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		<title>My iPhone, a Cracked Screen, and Successful &#8220;Surgery&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of February I inadvertently knocked my iPhone off of a countertop. When I picked it back up, I realized that tragedy had struck&#8230;the screen on my iPhone was severely cracked. Although I was extremely disheartened about the incident, I was thankful that the digitizer and the lcd   were okay and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Plan, Poorly Executed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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I realize it&#8217;s just a little sign for a basketball tournament. But, is it really unreasonable to expect a sign that is hung within a school to contain the correct spelling of such an important word? I certainly don&#8217;t advocate reliance upon word processor program spell checkers, but at least they will alert you that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Faux Pas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on Facebook this morning and I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out the best way to use it. I think the best thing to do is just let it speak for itself:

Definition of Faux Pas:
(fō pä&#8217;)
A social blunder.
[French : faux, false + pas, step.]
Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Their, They&#8217;re, and There</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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&#8220;So tired of rich people forking over $6k to cry at #TED for 3 days a year. Their so moved but their just their to do business networking.&#8221;
This was actually tweeted on Sunday by someone who has almost 95,000 people that follow their updates on Twitter. Unbelievable! He&#8217;s zero for three in using the correct word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scohol Crossing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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This can&#8217;t possibly be good news for that school district&#8230;
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		<title>The Ol&#8217; Spellchecker Strikes Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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This past Saturday I received a letter from a prominent university in Spokane, WA. The letter, on official university letterhead, detailed a piano sale from their music department. The letter was fine&#8230;until the very last sentence. At that point, they blew it.
Credit cads? Sigh&#8230;
This is the problem with relying on a spellchecker. The word &#8216;cads&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Error Just Popped Up on My Screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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My laptop ran one of its annoying updates the other day and this unsightly little dialog box appeared on my screen. My initial reaction was, &#8220;good grief, I can&#8217;t believe they missed that mistake.&#8221; My second reaction was, &#8220;hey, I need to save that for the blog!&#8221; So, I quickly did a screen capture and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Apostrophe Strikes Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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I had alluded to the need to capture this picture in a previous post. Thanks to my sister-in-law, I now have a picture of this mistake (thanks Tina!).
Rabbit Trail: Why did Tina have the opportunity to get this picture for me? Unfortunately, she had to go to this grocery store to request a refund for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yer Now Edumacated!</title>
		<link>http://www.mcwriters.com/2008/06/09/yer-now-edumacated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimMc</dc:creator>
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Why is proofreading important? Here’s a great example of why you need to double check your work. It’s also a good example of a poor printing company. A company who produces material for other organizations really should be responsible enough to double check the content they are printing. Five minutes of time reviewing the project [...]]]></description>
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