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		<title>The Neanderthal Predation Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments on Danny Vendramini's theory about Neanderthal Predation as the driving force for the evolution of modern humans.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/02/16/the-neanderthal-predation-theory/</link>
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		<title>What to do about Internet Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet advertising is in a pathetic state at present, with revenues declining for publishers, and angry consumers who feel that ads are too intrusive. Here are some ideas about how to solve this problem.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/01/04/what-to-do-about-internet-advertising/</link>
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		<title>How to Cook Indian Style Lentils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a recipe I&#8217;ve been using for a while. I sort of came up with it on my own, after tinkering with various recipes I found on the web. It&#8217;s very similar to a lot of &#8220;tempered&#8221; dal recipes found in cookbooks, but the spices have been adjusted to my own tastes.
If you look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/12/20/how-to-cook-indian-style-lentils/</link>
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		<title>Changing the cache location in Chrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would you want to do this?
Because you’re using Windows. Because file fragmentation is a problem with every version of Windows, and it inexorably slows down your computer the longer you use it. Because browser caches are some of the highest file activity regions on your disk, which means they make the disk fragment very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/11/07/changing-the-cache-location-in-chrome/</link>
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		<title>Fixing the Start Menu in Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the start button in Windows 7, specially the search feature and the ability to pin frequently used programs to both the start menu and the task bar (just right click the icon and choose “pin” or “unpin”). In Windows XP, I had all my programs on the start menu sorted into directories, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/11/07/fixing-the-start-menu-in-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>Experiences with Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently switched from Windows XP to Windows 7. This was a big switch for me, since I had avoided Vista, so I went pretty much from an 8 year old 32 bit operating system, to the newest 64 bit OS from Microsoft. As you can imagine, it has been a learning experience.
My main reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/11/07/experiences-with-windows-7/</link>
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		<title>Recipe: Pork and Rice with Paprika</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have some basic recipes in this blog &#8211; here&#8217;s how to cook rice, and here&#8217;s one for making Indian style black beans. It&#8217;s my attempt to make cooking approachable to someone completely unfamiliar with cooking. This is the state in which I found myself some years ago, when I first moved out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/09/20/recipe-pork-and-rice-with-paprika/</link>
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		<title>Cooking and Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This line of thought was provoked by an article I read talking about the importance of cooking food in the development of modern humans.
I’ve come across a number of articles that talk about the importance of a change in diet in human evolution. The theory is that human diet suddenly improved dramatically, and this marked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/09/20/cooking-and-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Time Trax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember watching the TV sci-fi series “Time Trax” when it was first aired in 1993. Back then, I thought it was great. It lasted for two seasons, about 40 episodes. The plot line involved a cop (played by Dale Midkiff) from the year 2193 who travels back in time,  pursuing criminals from his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/08/18/time-trax/</link>
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		<title>Indian Style Black Beans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black beans, or turtle beans as they are sometimes called, are my favorite kind of beans. I was in Miami for a while, and ate a lot of Cuban black beans and rice, which is delicious. I  like the beans + rice combination, since it&#8217;s a great protein source, and the beans and rice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/08/08/indian-style-black-beans/</link>
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