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		<title>Civilization 5 Early Feature Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This started as an email to Omar, but it quickly grew too epic and I decided it needed a blog post of its own.
You see, Omar linked me to some exciting feature announcements about the upcoming Civilization 5. He briefly mentioned his ambivalence at the new developments, but I found myself unable to be so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MongoMapper with Formtastic: Almost Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally dipped my toes into MongoDB last night after catching some inspiration from the Ruby community. But I hit a basic snag doing something that would be Really Freaking Cool if it worked (and by all accounts it SHOULD work!), so in lieu of doing any real work yet I thought I&#8217;d post and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Tag Cloud for #Code2009 Hashtag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Just found this nice dynamic chart created by @casron.
There&#8217;s a trending topic for programmers on Twitter right now: #Code2009. The idea is that you tweet and list all of the languages and environments that you&#8217;ve worked in this year. Seems like a great, simple way to quickly reflect on your past year and plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lorennorman.com/development/twitter-tag-cloud-for-code2009-hashtag/</link>
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		<title>Atlanta Javascript Meetup Cappuccino Talk, 12/10/09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation on Cappuccino to the Atlanta Javascript Meetup on Thursday, December 10th at Ignition Alley. It was a lot of fun! We had a great turnout and I met a lot of passionate developers, despite clashing with the PHP, Python, and Cocoa meetups. In fact, I understand the Cocoaheads meetup actually included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lorennorman.com/web-development/javascript/atlanta-javascript-meetup-cappuccino-talk-121009/</link>
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		<title>Actionscript 3 Filter Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into performance issues while trying to use a filter on the DisplayList in ActionScript 3 this week. I wanted a nice, gradient dropshadow on a large UI component, but loading in a big, expensive Bitmap image to do the trick just didn&#8217;t seem appropriate.  So I decided to use the built-in GlowFilter class.
Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Startup to Free Agent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We closed the doors to the Lab this week.  Looking at the emptied space was pretty sad, but we have nothing but fond memories of the place.  So many great people and projects graced our makeshift office during its brief existence this year, and I&#8217;m grateful for everyone&#8217;s support.
We simply ran out of time as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>START Atlanta Kickoff Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9 out of 10 Atlanta entrepreneurs agree, Atlanta&#8217;s investment ecosystem is sorely lacking in the area we need it most: small investments in good ideas.  We aren&#8217;t talking about millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars; that&#8217;s WAY more than most of us need!  We also aren&#8217;t talking about mature businesses with great projections; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy busy busy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry i haven&#8217;t been blogging!  Lots of things are coming down the pipe right now, they&#8217;ve just got me too busy to blog. I may as well let you in on them, anyway:

 we launched CoworkAtlanta.com, a project for creating a coworking space for Atlanta 
we&#8217;re developing the &#8220;World&#8217;s First Video-Only Dating Site&#8221;, and we&#8217;re going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation in Wisconsin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cara and I are currently on vacation to visit her family in Shawano, WI.  We&#8217;ll be staying in a beautiful lake house, with the weather feeling mighty fine compared to back home in ATL.  I&#8217;m going to try to post videos from as many places as possible during our adventure.
Here we are in Cincinnati on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lorennorman.com/real-life/vacation-in-wisconsin/</link>
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		<title>Ride Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple videos of me sitting in the bed of Chad&#8217;s truck on the way home from the lab.  Nothing terribly interesting, just playing with my new 3G wireless card and data plan.  I really need to bring my camcorder so i can take better action shots on the way home (or broadcast [...]]]></description>
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