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		<title>The one in which I talk about the patio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most of you know by now, I&#8217;m spending my weekends building a patio in the back yard. (For anyone that&#8217;s just now figuring this out, be happy that you&#8217;ve been spared my near-constant project storytelling. It&#8217;s seriously, the only thing going on with us right now, aside from Tuesday night drinking.) But trust me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting the (coax) cord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie has been calling for it for months. And I&#8217;m finally giving in. We&#8217;re getting rid of cable. &#8220;But SPORTS! I have to watch sports! What about my ESPN?&#8221; is what I used to argue. Now that they opened up ESPN3.com, that one&#8217;s gone. &#8220;But the DVR! We won&#8217;t have the DVR anymore!&#8221; A simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/07/cutting-the-coax-cord.html</link>
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		<title>Swagger wagon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the guy in this commercial and watching Phil in episodes of Modern Family, I think I&#8217;m getting a pretty solid idea of the kind of dad I want to be some day. (Oh, stop it already. We&#8217;re not pregnant.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/06/swagger-wagon.html</link>
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		<title>Up, up and away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got excited a couple weeks ago reading about a project in Wired magazine. &#8220;Tie your digital camera to some helium balloons,&#8221; it said, &#8220;and take aerial pictures of your house.&#8221; So, since I&#8217;m about eight years old at heart (it was an article about projects dads can do with their kids, after all), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roundup, May 20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s theme: small things of beauty The redesigned Politics page on NYTimes.com: That gray election sidebar is a pretty nice touch, and it&#8217;s a really unique navigation feature for an institution like the times. The infographics are just sublime, too. The Senate, House and Governors race pages all make really great use of maps and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/05/roundup-may-20.html</link>
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		<title>Huge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After skipping out on visits to the gym for the past, oh, two months, I finally got off my TV-watching recliner for some exercise. Some time ago, I downloaded the workout DVDs for P90X, the loud infomercial screamer videos that basically scare you into getting into shape. Then, I promptly ignored them until last night. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/05/huge.html</link>
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		<title>So awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you listen to NPR, I don&#8217;t need to tell you how amazing it would be to have Nina Totenberg and Robert Siegel doing a Lady Gaga singalong. Behold:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/05/so-awesome.html</link>
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		<title>Miami, The Gateway to the Americas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading to Miami this weekend for a meeting and my mom is meeting me there. Does anyone have suggestions on what to see and do (aside from the obligatory shopping)?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/04/miami-the-gateway-to-the-americas.html</link>
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		<title>Landscape by committee, part II &#8211; To awn or not to awn?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We here in the VanKat household love things with character. You might remember that charming GREEN house we tried (and failed) to bid on. And thank goodness for that. Among other things, Shirley&#8217;s floor plan is much more accommodating to the furniture we already owned. And let me tell you, we do not have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benvankat.com/blog/2010/04/landscape-by-committee-part-ii-to-awn-or-not-to-awn.html</link>
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		<title>A change for the yard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outdoor projects started last weekend. We took out the fence between our yard and the neighbors. We put it on Craigslist and a guy from York came and picked it up the next day, much to the chagrin of the other 11 people who called wanting to buy it. Who knew there was such a [...]]]></description>
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