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	<title>Allen Day's Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog</link>
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		<title>Sartorial crash course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I&#8217;m not claiming to be an expert, or even of above average knowledge when it comes to clothing.  I have noticed, however, that I&#8217;ve acquired enough knowledge over the last couple of years to be above-average in my peer group.  Constructive feedback welcome.
I&#8217;m approaching this from a technical angle.  There are a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2010/01/31/sartorial-crash-course/</link>
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		<title>8 Keys to Effective Crowdsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to effective crowdsourcing is effective communication.  You communicate with your crowdsourced workers so that you can train them.  Training has a measurable cost, and you want to minimize this cost to make most effective use of your time and your budget.
Consider the situation when you&#8217;re in a professional position, or the flipside and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2010/01/30/8-keys-to-effective-crowdsourcing/</link>
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		<title>Google/HTC Nexus One Unboxing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2010/01/15/googlehtc-nexus-one-unboxing/</link>
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		<title>How to fix the meetup.com broken exported calendars.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of meetup.com, but they&#8217;re so tragically unhip when it comes to mashups/integration/web 2.0.  One of my biggest gripes until about 6 months ago was that they had no facility (besides API) for exporting a calendar of meetups to my calendar app (I use Google Calendar), or any other calendar app for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2010/01/15/how-to-fix-the-meetupcom-broken-exported-calendars/</link>
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		<title>G1 cupcake upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m using a T-mobile Android G1 on AT&#038;T network.  I don&#8217;t have a T-mobile SIM at all, and I wasn&#8217;t getting the Cupcake upgrade through the system menu, either when using AT&#038;T EDGE or using WiFi.
So I followed this guide: http://www.androidandme.com/2009/05/guides/beginners-guide-for-rooting-your-android-g1-to-install-cupcake/
Worked great and easy/no-hassle to follow for an Android n00b like myself.  Best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2009/05/17/g1-cupcake-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Standalone BitTorrent Checksum Verification Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing some scripts to let me automate the downloading and seeding of torrents.  The idea is to have torrents pulled in from RSS or a screenscrape (much as Azureus does this, but I want to script everything with Python/Mainline BitTorrent, bash, and Perl), then to sit on the torrents for a day or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2009/04/20/standalone-bittorrent-checksum-verification-tool/</link>
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		<title>Synthetic GFF Dataset for Genome Browser Benchmark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I deployed a Gbrowse/Chado installation last week at Dow Agrosciences.  It got me thinking about how slow and basic the searches are with the Bio::DB::Das::Chado* adaptor, and wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to use SOLR here?
I made up a test dataset of gene/mRNA/exon 3-tiered feature groups by permuting some gene model data from the knownGene annotation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2009/04/07/synthetic-gff-dataset-for-genome-browser-benchmark/</link>
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		<title>Taste item-item recommender example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I threw together a Mahout/Taste based item-item based recommender last night.

	public static void itemItemRecommendations&#40;String path, String file&#41; &#123;
		File f = new File&#40;path, file&#41;;
	    try &#123;
			DataModel model = new FileDataModel&#40;f&#41;;
			model.refresh&#40;null&#41;;
		    ItemSimilarity itemSimilarity = new LogLikelihoodSimilarity&#40;model&#41;;
		    ItemBasedRecommender itemRecommender = new GenericItemBasedRecommender&#40;model, itemSimilarity&#41;;
		    for &#40; Item [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2009/02/11/taste-item-item-recommender-example/</link>
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		<title>Google Android G1 APN Settings for AT&amp;T / Cingular, First Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got an unlocked T-Mobile G1 today.  Woo.  There is a bunch of mis-information out there on blogs and forum about how to get the phone set up.  Here&#8217;s the real deal, I found these settings on Piaw&#8217;s Blog.

Name: whatever_you_want_the_name_to_be
APN: wap.cingular
Username: wap@cingulargprs.com
Password: cingular1
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410

Now, on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2008/12/31/google-android-g1-apn-settings-for-att-cingular-first-impressions/</link>
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		<title>EveryDNS &#8211; free DNS service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.everydns.com
Found this today, and it works as advertised.  Need to look more closely, but with this I think I can stop paying dyndns.com $30/year/domain for custom DNS.
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		<link>http://www.spicylogic.com/allenday/blog/2008/12/10/everydns-free-dns-service/</link>
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