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	<description>wtf am i thinking?</description>
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		<title>Leaf Energy calculations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been considering getting a Nissan Leaf, but it doesn&#8217;t look like it makes financial sense. Just looking at operating costs(never mind the capital cost), the problem is that we routinely exceed our PG&#38;E energy baselines. The baseline price is $.11/KWh, Nissan claims a full charge of about 100 miles @ $.11/KWh would cost about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/07/leaf-energy-calculations.html</link>
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		<title>Tipping psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After eating out tonight, I saw a new type of ploy. The credit card bill slip had the total price $22.50 bill and also presented the following helpful tipping numbers numbers 15% = $3.38. 20% = $4.50.  25% = $5.63. I consider myself a generous tipper with a pretty standard 20%. I don&#8217;t know of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/07/tipping-psychology.html</link>
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		<title>WSOP Event #41 Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 2 didn&#8217;t go that great, I never really got anything going and I busted out a couple dozen short of the money. The website said I placed 103, the monitors at the tournament said 94 players remained, the actual placement is not that relevant, except that it was out of the money, but kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/06/wsop-event-41-day-2.html</link>
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		<title>WSOP Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I played in the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better WSOP today. Event #41. It&#8217;s a 3 day event, I survived day 1 with a slightly below average stack. About 170 players remain, 82 places pay, payouts range from $240k for first to $3k for 82nd.
I&#8217;m in pretty good shape. Some key hands.
In one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/06/wsop-day-1.html</link>
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		<title>Not so hot no NoSQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago a lot of software people got very excited about so called NoSQL databases. It started I think with the papers introducing the Google File System(GFS), BigTable and their use of MapReduce(which like PageRank turns out to be based on decades old principles, just applied in a new way). Since then many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/06/not-so-hot-no-nosql.html</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s tiered desktop storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a couple SSDs last year and they are super fast. I bought two Intel X-25m g2 and put them in a raid 0. I get over 400MB/s sequential read.
It&#8217;s a the best upgrade that money can buy. Why? Because for years disk performance has been improving so slowly compared to the rest of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/05/wheres-tiered-desktop-storage.html</link>
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		<title>Week in Puerto Vallarta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent last week in Puerto Vallarta at the Crown Paradise all inclusive resort. It&#8217;s nice, I recommend it. We got a good deal. It wasn&#8217;t super upscale, but it was pretty good. It was mostly relaxing, we didn&#8217;t have any planned activities.
The hotel itself was pretty nice, it was a bit odd that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/05/week-in-puerto-vallarta.html</link>
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		<title>Starcraft 2 Beta Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re about two weeks into the Starcraft 2 Beta and here&#8217;s my impressions. I used to be a very good, but not expert Starcraft 1 player. I played it for about 3 years. I&#8217;m mediocre at Starcraft 2, and pretty disappointed about how I&#8217;m playing right now.
Overall: It&#8217;s good, no doubt. The graphics are excellent. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/03/starcraft-2-beta-impressions.html</link>
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		<title>the new wp version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of frustration with blogger.com(and in particular their disabling of remote ftp support), I&#8217;ve moved to wordpress. I&#8217;ll be updating this and making changes soon
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		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/03/the-new-wp-version.html</link>
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		<title>Vacation in San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent a few days in San Diego last week for Lucas&#8217; birthday. We visited Legoland and Sea-Life(the aquarium next door) and the San Diego zoo. Overall, Legoland was enjoyable for 3-6 year olds, the rides were innocuous and unexciting. There weren&#8217;t quite as many actual Legos as I thought there would be. The time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chen.net/~hubt/blog/2010/02/vacation-in-san-diego.html</link>
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