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		<title>How To Write a College Admissions Essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Atypical College Essay – unedited from 2001, for @blobyblobyblob, since he asked. Author’s note: the following is my response to one of the essay prompts on the undergraduate application of Stanford University. Applicants were instructed to choose something important to them, take a picture of it, paste this picture into a box on the application, <a href="http://shedletsky.com/blog/how-to-write-a-college-admissions-essay"><b>...More</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/how-to-write-a-college-admissions-essay</link>
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		<title>Setting up for the ROBLOX RALLY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost 1000 players descending on the Exploratorium tomorrow. When I joined ROBLOX, there were less than 1000 players total.]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/setting-up-for-the-roblox-rally</link>
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		<title>Epic Places Are Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DUN DUN DUN]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/epic-places-are-coming</link>
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		<title>Building the BEAST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We needed a fast machine for video recording on short notice at work, so I built one this weekend. With the exception of the RAID controller, plugging everything together and configuring it was pretty easy. It makes no sense to me that you can grab a bunch of random parts from different manufacturers, connect them <a href="http://shedletsky.com/blog/building-the-beast"><b>...More</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/building-the-beast</link>
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		<title>Why Does TweetDeck Constantly Write to my Hard Drive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/why-does-tweetdeck-constantly-write-to-my-hard-drive</link>
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		<title>Wordfall &#8211; Highest Score Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; The highest score in Wordfall that I have ever seen.]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/wordfall-highest-score-ever</link>
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		<title>John&#8217;s GDC Talk Hit List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make sure you hit the talk that the EVE Online guys are giving Thursday at 4:30. It’s always great. Also, I hear that John Shedletsky guy has some interesting stuff to say about Tracking Player Engagement and Radically Improving Monetization. That’s at 3 PM on Wednesday. February 28 &#8211; March 4, 2011 San Francisco, CA <a href="http://shedletsky.com/blog/johns-gdc-talk-hit-list"><b>...More</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/johns-gdc-talk-hit-list</link>
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		<title>All 4 Billion IP Addresses are Allocated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free pool of Internet IPv4 addresses has now officially depleted. The IANA on February 3rdallocated the final five blocks (also referred to as “/8s”) of IPv4 address space to the five RIR (Regional Internet Registries) communities. The full addressable range of IPv4, all 4.2 billion addresses, is completely saturated.]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/all-4-billion-ip-addresses-are-allocated</link>
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		<title>Looking for Help to Test the ROBLOX Data Persistence API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m looking for a small group (~10) of people to help test the upcoming ROBLOX DP API. When made public, this API will let place creators save and load data from lua scripts. We expect this feature to unlock exciting new game types on ROBLOX. However, scaling it up to support hundreds of thousands of <a href="http://shedletsky.com/blog/looking-for-help-to-test-the-roblox-data-persistence-api"><b>...More</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/looking-for-help-to-test-the-roblox-data-persistence-api</link>
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		<title>Online Dating is Hilarious</title>
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		<link>http://shedletsky.com/blog/online-dating-is-hilarious</link>
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