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	<title>Tell them, my song.</title>
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	<description>The personal blog of Winfried Maus, born in 1970, thinking ever since.</description>
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		<title>Returning the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just clicked my way through the Apple Online Store: I&#8217;m returning my iPad. Why? It&#8217;s hard to find an answer to the question which space an iPad can usefully occupy when you already have an iMac, an iPhone and a notebook. Especially at the price of an iPad, you better come up with that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downgraded my iPhone 3G from iOS 4 to 3.1.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally had enough of the sluggish performance of my iPhone 3G after the update iOS 4. It took Navigon ages to start and even the iPod app only crawled. I followed this guide to downgrade the iPhone to 3.1.3:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/07/how-to-downgrade-iphone-3g-from-ios-4-to-iphone-os-3-1-3.html
Actually, my phone is still syncing while I&#8217;m typing this, but it appears that so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MyPad: Two days with an Apple iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plants vs Zombies convinced me that there are apps and games that are much more fun to be used via a touch interface, and the small screen real estate of my iPhone 3G convinced me that the iPad, although it is basically just a large iPod Touch, might have a place in my digital life.
Enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle&#8217;s Java patent suit against Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick comment for the record:
Some Open Source fanatics have always spread the FUD that developers should not use Mono because Microsoft could club their projects and products with their patents for C# and .NET. After Sun put most of Java under the GPL, those very same people in their infinite wisdom advised developers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/?p=784</link>
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		<title>Surveillance cameras and Google Streetview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The very same fraction that says &#8220;I&#8217;ve got nothing to hide&#8221; when the so-called authorities install surveillance cameras everywhere now all of a sudden has an issue with Google Streetview.
What&#8217;s behind this schizophrenic attitude? Are we afraid of our government, but we&#8217;re not afraid of Google because that&#8217;s just a company and we&#8217;ll show them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading on the iPhone: Kindle vs iBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, I finished reading my first novel on the iPhone 3G: Michael Crichton&#8217;s &#8220;Pirate Latitudes&#8221;. A nice book by itself, think of it as &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221; without Jack Sparrow, the humor and most of the special effects. Still, it&#8217;s a nice and entertaining treasure hunt story in the tradition of &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/?p=781</link>
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		<title>What happened that IT bores me so much nowadays?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was twelve or thirteen when I got my first programmable pocket computer and shortly after that a Sinclair ZX81 with the unbelievable amount of one kilobyte of system memory. I fell in love with BASIC, I fell in love with creating worlds in the BASIC programming language.
Years later, after I finished the Gymnasium, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plants vs Zombies</title>
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I love this little casual game. I first bought it for my iPhone, and when I became addicted, I also downloaded the Mac version. It&#8217;s also been ported to the PC, the iPad and Flash so that it can be played on the web. PopCap made sure that there&#8217;s no escape.
I prefer playing it on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Wake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally: After several months of poor or mediocre releases, there&#8217;s finally a new blockbuster game worth playing!


Alan Wake is more like an interactive horror movie than it is a third person shooter. It&#8217;s got great atmosphere, a twisted multi-layered and well written and narrated story line, it pushes the graphics capabilities of the Xbox 360 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wmaus.net/wordpress/?p=768</link>
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		<title>Why programmers have long hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a response to a post on the BlitzMax programmers forum where somebody wondered about the old stereotype that programmers tend to grow their hair long. Since I&#8217;ve verbally talked about this topic so often in the past that it got tiresome, I thought I finally write about it here.
 
If you want to [...]]]></description>
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