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		<title>Driverless cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slashdot has an interesting link and discussion about a real-world test of driverless cars.  I&#8217;ve got them in my book.  They&#8217;re just one of several items of technology I wrote about in my book.]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking you via what you drink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Gaven, I wrote about how people were able to be tracked by analyzing an individual&#8217;s urine.  I was told this wasn&#8217;t possible.  It is. In a study published in the current issue of The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers found that water samples from 33 cities across the United State could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No new tale to tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been six months since I had any time to write down anything here.  There isn&#8217;t really any news on the novel.  I have been hard at work at my job that pays money and I work from 7am until 5pm.  I am also officially writing for The Daily Censored.  My other blogs, Rantings of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2010/07/no-new-tale-to-tell/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nearly time for the semester to end and for me to take a two week break from my job.  I&#8217;m looking forward to it.  My plans are the following: Find any spelling mistakes on my websites and fix them.  I&#8217;ve already been working on this, so it should be a short job. Send out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/12/holiday-time/</link>
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		<title>Another comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received another comment from someone who read the book.  They only left their email, so I&#8217;m going to leave that out of my cut and paste. Feedback: The Mayan Long Count Calendar (I assume that&#8217;s the calendar you refer to in Chapter 1) ends in December 2012, not in 2015. Otherwise, I like the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/11/another-comment/</link>
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		<title>Toyota developing anti-drunk driving device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had read about this sort of thing way back in 2004 and incorporated it into The Gaven.  Now, Toyota is making a good effort at making it real. Toyota Motor said Monday it was developing anti-drunk driving equipment that would lock the ignition of a vehicle if high levels of alcohol are detected in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/10/toyota-developing-anti-drunk-driving-device/</link>
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		<title>Rejections have returned and other news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten back all of the queries to possible agents that I had sent out, all rejecting myself and the novel.  While the rejections were polite, it&#8217;s discouraging as well.  I&#8217;ve been trying to find an agent for two years now and, at the moment, it seems like it&#8217;s going nowhere.  I&#8217;m sure that, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/09/rejections-have-returned-and-other-news/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t burn stuff in the house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I used to keep a very detailed, very personal and private, handwritten journal. I had them in several books that I thought I&#8217;d keep forever. Then, one day a couple of weeks ago I was flipping through them and though, &#8220;Holy hell! There&#8217;s no way I want anyone to ever know that.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/09/dont-burn-stuff-in-the-house/</link>
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		<title>On Writing Every Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the junior high school started back up on 24 August, I decided to put my down time at work to good use.Â  Due to the fact that my husband has to be at work sooner than me, I have 30 minutes in the morning and about 20 minutes at lunch to get some writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thegaven.com/index.php/2009/09/on-writing-every-day/</link>
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		<title>Had a Pity Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I had a pity party for myself the other day and it was great.Â  Of course I felt real sorry for myself and told myself that I was really cool and screw it if publishing agents and agencies don&#8217;t like me. Then, I went back to work and sent out another two queries.Â  [...]]]></description>
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