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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MaxThink satisfies a need for thinking with a computer that I wrote about 30 years ago and reproduced in a post on September 12, 2009, Time Travel: Musing About MaxThink &#38; More… I invite you to hop back and read the earlier post before continuing. I&#8217;ve been using computers for about 30 years and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3213&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ceres Park: Reflections in the Cedar Swamp III</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This trip into Ceres was back in early May of last year. It was a misty, overcast morning. I remember thinking that I wished I had a camera with color capability that day because of the saturated colors. I was carrying two cameras, both loaded with B&#38;W film. I used my F3HP with 85mm lens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3208&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WritePro, Early Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early impressions? After 17 1/2 years? Well, considering that I only used WritePro for a few weeks in 1994, then let the program lie fallow until last week, early impressions are accurate. So what is WritePro? In the words of the author, &#8220;WritePro is a hands-on interactive tutorial program for people who want to improve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3198&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Musings: WritePro &amp; MaxThink</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Universe works in strange ways, or so it seems, unless you understand the law of attraction. Last week, I found something that I didn&#8217;t know I needed, something I had completely fogotten about, when I was looking for something else. Last week&#8217;s Monday Musings featured several modified contour drawings I had done years ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3186&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ceres Park: Reflections in the Cedar Swamp II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of my comments on last week&#8217;s enigmatic reflection image, I promised I would feature the next picture, a very different image, from that same roll of film. As you can see from the brilliant sunshine, it was a perfect morning for playing with light and shadows. I had been crouched down, close to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3173&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Musings: Talk to the Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never ask your left-brain to draw because he doesn&#8217;t know how and he doesn&#8217;t care either. Try putting your hand out in front of you and drawing what you see. If you let your left-brain take the job, he&#8217;ll (my left-brain is a he of course) draw a hand, not this hand, but a caricature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3161&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Unfiltered Public Access to Taxpayer Funded Science is Vital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Research is too important to keep it locked up.&#8221; (taxpayeraccess.org). Our health, the health of our environment, the drive for energy independence and more depend on scientific research. Government regulators justify their actions with scientific data. Science impacts our daily lives in more ways than most people imagine. Science neither thrives nor can it serve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3145&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ceres Park: Reflections in the Cedar Swamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this previously unpublished photo while clicking through my archives the other day. It was taken in the Cedar Swamp inside Ceres Park at the end of March, 2010, several months after I discovered this wonderful, 54 acre nature preserve. I last visited Ceres on a succession of foggy mornings this past November when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3136&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Scan B&amp;W Negatives: VueScan (Intro)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awarewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted a series of tutorials on How to Scan B&#38;W Negatives at the end of 2009. The first tutorial showed how to get better scans by scanning as a positive, the second showed how to bypass your scanner software settings entirely by scanning in 16 bit linear mode. Several months after writing these tutorials, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3125&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Musings: An Emerald Ring, The Story III</title>
		<link>http://awarewriter.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/monday-musings-an-emerald-ring-the-story-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awarewriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computers, with all the windows, pull down menus and one-click access to the Internet, assault our attention, interrupting our muse, breaking our concentration, making creative writing difficult. Minimalist text editors like WriteRoom, Q10 and FocusWriter, try to eliminate these distractions by presenting a writer with a blank screen and a blinking cursor. I eliminate distractions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awarewriter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7754234&amp;post=3110&amp;subd=awarewriter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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