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	<description>Rants and Raves from South Kingstown, RI and sometimes Arlington, VA</description>
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		<title>Of Versed and Foot Surgery</title>
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About a week ago, I underwent corrective foot surgery. Since I&#8217;ve never had surgery of any kind before, I had plenty to be worried about. But what freaked me out most of all was what my friend Gareth referred to as &#8220;alien abduction juice,&#8221; a component of the anesthesia that not only renders me relaxed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/12/30/of-versed-and-foot-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Sample iPhone (Wi-Fi) to Arduino (Ethernet) app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired in part by a recent discussion with some fellow makers about getting the iPhone to talk to stuff, I built a sample iPhone app using PhoneGap that lets you tell an Arduino to take a given pin high or low. It&#8217;s pretty basic: in the iPhone app, you type in the IP address and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/11/01/sample-iphone-wi-fi-to-arduino-ethernet-app/</link>
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		<title>Maker Faire RI this week</title>
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I&#8217;m thrilled to be part of the group of people organizing Maker Faire RI. We&#8217;ve just launched our new web site, just in time for all our workshops and events leading up to the main event on Saturday, September 19. See you there!
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		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/09/15/maker-faire-ri-this-week/</link>
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		<title>South Kingstown Town Council votes against transparency and citizen participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news from Andrew Gilmartin, who in his most recent posting to South Kingstown, RI Now, writes:
Yesterday night the Town of South Kingstown Council voted against the “Automatic Open Records” petition funding the “Automatic Open Records” Committee outlined in my letter to the Town Council on March 30, 2009. The general tenor of the comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/04/28/town-of-south-kingstown-votes-against-transparency-and-citizen-participation/</link>
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		<title>South Kingstown, RI Now &#8211; advocating for local open government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really appreciate the work that Andrew Gilmartin&#8217;s been doing with his attempts to bring my home town&#8217;s government into the 21st century. His goal is to increase public participation in the Town of South Kingstown, and to this end, he&#8217;s petitioning the town to adopt modern technology for publishing information and inviting the community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/04/19/south-kingstown-ri-now-advocating-for-local-open-government/</link>
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		<title>Inauguration Posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be posting from Washington, DC over the next few days using whatever means I have available. In addition to this blog, check me out on flickr and Twitter.
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		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2009/01/18/inauguration-posts/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft paid me $144 to search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not yet, but the money&#8217;s coming in less than 60 days. As David Pogue has reported, Microsoft really wants you to use its search engine:

Until the end of the year, you’ll get points every time you use Microsoft’s Live.com service. Pile up enough of them, and you can buy free music downloads, gadgets, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/10/09/microsoft-paid-me-144-to-search/</link>
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		<title>The MAKE Magazine table at The Last HOPE</title>
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I attended The Last HOPE recently and worked the MAKE table there. It was tremendous fun; we had all sorts of kits and books and magazines and t-shirts for sale, and a lot of interesting folks came by with interesting questions and ideas. Video &#124; Flickr photos
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		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/07/27/the-make-magazine-table-at-the-last-hope/</link>
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		<title>Providence Geek Dinner-tomorrow, June 18</title>
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This is going to be good! BatchBlue is returning to give us a progress report on how much cooler they&#8217;ve become since they last presented at a geek dinner! Details and RSVP. See you all there!
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		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/06/17/providence-geek-dinner-tomorrow-june-18/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve got Internet meme in my RL</title>
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CC-licensed Lolrus image from Pete Mandik&#8217;s photostream on flickr
Life here in southern RI is not quite as boring as I let on. A few weeks (or was it months?) ago, a story broke about a woman who was discovered in a sorority on campus, and in the process of being escorted out, the discovery of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/30/youve-got-internet-meme-in-my-rl/</link>
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