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	<title>Gary Burge &#187; General</title>
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	<description>Gary Burge is an experienced web developer and techno-activist</description>
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		<title>Tornado vs. Train &#8211; Tornado Wins</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/07/09/tornado-vs-train-tornado-wins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 7, 2008, a fierce tornado producing up to 160 mile-per-hour winds blew across two northern Illinois counties. The twister was unusual for two reasons: First, the temperature and weather conditions were more typical of a midwestern spring than mid-winter. And second, the storm blew 12 railroad cars off the tracks. The truely scary [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On January 7, 2008, a fierce tornado producing up to 160 mile-per-hour winds blew across two northern Illinois counties. The twister was unusual for two reasons: First, the temperature and weather conditions were more typical of a midwestern spring than mid-winter. And second, the storm blew 12 railroad cars off the tracks.</p>
<p><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/azV5bC2br-Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The truely scary part of this video is when you realize that the big thing sliding along the tracks toward the train engine, past the blown off cars, is a huge tank car that is throwing up a shower of sparks! What&#8217;s in the tank? Hopefully not gasoline!</p>
<p>More about this storm at the NOAA weather bureau <a title="Click to read more about this storm" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>
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		<title>Neda: &#8220;The innocent look in her eyes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/06/25/neda-the-innocent-look-in-her-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A moving — and chilling BBC interview with Arash Hejazi, the doctor who tried to save Neda Soltan&#8217;s life. He is the younger man shown kneeling at her side in the videos of her death on the streets of Tehran. Dr. Hajazi, who said he did not know Neda and was walking from his nearby [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A moving — and <em>chilling</em> <a title="Click to read full interview" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8119713.stm" target="_blank">BBC interview</a> with Arash Hejazi, the doctor who tried to save Neda Soltan&#8217;s life. He is the younger man shown kneeling at her side in the videos of her death on the streets of Tehran.</p>
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<p>Dr. Hajazi, who said he did not know Neda and was walking from his nearby office through groups of people who were themselves watching a demonstration, is now in Great Britain. He says that although he fears for his safety and will not return to Iran for some time, he felt compelled to speak about the death of a 26-year-old woman whose bloody image has become an icon of Iranian protest.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8221;They (the Iranian clergy) are going to denounce what I am saying. They are going to put so many things on me. I have never been in politics. I am jeopardising my situation because of the innocent look in her (Neda&#8217;s) eyes.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Hurricane Season (Already!)</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/05/28/hurricane-season-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 20:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has started! For anyone like me who lives in Florida, &#8220;it&#8221; at this time of year can only mean the much dreaded Hurricane Season. It&#8217;s supposed to &#8220;officially&#8221; start June 1, but this year the weather gods are jumping the mark with a new tropical depression, which only has a number (One) for now, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has started! For anyone like me who lives in Florida, &#8220;<em>it</em>&#8221; at this time of year can only mean the much dreaded <em>Hurricane Season</em>. It&#8217;s supposed to &#8220;officially&#8221; start June 1, but this year the weather gods are jumping the mark with a new <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#ONE" target="_blank">tropical depression</a>, which only has a number (One) for now, off the coast of Rhode Island.</p>
<div id="attachment_464" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 575px"><img src="http://garyburge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nhc_tropical_depression_1.gif" alt="Tropical Depression One" title="nhc_tropical_depression_1" width="565" height="460" class="size-full wp-image-464" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tropical Depression One</p></div>
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		<title>links for 2009-05-18</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/05/18/links-for-2009-05-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 02:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us Now By Banyak Films. A hour-long documentary on social networking in online communities. (tags: UsNow BanyakFilms socialnetworking communities) The Truth about BDD I really like the concept of BDD (Behavior Driven Development). I think Dan North is brilliant, and had done us all a great service by presenting the concept. (tags: BDD Rails Ruby [...]]]></description>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://vimeo.com/4489849">Us Now</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">By Banyak Films.</p>
<p>A hour-long documentary on social networking in online communities.</p></div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/UsNow">UsNow</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/BanyakFilms">BanyakFilms</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/socialnetworking">socialnetworking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/communities">communities</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/11/27/the-truth-about-bdd">The Truth about BDD</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">I really like the concept of BDD (Behavior Driven Development). I think Dan North is brilliant, and had done us all a great service by presenting the concept.</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/BDD">BDD</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/Rails">Rails</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/Ruby">Ruby</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/RoR">RoR</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/Cucumber">Cucumber</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/articles">articles</a>)</div>
