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		<title>So this is what it&#8217;s like&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last 48 hours have been fairly instructive for me as a blogger. Since WordPress linked to my post about DIY home renovation angst on their &#8220;Freshly Pressed&#8221; featured blogs page, I&#8217;ve received more web traffic in two days than I&#8217;ll probably ever get on this blog again. The number of comments I got on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=429&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2010/07/11/so-this-is-what-its-like/</link>
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		<title>To DIY, or Not to DIY?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've developed a rule of thumb: with proper tools and plenty of research — but no previous experience — I can complete a project up to about 70–80 percent of the quality I'd expect from a contractor, in about three to four times the amount of time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=401&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2010/07/08/to-diy-or-not-to-diy/</link>
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		<title>The Parking Nightmare that is St. Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Paul's parking restrictions make about as much sense as a Samuel Beckett play.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=365&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2010/05/21/the-parking-nightmare-that-is-st-paul/</link>
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		<title>In Praise of Free Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early December, after reading about the ten-thousandth magazine article explaining the global financial crisis in terms that were still totally incomprehensible to me, I decided it was time for me to learn something about how the financial system works. Not knowing where else to turn, I decided to check out Open Yale Courses, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=311&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2010/02/06/in-praise-of-free-education/</link>
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		<title>The Economics of Homebrewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June, my friend Garrett and I started brewing our own beer. In retrospect, I&#8217;m not sure why. I know it&#8217;s something we had been talking about for months, if not years. We both loved beer, to be sure. And we liked the idea that if we got good enough at brewing we could experiment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=173&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/11/17/the-economics-of-homebrewing/</link>
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		<title>Another &#8216;Wall Street&#8217; That&#8217;s Ripping Us Off&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One advantage of living in St. Paul is the parking situation: since there are never any people here, you can basically park wherever you want. Even in Lowertown — the one part of downtown St. Paul that shows regular signs of human activity after 5 p.m. — you can usually find an open meter space. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=209&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/10/28/another-wall-street-thats-ripping-us-off/</link>
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		<title>I Have Found a Use for All Those Yellow Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows phone books are basically worthless. I share local blogger Ed Kohler&#8217;s keen dislike for the things, which have basically been obsolete since the day my grandmother learned how to use Google. Yesterday, however, my friend Garrett and I discovered a use for them that doesn&#8217;t even necessitate taking them out of the bag. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=157&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/07/06/i-have-found-a-use-for-all-those-yellow-pages/</link>
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		<title>Happy Independence Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a nice used Canon EOS 20D from a coworker last week, and decided I&#8217;d give it a spin by photographing St. Paul&#8217;s fireworks display from the Smith Avenue Bridge — which I consider to be the best Fourth of July fireworks vantage point in the Twin Cities. The results are a cut above [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=352&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/07/05/happy-independence-day/</link>
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		<title>My New Blog (Sort Of)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I just switched Web hosting providers (I know, I know. Do you really need to pay for Web hosting for a blog nowadays? Probably not.), I&#8217;m using the occasion to redo the design of my blog and hopefully add a few functional improvements. My intention is to start blogging more this summer, now that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=148&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/06/12/my-new-blog-sort-of/</link>
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		<title>Hot Rod Day at the Capitol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the fringe benefits of working at the Legislature is having a front-row seat to all the activity that goes on in and around the Capitol Building. Usually it&#8217;s some kind of protest, but there are a couple of unique events that happen every year that always make me stop and look. Yesterday, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintpaulitan.com&amp;blog=7154426&amp;post=139&amp;subd=saintpaulitan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://saintpaulitan.com/2009/04/29/hot-rod-day-at-the-capitol-2/</link>
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