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		<title>iCrap Update</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/07/02/icrap-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems the iPhone has a little-known defect: its bars tell you how strong Verizon&#8217;s signal is, but it actually runs on AT&#038;T&#8217;s network. Who knew?]]></description>
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		<title>Got Droid?</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/05/03/got-droid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally took the Droid plunge, which set me back a whopping $19.99 for a two-year contract. Today alone it paid for itself when I found a coffee maker I liked at Target, scanned the bar code, and zapped it to Amazon, who offers it for $30 less. So definitely money well spent, at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Chargebacks</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/03/16/credit-card-chargebacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a charge on your credit card that you disagree with, try to resolve it with the merchant first, and go to the credit card company last. Failure to do so could get you blacklisted.]]></description>
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		<title>Karma</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/02/09/karma-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experian is getting hit with a class action on the novel theory that false advertising in a domain name is false advertising. My heart bleeds.]]></description>
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		<title>On the &#8220;Antitrust Exemption&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/02/06/on-the-antitrust-exemption/</link>
		<comments>http://xrlq.com/2010/02/06/on-the-antitrust-exemption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much political hay has been made of late over the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which is commonly but wrongly dubbed the &#8220;antitrust exemption&#8221; for insurers. Past efforts have been made to repeal McCarran-Ferguson entirely (Patrick Leahy is big on this), but the latest incarnation, H.R. 3596, would make piecemeal changes to the Act for health and medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Kindle Kerfluffle</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2010/02/03/on-the-kindle-kerfluffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What he said.]]></description>
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		<title>Ooma</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/30/ooma/</link>
		<comments>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/30/ooma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Products]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone tried it? I had VOIP with Packet8 and SunRocket in Cali, then had no choice but to revert to POTS in Virginia since neither cable nor DSL was available in the Land of Gooches at the time. I didn&#8217;t bother going back to VOIP upon moving to NC, as I got a pretty good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ikean 101</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/29/ikean-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IKEA has an annoying habit of being too lazy to write instruction manuals for their furniture, relying instead on a bunch of cutesy drawings that are supposed to tell you what you need to do. Recently I purchased a bookshelf (Expedit) and learned this lesson the hard way. For future reference, this: means &#8220;on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Piss Off Your Valued Customers</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/03/how-to-piss-off-your-valued-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://xrlq.com/2009/08/03/how-to-piss-off-your-valued-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picked up my rental car in Vegas yesterday, and learned that the car rental industry has found a third way to screw over customers. It used to be that only customers who forgot to refuel the car got screwed over by an unreasonably high per-gallon refueling charge. Then they started screwing over a second class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iFought the Law and iWon</title>
		<link>http://xrlq.com/2009/07/31/ifought-the-law-and-iwon/</link>
		<comments>http://xrlq.com/2009/07/31/ifought-the-law-and-iwon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xrlq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Products]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, many of those cool apps for the iPhone have more unlawful than lawful uses.]]></description>
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