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	<description>Thoughts on Photography and California... and other &#34;Random&#34; Ruminations</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you believe in&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Magic?&#8221; &#8211; 1965, by John Sebastian of The Lovin&#8217; Spoonful
Back on March 9 of this year, I wrote about a new Android-based Vodafone HTC Magic phone that had a Mariposa botnet client and other malware on it, as discovered by the Spanish anivirus firm, Panda Security.
Vodafone said that early indications were that &#8220;this was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6208</link>
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		<title>Toasted cheese?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN&#8217;s SciTechBlog asks our opinion about their list of the putative &#8220;5 cheesiest tech slogans?&#8221;


&#8220;Google: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil.&#8221; (&#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; anyone?)
Apple: &#8220;Think different.&#8221; (Like the rest of us? Part of an older ad campaign.)
Microsoft: &#8220;Your potential. Our passion.&#8221; (Well, at least they&#8217;re passionate).
Facebook: &#8220;To give people the power to share and make the world more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6189</link>
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		<title>None of the above?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, somehow, mercifully, I was spared the viewing of Carly Fiorina&#8217;s new attack video, dubbed &#8220;HindenBoxer.&#8221; Again, mercifully, the Republican &#8220;fireball&#8221; did not add any real &#8220;flames&#8221; to this video. The metaphorical flames were bad enough.
Frankly, I enjoyed Pixar&#8217;s film, &#8220;Up!&#8221; much more! Maybe it was the &#8220;positive energy&#8221; of the Pixar film&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6175</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Dunn was over Unger,&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and I was over Dunn.&#8221; &#8211; Captain Clarence Oveur (Peter Graves [1]) from Airplane II: The Sequel
Actor Peter Graves, who was perhaps best known for his starring role in TV&#8217;s &#8220;Mission: Impossible,&#8221; was found dead today, at his home. There was no sign of foul play. Graves was 83.
Graves was born Peter Aurness in Minneapolis, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6170</link>
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		<title>Some winter images</title>
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I just uploaded 33 images from those taken over the winter months, to the albums: San Francisco, California Coast, Outdoor Recreation, Viticulture and Wine, and Wildlife in the Cheshire Cat Photo™ Pro Gallery on Shutterfly™. Low-resolution images are linked from the Stock Photo Table.
Yesterday, we had rain for about 12 hours, which can happen during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6158</link>
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		<title>Spring wildflowers in the Southern California desert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spectacular mix of spring wildflowers is predicted for the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, a park that I have never visited in San Diego County, Imperial County, and Riverside County. Blooms are just starting to show, and the wildflower season may begin and peak as soon as next week, as the result of a stretch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6137</link>
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		<title>While you watch the ads watch YOU&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since around 1964, while many of us have been sleeping (others of us may not have been BORN in 1964), systems for the computerized recognition of human faces (including 3D face recognition) have been getting smarter and smarter. Facial recognition systems do not even need visible light to work; they work perfectly well in apparent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheshirecatphoto.com/pages/blog/archives/6119</link>
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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 (however, psychopaths [and bullies] may be &#8220;selected for&#8221; at higher echelons of the workplace), but at least you can leave them [...]]]></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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