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		<title>Disastrous December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After catching a little snowfall over Thanksgiving, December 2009 started out in a very pleasant way. That first weekend we took a short trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit family and to enjoy a long weekend away from home.
We visited Sharon&#8217;s father in Santa Rosa. At 93 years of age, he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where have I been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize to friends, family &#8211;  and even a few of my detractors &#8211; for being absent for so long and for failing to update this website since last August. I&#8217;ve been busy. Very busy. To say that my bucket has been full over the past year would be, at the minimum, a gross understatement.
So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misery in Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my birthday. Everything was great, good weather, nice lunch, and little trip to Macy&#8217;s for a pair of fancy flip-flops and a couple pairs of badly needed pants. Oh, yeah, and a quick stop at See&#8217;s Candy Store for a box of two-dozen truffles &#8211; dietetic, of course.
Now that I am older and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/misery-in-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Mom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost fifty years since I lived at home with my parents. In spite of the passage of all that time, I think that like most kids of my generation I can still remember some of the phrases that Mom would use frequently to try to teach me proper manners, eat my food, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/remembering-mom/</link>
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		<title>The Great Storm of &#8216;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What we first thought to be gunshots continued unabated throughout the day on Sunday. Our home is surrounded by very tall evergreens of every species and stately old oaks &#8211; and we soon realized that our own private forest was the source of those horrific sounds. Huge branches sounded like wounded elephants as they ripped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/great-storm-of-08/</link>
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		<title>Conversion to WordPress 2.7 begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of my website clients have contacted me and wondered when their new sites will be finished and ready for daily use. Others have been expecting upgrades or major modifications to their sites and wondered if I had forgotten about them.
I have not forgotten about you, have not left the country, and have not gone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/wordpress-27/</link>
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		<title>More on &#8220;news alerts&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After publishing the previous article entitled &#8220;Watch out for &#8216;news alerts,&#8217; I did some updated checking to see if either CNN.com or MSNBC.com have acknowledged the problem and have tried to do anything about it. I&#8217;m pleased to say that progress is being made &#8211; I think&#8230;
MSNBC.com has actually put up a blog article about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/news-alerts2/</link>
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		<title>Watch out for &#8220;news alerts&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks many of my email accounts, especially Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail.com, have been inundated with messages purporting to be from CNN.com and MSNBC.com. They are &#8220;phishing&#8221; emails, trying to harvest new active email accounts by either (1)registering the emails that actually open the messages, and/or (2) by capturing emails from people trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/news-alerts/</link>
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		<title>New websites &#8211; BendTree.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My final entry for today is about another new website that I am currently working on for Bend Cascadia Nursery, a Bend, Oregon wholesale nursery company.  I stumbled across this client after looking at some computer &#8220;gigs&#8221; on Craigslist.org.  
Once in a great while I&#8217;ll get the itch to go check the Craigslist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/bend-cascadia-nursery/</link>
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		<title>New websites &#8211; PoultonImaging.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my earlier post, I&#8217;ve been keeping busy building and supporting some new websites.  I&#8217;ve not done much in the way of active marketing for new business, but I have managed to keep a steady flow of small business owners inquiring about my services. 
I think most are surprised at how inexpensively I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnhoyle.com/poulton-imaging/</link>
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