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		<title>A quick note on my relationship with Neal Stephenson&#8217;s work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps two years ago, I bought Quicksilver, the first of the three volumes of Stephenson&#8217;s The Baroque Cycle, and considering the vastness of the world I was entering (more than 900 pages per volume), I decided for a calm and slow approach. No method planned, though. I am ever so often stymied by method(s) when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=68&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The narration restarts, transformed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are busy times, and the backlog of things worth talking about, linking about, ranting about, is starting to get unmanageable. Today has been strange so far. A 5-hour sleep then waking up in a middle world &#8212; half still in the glistering twilight of sleep, half in the floating wreckage of wake. And, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=66&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone, with traces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happening often, lately.
Every time I decide to update my journal, something happens, thwarting my efforts, getting in the way, diverting my attention, you name it. This time, after my last update a month ago, was an unexpected prolonged stay at the hospital after the surgery I underwent on January 15.
Usually, a cholecystectomy (gall bladder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=64&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under (re)construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Further reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this period of economic uncertainty, many companies are trimming their (human) resources. Similarly, but virtually, I&#8217;m carrying out a &#8216;pruning plan&#8217; on my online presence and projects. The verb to prune expresses my intent with utmost precision: to prune is to cut away dead or overgrown branches or stems, esp. to increase fruitfulness and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=59&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sideways appraisal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An attempt to look closely at one&#8217;s attempts paradoxically nudges one into a distance from the work itself &#8212; a sideways appraisal.
(Annabel Nicolson, 1975)
I&#8217;d love to say that I&#8217;ve spent all this time since my last update doing extraordinary things, busying myself with exciting developments in my career as a translator, writer, tech pundit, whatever. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=54&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An important lesson learnt from the Newton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A real treasure in the Rizland Observer&#8217;s archives are numerous issues of MacUser Magazine from the years 1993-1995. It&#8217;s good to keep some Mac literature of the last decade, especially things written in a time when the Web was an infant. And it&#8217;s surprisingly refreshing to find that, still nowadays, that literature retains some value. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=52&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of the hiatus</title>
		<link>http://rizla.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/end-of-the-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rizland Observer is operative again. Briefly, April was spent travelling abroad. May was spent in the hospital, since the Maintainer &#38; Director of The Rizland Observer suffered a case of toxic hepatitis. June was spent recovering, following many projects and catching up with work and various backlogs. In short, we&#8217;re here. The galleon is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=49&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to hold the camera</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love film cameras; I own a small collection and I like to use them, not to leave them on a shelf just for display. Thanks to the Internet, finding manuals and documentation for 30 or 40-years-old cameras is not that difficult, unless the camera is some rare or obscure model. The design of most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=47&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Link] Shareware and the iPhone App Store</title>
		<link>http://rizla.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/linked-shareware-appstore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macworld &#124; Editors&#8217; Notes &#124; What’s shareware’s role on the iPhone?: Peter Cohen at Macworld asks the same question I&#8217;ve been asking myself since I saw the iPhone March 6 event on QuickTime.
What Apple didn’t detail, and what’s missing from the documentation provided with the SDK, according to the developers I’ve spoken with, is any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=38&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not an ordinary monograph</title>
		<link>http://rizla.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/not-an-ordinary-monograph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riccardo Mori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Hugues Boekraad
Title: My Work is not My Work &#8211; Pierre Bernard &#8211; Design for the Public Domain
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-3-03778-087-9
I&#8217;ve just begun skimming through this book, which I find quite interesting. The Preface opening clearly explains that This book is not an ordinary monograph about a designer: it is about the contribution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rizla.wordpress.com&blog=1628294&post=36&subd=rizla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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