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	<description>Politically-correct?  Not a chance in Hell!</description>
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		<title>Why fight when you can easily switch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since converting four of my forum sites over to Invision Power Board in early November, I&#8217;ve been very pleased with the way IP.Board is working on my sites.
It took a few days to sort out where everything is located on both the front end and back end of the sites, but the learning curve was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long, vBulletin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be seeing you around, vBulletin.  It&#8217;s been real.  It&#8217;s been fun.  It has not, however, been real fun.
I opened my first discussion forum in August of 2004, running phpBB2 software.  And while it worked, I was very aware the platform was not exactly secure.  On 11 February 2005, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeermel.com/so-long-vbulletin/</link>
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		<title>It ain&#8217;t [America] no mo&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been wondering about how your civil liberties are being stripped from you, Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. of the Reston, VA police department has the answer for you.

Thanks for telling us the truth, Officer Cheeks.  We&#8217;ve suspected it for years and you&#8217;ve made it clear.


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		<link>http://www.mikeermel.com/it-aint-america-no-mo/</link>
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		<title>Living large with Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The change-over to Linux operating systems is now complete.
As I mentioned earlier, I now have a Dell PC dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10, aka Karmic Koala.  Karmic is still in Beta, however I have found the Beta release to be steady as a rock and I&#8217;m not seeing constant update.  That leaves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mikeermel.com/living-large-with-linux/</link>
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		<title>Back to Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple years back, I toyed with some Ubuntu Linux installations on a couple of PC&#8217;s.  I liked the idea of getting away from Windows and everything associated with it.  My first Ubuntu installation was 7.04, a.k.a. Feisty Fawn.  It worked pretty well and I managed to get it all running with [...]]]></description>
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