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		<title>English is Tough Stuff!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by G. Nolst Trenito, 1870 &#8211; 1946. These verses were designed to help multi-national personnel at NATO headquarters discard their accents. After trying them, a Frenchman said he&#8217;d prefer 6 months at hard labor to reading 6 lines aloud. This has floated around for a long time, since before the Web. I first saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/09/english-is-tough-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Unknown Kyrie by Palestrina?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to identify a Kyrie that I sang a long time ago (maybe 1972), but I don&#8217;t have the sheet music for it. I remember it as being by Palestrina, so I&#8217;ve searched every Kyrie from every Mass I can find by Palestrina on cpdl.org, and I have not been able to identify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/08/unknown-kyrie-by-palestrina/</link>
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		<title>My Working Set of jQuery Plugins (and some Other Hacks) by DFF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the second installment in my Working Set series: my standard set of jQuery plugins. I&#8217;ll also include a few other bits of code I use occasionally that are not in plugins. I make no claims about these being the best or anything like that, but this is a really useful, robust set of plugins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Working Set of WordPress Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the real strengths of WordPress is the incredible ecosystem of plugins that extends the platform in all directions. You see the articles daily&#8212;yet another review of plugins of some type, oftentimes overlapping or suspiciously similar. I suspect I&#8217;m like everybody else, since I go and check them out. I&#8217;ve gotten pretty efficient at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/05/working-set-wordpress-plugins/</link>
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		<title>Help Us Find the Aliens&#8212;Before They Find Us!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read some welcome news today about the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life (SETI) project. They have started pointing a radio telescope in West Virginia at a list of stellar systems that are likely to have planets within habitable parameters (between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius). They have 1235 planets on the list, identified by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/05/help-us-find-the-aliensbefore-they-find-us/</link>
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		<title>Calla Lilies in the Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was rummaging through some photos from last year, and I stumbled across this shot of a bunch of Calla lilies growing up out of the water in the pond at Kelley House Museum in Mendocino. The Kelley House pond was built by William Kelly in the 1850s for his kids. In recent years, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/03/calla-lilies-in-the-pond/</link>
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		<title>Simple Enhancement to SimpleDrop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve looked around at many dropdown menu packages that are out there, and I&#8217;ve been using a very simple implementation called SimpleDrop from Javascript Array. SimpleDrop does everything I need: you use an unordered list for the menu items, include a tiny bit of jQuery, and set the styling for your menu. SimpleDrop has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2011/02/simple-enhancement-to-simpledrop/</link>
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		<title>Acafellas are contestants in Bay Area Harmony Festival!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, somebody in the group submitted a CD of our music to the Bay Area Harmony Festival. This is a regional competition, with the national competition in May. Groups come from all over Northern California for the Bay Area contest, and we were one of nine groups selected to compete. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2010/03/acafellas-are-contestants-in-bay-area-harmony-festival/</link>
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		<title>My Guidebook was #7 seller in 2009!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Front Cover of Mendocino Outdoors, now in its third edition.I found out the other day that my guidebook, Mendocino Outdoors, was the #7 top-selling book for 2009 at Gallery Bookshop, our most excellent local bookstore. Gallery Books sells a lot of books about the local area, and I&#8217;m proud to see that my book is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.monolithdesign.com/2009/12/my-guidebook-was-7-seller-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>First Light on MonolithDesign.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been creating WordPress sites for other people for some years now, and never had the time and opportunity to redo my own site in WordPress. Since I need a platform for experimentation, I can just experiment on myself. One of the planned features importing my Web Design class from the static HTML pages [...]]]></description>
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