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	<title>ehb</title>
	<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rethinking Economy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/11/04/id-70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave a presentation on rethinking money at UMass Amherst for a course Julie Graham is teaching called Rethinking Economy.  Julie does some very interesting work on community economies.
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		<title>MacBook Pro trackpad clicking intermittently broken</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/10/30/id-69</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/10/30/id-69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So when I got my new MacBook Pro (late 2008 edition) with the fancy new trackpad that is an integrated mouse button, it had an incredibly annoying problem:  every 4th or 5th click, didn&#8217;t click!  So I&#8217;d be clicking on a window behind the current one, or clicking on an icon in the dock, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>databases and read vs. write consistency</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/10/29/id-68</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/10/29/id-68#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have just read an excellent blog post on &#8220;dumb databases&#8221; and the issue of read vs. write consistency.  My own mesh &#38; churn for open money comes out of the same realizations that in a distributed environment the way to handle many many issues is to put the responsibility on the reader to verify the validity of the data.
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		<title>econophysics and community currency</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[econophysics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[os-earth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/09/03/id-67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been introduced to the field of econophysics and I&#8217;ve read an interesting the review paper on the field.  My thoughts on this paper is that it&#8217;s very good news for the community currency movement, if understood properly. For a long time when talking about cc, I&#8217;ve been using the little thought experiment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bdd &#038; accounting</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/07/09/id-66</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/07/09/id-66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[coding/software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[geeky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized that Behavior Driven Development is very similar to double entry book-keeping in accounting! 
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		<title>git me some solutions</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/04/17/id-65</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/04/17/id-65#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[geeky]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, git definitely takes some gitting used to. 
 My situation is using git with three team members and a private shared repository that we all pull from and push too.  Additionally our project has a submodule that lives on a public git-hub repository (metaform).


So here are some things I&#8217;ve learned:

Use rebase.  Here&#8217;s how: 

Rebase doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>git bandwagon</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/04/12/id-64</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/04/12/id-64#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve officially joined the git bandwagon.  I&#8217;ve put metaform up on github (the open money projects will come soon, but I think probably on gitorious); I&#8217;ve been reading tons of articles about git; I installed it on Tiger (use MacPorts) and Leopard (install from source with these instructions but use 1.5.5); and now I&#8217;m blogging about it.  The most interesting article so far on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mexico</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/03/05/id-62#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in mexico, and it&#8217;s the start of the third day of the open money intensive.  This is an incredible experience of the expansion of the open money vision that&#8217;s been in gestation for so long and is now being  birthed.  More soon!
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		<title>spam hacking this blog</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/22/id-61</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/22/id-61#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very grumpy because some spammers have been hacking this blog!  I&#8217;ve updated to the latest version of Wordpress, and it still seems to be occuring, so if you see nasty stuff here, please notify me.  Thanks.
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		<title>wealth literacy</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/16/id-60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>ubuntu gutsy on a xen virtual host</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/04/id-59</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2008/02/04/id-59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey googlers looking for tech-support:
I was trying to install various packages (emacs, etc) from universe on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10), and I kept getting weird segmentation faults (Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.17) Segmentation fault).  Turns out that the problem was that my server was being hosted on a VPS running XEN for virtualization, and you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why i am working on open money</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-geeky]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/07/id-58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve had opportunity to reflect on why I&#8217;m particularly dedicated to the open money path out of all the many different community currency paths. 
I offer it here not in the spirit of saying open money is better than other approaches, but rather just to share my understanding and what motivates me to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on language and wealth acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/12/05/id-57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a discussion today with Jean-François about the content of my previous post, he described another very important way of thinking about the evolution of writing from pictographs to alphabets and ideograms.  Namely that the step taken was from a system in which representations could be created, to a system in which information can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the cost of lies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/30/id-56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today it occurs to me that one way of describing inflation is that it is a tax on falsehood.  Most of the taxes we pay are explicitly levied in some way or another.  Inflation is the implicit tax that we pay through the structure of the monetary system itself, because of the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language, Money and Wealth Acknowledgment</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community currency]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Abram, in his book The Spell of the Sensuous, describes the history of written language and its evolution from pictographic directly representational symbolic system to an abstract phonemic system.  He describes the incredible intellectual leap taken by some scribe who realized that the symbol doesn&#8217;t actually need to have ANY visual resemblance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>new skype language</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/10/24/id-54</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/10/24/id-54#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, there are two new skype related words that I&#8217;ve started using, one which I coined myself, and the other which was amazingly self-referentially coined while in a chat.
The first word &#8220;skypo&#8221; is what you do when you mistakenly (and potentially very embarrassingly) type something into the wrong chat.  My skype window usually has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8220;elevator-pitch&#8221; for community currencies</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 14:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a skype chat I&#8217;m on that discusses community currencies, that recently was trying to find &#8220;the ultimate elevator pitch&#8221; for community currencies.  This is a very reasonable request as all of us working in this area are frequently asked to describe what we are up to succinctly.  Here&#8217;s my post to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rails capistrano deploy script OS X to Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/19/id-52</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/19/id-52#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/19/id-52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so in a previous post I described the rabit-hole which is switching to rails.  Below&#8217;s my capistrano deploy script which solves a number of problems:

The production server needs a mongrel cluster configuration file added.
Deployment requires restarting the mongrel cluster.
On Ubuntu the database.yaml spec has to be modified to because you need to specify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Innocent Fraud, John Kenneth Galbraith, 2004</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/15/id-51</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/15/id-51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can read this short book in an hour, but you&#8217;ll be thinking about it for much longer.  Galbraith, a man of impeccable credentials, points out some of the unspoken (by mainstream culture) truths of our times:

&#8220;The free-market system&#8221; is the meaningless replacement term for what capitalism has become, and what should truthfully be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;list items won&#8217;t wrap&#8221; Firefox css fix!</title>
		<link>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/14/id-50</link>
		<comments>http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/14/id-50#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/04/14/id-50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days working on the openmoney.info website, I&#8217;ve had a major hassle dealing with what appears to be a bug in the html renderer in Firefox.
The issue is that in Firefox, text in a list item won&#8217;t wrap around a right floated image; like this:
 
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
sed [...]]]></description>
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