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		<title>links for 2009-05-17</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/05/17/links-for-2009-05-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 02:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clip Syndicate Video: Most Watched Emergency landing captured on video from inside the private plane. (tags: airplane video emergency landing WinterHaven) The Fortune You Seek&#8230; Fortune Cookie: The fortune you seek is in another cookie. (tags: image funny fortune cookies) cards of change Our mission is to collect as many business cards and stories of [...]]]></description>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3421/916781?cpt=8&amp;title=most_watched&amp;wpid=1260">Clip Syndicate Video: Most Watched</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Emergency landing captured on video from inside the private plane.</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredrubinsky/3242277849/">The Fortune You Seek&#8230;</a></div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.cardsofchange.com/">cards of change</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Our mission is to collect as many business cards and stories of positive change of people who have recently been laid off and connect them with new opportunities from potential employers, business partners and people who make the effort to look on the bright side of life.</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/layoffs">layoffs</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/layedoff">layedoff</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/businesscards">businesscards</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/">FullCalendar &#8211; Full-sized Calendar jQuery Plugin</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">FullCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides a full-sized, drag &amp; drop calendar like the one below. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month and is easily configured to use your own feed format (an extension is provided for Google Calendar).</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/jQuery">jQuery</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/month">month</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/calendar">calendar</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/garyburge/plugins">plugins</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.redredred.com.au/projects/jquery-week-calendar/">jquery week-calendar | redredred</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application.  It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by the FullCalendar plugin by Adam Shaw and other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.onlinetechtips.net/2009/05/jquery-and-ajax-photo-gallery.html">JQuery and Ajax photo gallery</a></div>
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So to get that attraction here is a list of beautiful jQuery and Ajax photo gallery.</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/developer-toolbox/javascript-ajax-jquery-mega-toolbox.html">120+ Javascript, Ajax, jQuery Mega ToolboxÃ‚Â |Ã‚Â tripwire magazine</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Javascript, Ajax and jQuery is used more and more these days and for a reason. These technologies can improve your web site Look &amp; Feel, Usability and functionality significantly. There is a lot of free frameworks, examples, demos etc. available on the Internet and you will get access to some of the best in this article.</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://programmersvoice.com/codeigniter/building-and-maintaining-an-admin-panel-in-codeigniter">Building and Maintaining an Admin Panel in CodeIgniter</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">This is a problem I see brought up in the CodeIgniter Forums, users donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know how to best go about creating an admin interface for their websites. Some create two applications, some use modules. In this post I will create a simple convention you can apply to your applications ot create easily manageable interfaces.</div>
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		<title>Emergency Landing from Inside the Cockpit</title>
		<link>http://garyburge.com/2009/05/17/emergency-landing-from-inside-the-cockpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flight instructor Kyle Davis got a chance to test his own abilities April 19, 2009, when the engine on his small plane quit multiple times and he was forced to land on two lanes of a four-lane road in Winter Haven, FL.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flight instructor Kyle Davis got a chance to test his own abilities April 19, 2009, when the engine on his small plane quit multiple times and he was forced to land on two lanes of a four-lane road in Winter Haven, FL.</p>
<p>The whole ordeal — from engine failure to heart-stopping landing — was caught on tape from a camera in the cockpit.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was incredibly lucky,&#8221; Davis told <a title="Click to read news story" href="http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/emergency_landing_042109" target="_blank">FOX 13</a> television in Tampa. &#8220;It was a whole bunch of luck and a little bit of experience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Davis, and his passenger, a professional videographer, left Gilbert Field in Winter Haven around 10:30 a.m. They were on their way to the Sun &#8216;N Fun Fly in, a 15-minute flight. As the plane descended rapidly, Davis had to make a split second decision: land in a field, a lake or on the road. Fortunately, being a Sunday morning, there was little traffic on the road and no nearby cars in the lanes where Davis landed.</p>
<p>When the plane slowed, Davis turned it into a driveway and rolled to a stop in a parking lot.</p>
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