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	<description>Weblog of Derek Bassett</description>
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		<title>Star Wars Cinematic Trailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you might have seen this video last year as a promotional video for the up-coming star wars mmorpg, Star Wars: the Old Republic by Bioware. I have little to say about the game because I doubt that I will ever in my life play a mmorpg. I find the concept of having to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=526</link>
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		<title>Brontë Sisters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is it I have never seen this before? This is totally awesome.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=522</link>
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		<title>Pseudo-spam comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My blog, since it has a posting frequency and readership in the single digits, doesn&#8217;t generate a lot of traffic or original viewers. But like any blog, comment spam is a continuous problem. I use the Akismet and WP-SpamFree plugins which seem to do a very good job of keeping out the spam, even without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=519</link>
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		<title>Vampire Lameness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this rant over at i09 on why all vampire fiction is is completely lame now. I have to agree with pretty much all of it. I find it interesting that the author never even once mentions Twilight, although she does mention sparkly vampires. It&#8217;s more of the entire genre (and yes, there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=510</link>
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		<title>Trackmania: the Successor to Stunts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not recall the PC game Stunts back from the early 90&#8242;s. It was a fairly basic driving game, but the fun part was it had a track editor that allowed you to make your own tracks that you could share and race on. I remember being stuck in the back of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=507</link>
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		<title>Internet Vigilantism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyber-bullying and such has recently come into the consciousness and lexicon of the internet-using west. Incidents like the Star Wars kid or more tragically Megan Meier have made us more aware and wary of what us and our children are doing online. In East Asia though, there is another type of cyber-bullying that hasn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=498</link>
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		<title>Approximation in Science and Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting skills learned as an engineer or a scientist is the art/skill (it&#8217;s really both) of being able to make reasonable order-of-magnitude estimates. Using a combination of knowledge, common sense, reasoning, intuition, and some quick hand calculations, a skilled engineer/scientist will often try and estimate the critical parameter or result of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=479</link>
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		<title>Looking up Ancient Japanese/Chinese Script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my never ending quest to understand a little more of the Japanese language (and never succeeding because I never invest enough time in it), one thing that consistently frustrates me is old and ancient script. In the title wrote Chinese/Japanese because 1.) The Japanese kanji come from Chinese as everyone knows, and 2.) For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=463</link>
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		<title>Japanese X-men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any geek that grew up in the 80&#8242;s or 90&#8242;s probably remembers the X-men cartoon that was on during the 90&#8242;s. The animation wasn&#8217;t all that great, but it was still entertaining for this teenager at the time. The intro here may bring back a few memories: I just saw something that blew my mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=453</link>
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		<title>L. B. Rayne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you see something on the interblags that is so awesome you have to share it, even though everyone has probably already seen it before you. This is one of those things. Yesterday I discovered the music videos of L. B. Rayne. He&#8217;s like some kind of parody/homage to 80&#8242;s adventure movies and electronic music. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=448</link>
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		<title>Fractal Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I wrote a post where I talked about taking the imaginary number i to it&#8217;s own power an infinite amount of times, essentially . I showed numerically at least that it converges upon a single value in the complex plane, but then I speculated about what would happen if I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=432</link>
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		<title>Tower of Hanoi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was chatting with my brother Porter the other day and he told me how he made a Tower of Hanoi game for his children to play with. It&#8217;s a fairly simple game with a well-known binary sequence to solving it, in fact it&#8217;s one of the few puzzle games where the God&#8217;s Algorithm (a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=325</link>
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		<title>RSS feeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overall, I consider myself to be fairly tech-savvy. I program in multiple languages for my research (right now: python and MATLAB, though I have used C++), I use both windows and linux systems (though I&#8217;m still not entirely comfortable in linux I&#8217;m getting there), and when I have computer problems both software and hardware I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=319</link>
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		<title>Japanese Light Novels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I enjoy about going back to Japan for a few weeks each summer is that it allows me go to to the bookstore and purchase some new reading material in Japanese. Now my Japanese is decent but not great (I would guess if I took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=306</link>
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		<title>Translation Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a speaker of Japanese and English, I find this hilarious. Translation Party is a site that uses the Google automatic translation to hilarious effect. Now the basis is nothing new. Ever since Babelfish came out, people have been using it to translate phrases from one language to another and then back again to hilarious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=300</link>
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		<title>Satogaeri to Imazu, Part 2: The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Except for my quest to find an internet connection, the first few days here in Imazu were pretty uneventful. Usually we’re too jet-lagged to do much anyway, so it’s fine with us. Yesterday though, we took a trip to Fukui Prefecture with Ryoko’s aunt and uncle. I’ve blogged a little about Fukui Prefecture before a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Satogaeri to Imazu Part. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satogaeri (里帰り) means ‘returning to your hometown’, and is used for when you go back to your hometown to visit your family. Ryoko is from a small town of Imazu on the northeast shore of Lake Biwa, about an hour out of Kyoto by train (or about 2 hours if driving). So, I’m stuck here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=289</link>
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		<title>Anime Recommendations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryoko and I have recently just finished watching an anime series, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It&#8217;s called Seirei no Moribito, which translates as Guardian of the Sacred Spirit. It takes place in a fantasy world that is strikingly similar to Heian-era Japan. This shouldn&#8217;t seem too surprising, since most of Western fantasy takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Review: Variable Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Liberal Arts library at UT for the first time in probably 2 years the other day, since I was looking for a book that Porter had recommended to me: The Name of the Wind. The card catalog said there was a copy on the shelf, but when I hunted it down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Middle-Earth RPG, continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I have 6 interested people in playing. Five of them have made requests for a character, and the sixth I am still waiting on. There is of course the 6th character that hasn&#8217;t been requested left, but in case Chris would like one of the other characters too I&#8217;m going to wait before I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.moroha.net/blog/?p=259</link>
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