain to distribute.  But I&#8217;ve figured out a way to combine three different technologies to make resume access simple, elegant, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only Cheaters Prosper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post has been eight years in the making.  I&#8217;ve seen the following story repeat itself throughout my IT career.  It is at least part of the reason I don&#8217;t do IT any more.  Here is the concrete example that spurred me write this tale at long last. A business hires a software consulting firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For All of Us Who Can&#8217;t Get by on Our Good Looks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I give you&#8230;Susan Boyle!]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Snow Globe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia weather is just weird.  Yesterday it was 60+ degrees.  Today, a little after noon, this started&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Birth of a Counselor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Think of this as the afterword to Death of a Programmer) On Friday, I turned in my ID badge and left my tech writing job at Equifax. On Monday, I&#8217;ll begin an internship that will allow me to become licensed to practice as a professional counselor (a psychotherapist) in Georgia. To an outsider, this seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vastandinfinite.com/?p=377</link>
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		<title>Videoblogging Made Darn Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How easy is it to put video on the web? Very, very easy. I was at WalMart today and saw a webcam for less than twenty bucks. That sounded like a cheap experiment to me, and I wanted to try out Google Video Chat anyway. Once I got it working, I went over to YouTube [...]]]></description>
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