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		<title>Celebrating 15 years. One more year until this site can drive.</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/03/30/general/15th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's that time of the decade again. Every March in a year divisible by 5, I reach a nice, round milestone. This time, it's 15. Yes, that's right: It's the 15th anniversary of Jammer's Reviews being on the web.
I guess technically it's only the fourth anniversary of &#34;Jammer's Reviews,&#34; since the 10 years before that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jammer&#039;s Reviews &amp; Blog go mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/12/09/general/jammer-goes-mobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my ongoing quest to keep up with the times, I've installed a mobile edition for Jammer's Reviews &#038; Blog, which is a version of the site intended to be friendly to on-the-go handheld devices like smart phones.

You can now read Jammer's Reviews &#038; Blog on your mobile device.

This initiative was prompted largely by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The difficulty of overcoming inertia</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/10/21/general/overcoming-inertia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that's been abundantly clear to me about &#34;maintaining&#34; (*) my review site and blog this year: Inertia is a bitch.
* I feel the word &#34;maintaining&#34; requires quotes at this moment, seeing as Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox have been running from an explosion on my home page for more than three months now [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jammer&#039;s Blog, the reboot</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/06/03/general/blog-reboot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/06/03/general/blog-reboot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, when I launched IDWID, the first incarnation of my foray into the blog world, I had a mission. That mission was: (1) Here's a blog where I can write more stuff, and (2) there are no parameters to the mission, because It Do What It Do [TM].
IDWID was more or less conceived [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>All quiet on the IDWID front (2009 edition)</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/03/10/general/idwid-quiet-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/03/10/general/idwid-quiet-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a surprise, but there's been little action here at IDWID since I've been back to my regular reviewing duties on Battlestar Galactica over at Jammer's Reviews. This blog isn't dead. It's just inactive for the time being. At some point, it'll be back. There might even be some changes in store for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All quiet on the IDWID front</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/04/12/general/idwid-quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDWID has been less busy of late. There are a few reasons for that. The first is, of course, the return of Battlestar Galactica reviews, which will be occupying much of my writing time for the next couple of months.
The second is that I'm in the process of buying a house, which, as you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In like a lion, out like a lamb</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my frustrated complaining a few weeks ago over the unending snow and cold, the weather immediately turned around. I complained, and it hasn't snowed since, and the weather has been consistently in the the 30s, 40s, 50s, even 60s. That's March for you. Is winter finally over? Well, the second I say that, I'll [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>2007: It&#039;s a wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/12/31/general/2007-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/12/31/general/2007-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick hello to wish everyone a safe and happy new year. As the year winds down its final hours, I reflect upon this inaugural year of IDWID with my usual mantra:
IDWID: It do what it do. Especially in the final hours of the year. 
Looking ahead to 2008, you can expect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stolen newspaper saga update</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/29/general/stolen-newspaper-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/29/general/stolen-newspaper-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted a couple weeks ago, I've had problems with someone in my building regularly stealing my Sunday newspaper. After months of putting up with it, I decided to take some action and call them out on it. 
Well, I know they saw the note, because the paper had been moved halfway down the hallway [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>So you&#039;re the son of a bitch who&#039;s been stealing my newspaper</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/16/general/stolen-newspaper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/16/general/stolen-newspaper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nerve of people. This just plain pisses me off. Every week &#8212; or close to it &#8212; one of my neighbors steals my Sunday newspaper, unless I get up early enough to take it before they can. Sometimes they leave me the front section and steal the rest of it (including all the ad [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>An IDWID sports discussion (mostly Chicago)</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/04/general/chicago-sports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/10/04/general/chicago-sports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to sports, I don't write about them. It's probably for the same reason that I don't write about music. While I enjoy music and sports, I don't feel that they fall within my area of expertise, so I'll leave the analysis to people better suited to it. But I do enjoy watching [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The case of the vanishing furniture</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/09/17/general/vanishing-furniture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/09/17/general/vanishing-furniture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I had this dream that I came home, opened my door, and my living room had been completely emptied. As in, everything. Gone. Entertainment center, TV, DVD shelf, pictures off the wall, all my furniture, my filing cabinets with my most important documents. All completely gone as if no one had lived [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wow, your Schwetty balls are delicious</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/05/25/general/schwetty-balls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/05/25/general/schwetty-balls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, my girlfriend Kathy and I made Oreo balls. Saying that sounds slightly wrong, and I can't help but be reminded of that classic SNL sketch where Alec Baldwin touts his famously delicious Schwetty balls. 
Oreo balls are actually a tasty dessert treat that I first had about a year ago when Kathy's sister [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Regarding comic strips (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/27/general/regarding-comic-strips-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/27/general/regarding-comic-strips-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This entry is continued from part 1.
Going up the page in reverse order of my daily comic-strip reading, what's next?
Zits by Jerry Scott &#038; Jim Borgman: What's not to like? Zits has got to be among the funniest of current comic strips. We've all been teenagers, so we can all relate. Zits is current, fresh, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Regarding comic strips (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/26/general/regarding-comic-strips-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/26/general/regarding-comic-strips-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are those habits that you persist in continuing out of what seems like sheer obligation. Obligation to what, I don't know. Perhaps it's an obligation to continue merely because you've been doing it for so long already. That's a lame-ass reason, I know. 
For me, one of those habits is reading certain comic strips [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welcome, Jammer&#039;s Reviews readers</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/19/general/welcome-to-idwid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/19/general/welcome-to-idwid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is where I go public with a blog, one of those things that's mandated by what the marketing gurus in the online industry call &#34;Web 2.0.&#34; Apparently, Jammer's Reviews was so Web 1.0 until today.
First of all: What is IDWID? You could say it's a way of life. Or an inside joke. Or a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>From IDWID to IDWID: No hard feelings?</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/11/general/idwid-to-idwid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/11/general/idwid-to-idwid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I registered IDWID.com and ItDoWhatItDo.com back in October, it literally was for the reason: &#34;Because I can.&#34; That and it only cost $9 per domain. You can see the whole story in the IDWID history. 
I just did a Google search on &#34;IDWID,&#34; and much to my surprise, I see that there's a consulting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Definition and history of &#039;It do what it do&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/07/general/idwid-defined/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/07/general/idwid-defined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, just what do we mean by &#34;It do what it do&#34;?
Back in October, my IDWID cohort, Michael Freimann, definied &#34;It Do What It Do&#34; as the following:

For too long, media attention has been given to the overachievers or those who stand in the spotlight. The irony of this, of course, is that it is [...]]]></description>
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