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	<title>Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: &#039;we&#039;re all mad here....&#039;)</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on Photography and California... and other &#34;Random&#34; Ruminations</description>
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		<title>Norwalk CA boy, 7, calls 9-1-1, saves family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bring cops . . . a lot of them! . . . And soldiers too,&#8221; the boy said.
A 7-year-old Norwalk, CA boy was called a hero today, after he hid in a bathroom with his 6-year-old sister, locked the door,  and called 911 during a home-invasion robbery by three men with handguns who threatened his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6115</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Float like a butterfly,&#8230;</title>
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&#8230; sting like a bee.&#8221; &#8211; Muhammad Ali
A new Android-based Vodafone HTC Magic phone was reported to have malware on it, by an employee at Spanish antivirus firm Panda Security who received the phone. The malware was related to the Mariposa (Spanish for &#8220;butterfly&#8221;) botnet. (Mariposa is also a census-designated place in California that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6100</link>
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		<title>The Dating Game: choose wisely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fortunately, with one likely exception, the few probable psychopaths (approximately 1% of the general population) that I have met in my life have been at work. Workplaces are also comprised of about 1% psychopaths, but at least you can leave them at the end of the day.  
In Santa Ana, California, Rodney Alcala, 66, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6095</link>
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		<title>Just mad!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s Los Angeles Times featured a photo of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter across the entire width of its front page, the regular Los Angeles Times traditiional flag, and two real stories that were published in the paper last month. (The REAL front page was hidden inside.) Depp&#8217;s color image from &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6079</link>
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		<title>Great white shark vs. giant squid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marine ecologist Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science Institute in Fallbrook, CA has found a possible link between great white sharks and squid, part of a radical change in scientific thinking that began eight years ago, when scientists learned that great white sharks (1) MIGRATE! Domeier believes that the animals &#8220;are not a coastal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6065</link>
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		<title>Unemployment statistics: CA January and US February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Daily Double&#8221; in unemployment, at least for today, since California postponed its report on January in order to incorporate revised statistics&#8230;.
So here goes &#8211; first, the CA unemployment statistics for January&#8230;.
Although the unemployment RATE in January increased (slightly from 12.4%) to 12.5%, California non-farm payroll jobs also INCREASED by 32,500 in January, with eight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6042</link>
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		<title>Just in, from Disney Interactive Studios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And if you go, chasing rabbits&#8230;.&#8221; Jefferson Airplane, &#8220;White Rabbit&#8221;
Dianne I. Baker, Public Relations Coordinator at Disney Interactive Studios (headquartered in Glendale, CA) sent us a link to a new QuickTime movie file with a vignette of &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; uniquely on the Nintendo DS, inspired by the Tim Burton movie. She told us, &#8220;Please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6027</link>
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		<title>&#8220;They stab it with their steely knives,&#8230;</title>
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&#8230; but they just can&#8217;t KILL the beast!&#8221; -the Eagles, &#8220;Hotel California&#8221;
The ghost of Kate Morgan at the Hotel Del Coronado (photo above: the hotel, not the ghost   ) in Coronado, across San Diego Bay from San Diego, inspires nowhere NEAR the TERROR&#8230;.   

Today, a &#8220;funeral&#8221; is being held, as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6017</link>
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		<title>Were they all running Windows?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That is my one question after reading an AMAZINGLY UNINFORMATIVE &#8220;news&#8221; article on CNN.com this evening!
Three Spaniards were arrested who are suspected of having infected 13 million computers with a program that allowed them to steal personal and financial data in more than 190 countries worldwide!
Spanish Civil Guards worked with the American FBI and computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6006</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The difference between genius and stupidity&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is that genius has its limits.&#8221; &#8211; Albert Einstein
A combat soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was sentenced to 10 days imprisonment, was removed from his battalion and all combat postings, and had his combat certificate revoked after he posted details of an upcoming raid (including time and place) on Facebook.
The Israel Defense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5999</link>
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		<title>Creativity and imagination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have no creativity or imagination whatsoever.
And that&#8217;s OK&#8230;.  
Many of them are compensated for the lack by the fact that they run the world, and some multinational corporations.
I once had a very likable young manager who privately told me that he did not &#8220;have a creative bone in his body.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5958</link>
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		<title>Holey moley! Zero-day attack for older Windows&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that, by the way, &#8220;everybody&#8221; still happens to run, including Intel and the Winter Olympics. At least there was no public display of the Blue Screen of Death as happened in the China Olympics. As for Intel (which is still using Internet Explorer 6) &#8211; if Google, Adobe, and 32 other Silicon Valley companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5950</link>
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		<title>Google Person Finder for Chilean earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Saturday&#8217;s magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, Google has launched a tool to help people locate loved ones and friends who may have been affected by the quake and aftershocks.
Google Person Finder had 33,000 records when I just looked, and allows users to search, in English or Spanish, for information about people by name or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5943</link>
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		<title>New overlooks and bike lanes for the Marin Headlands</title>
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On Monday, road closures will mark the beginning of  a four-year project in the Marin Headlands that will continue for much of 2010. New overlooks and bike lanes will be constructed in a section of the Golden Gate National Recreational Area that offers wonderful views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. A Nike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5936</link>
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		<title>A Californian lost&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The body of actor Andrew Koenig, 41,  was found in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia this week. According to his father, actor Walter Koenig, perhaps best known for his roles as Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek series and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5, Andrew Koenig committed suicide. Andrew Koenig had stopped taking his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5928</link>
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		<title>Give me Liberty&#8230;</title>
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The Liberty Belle is a B-17 &#8220;Flying Fortress&#8221; bomber from World War II that will be making a two-week tour through Southern California, starting February 27-28 in San Diego County (photo of San Diego is above). (The LA Times link has a BEAUTIFUL shot of the B-17 flying over the Golden Gate, with the Golden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5917</link>
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		<title>Clueless in Santa Clara County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article on KCBS is entitled, &#8220;Probation Officers Get Right to Bear Arms.&#8221;
Just for the record, AND as a &#8220;newsflash&#8221; for the people at KCBS &#8211; probation officers have ALWAYS had the Right to keep and bear arms. That Right is reaffirmed for folks in the United States in the Second Amendment of the Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5897</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t gonna work on Maggie&#8217;s farm no more&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zynga, of San Francisco, California, makes the games: FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Café World, FishVille, and Zynga Poker.
Sound familiar? They should!
OK, all of my Facebook friends &#8211; I do not play ANY of the above games! Although I am not now, and have never been, a &#8220;workaholic,&#8221; I find that I do not have time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5887</link>
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		<title>Apple is #1 in reliability survey&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for the THIRD year in a row&#8230;!
This is hardly news to those of us who have been exposed to EVERYTHING on the desktop and MOST things on the server side, and who have chosen Mac. The good news is, more and more intelligent people are choosing Macintosh every day, regardless of what their retrograde [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5877</link>
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		<title>Book&#8217;em, Danno! With feeling, this time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California State Senator, Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), has proposed higher fines for texting or talking on a cell phone without a hands-free device while driving. Simitian authored California&#8217;s hands-free and anti-texting laws to begin with!
(The California Highway Patrol [CHP] says that there was a 20% reduction in fatalities and collisions during the first six months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/5860</link>
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