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	<title>THE ALBERT COMPENDIUM</title>
	<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com</link>
	<description>Personal journal; it's the shizzles</description>
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		<title>MCE receiver service stopped working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows Media Center (on Windows Vista SP1) had been giving me the &#8220;Windows Media Center Receiver Service stopped working and was closed&#8221; error whenever I tried to use it. The process crashed after a few seconds and then MCE became useless. Looking around the Internet lead me to posts about the same trouble but none [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/07/mce-receiver-service-stopped-working/</link>
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		<title>Non-object functions in strings with PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although you can use variables within strings in PHP, you can&#8217;t do functions. Well, not quite. If your function name begins with a dollar sign ($), it works fine. You can exploit this to call non-object functions such as htmlspecialchars.
&#60;?php
$F = "F";
function F($s) { return $s; }
$filename = '&#60;some code&#62;';
echo "{$F(htmlspecialchars($filename))}";
It&#8217;s still not as clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/php-curly-syntax-non-object-functions/</link>
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		<title>The inherent danger of single sign-on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although OpenID&#8217;s ubiquity is still growing, we already live in a world of &#8220;single-sign on,&#8221; although in a much smaller scope. Take Google for example: your one Google account authenticates you to your email, RSS feeds, stocks, Adsense, Analytics, and anything else you use. While that makes life easy for you, that one login gives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/alternative-logins-forget-single-sign-on/</link>
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		<title>Photoshop CS3 3D Rendering and Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, apparently as of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, 3D models can be imported and videos can be edited. Obviously, as Photoshop is an image manipulation program, it is not exactly the best suited for these tasks. However, if you don&#8217;t have the resources to use other programs, then I suppose these features could come in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/photoshop-cs3-3d-rendering-and-video/</link>
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		<title>RapidShare&#8217;s Cat and Dog CAPTCHA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that RapidShare had implemented a CAPTCHA with cats and dogs (I haven&#8217;t been to RapidShare.COM for a while). Their original one wasn&#8217;t that hard to break. The new is interesting because it requires a human to recognize the animal that is shown. Computers can&#8217;t do that.

But it looks to be still weak. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/rapidshares-new-captcha/</link>
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		<title>Express FTP Uploading: ByteDropper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time now, I have been using ByteDropper to quickly upload files to an FTP server without having to boot up an entire FTP client. ByteDropper isn&#8217;t alone in its category though; there are several other programs that do basically the same. However, ByteDropper is the best in my opinion. Files can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/express-ftp-uploading-bytedropper/</link>
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		<title>Changing the UI font in Outlook 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am curious as to whether anyone knows how to change the interface font of Microsoft Outlook 2007 from Segoe UI(?) to something else, such as Tahoma. It drives me mad that the font in Outlook 2007 clashes with every other program on my system. Oh the inconsistency&#8212;ERRGH! One of the reasons I turned off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2008/04/changing-the-ui-font-in-outlook-2007/</link>
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		<title>Windows&#8217; version of Time Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shadow copies is a feature introduced in Windows XP that kept incremental versions of your files in case you ever needed to restore files and folders from the past. As of Windows Vista, its role has been made a little effective. It is accessible on the &#8220;Previous versions&#8221; tab of file and folder properties as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2007/11/using-shadow-copies/</link>
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		<title>Gmail version two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is testing a new interface for its Gmail client with only a handful of selected individuals, so login to your webmail account to see if you&#8217;re one of the lucky few. You will realize that your account has been upgraded when a &#34;Newer version&#34; or &#34;Older version&#34; link appears in the top right corner.
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2007/10/gmail-version-two/</link>
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		<title>Contact me with my PGP key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently acquired a new PGP key that you can use to create encrypted messages that only I can open. This move was spurred by my switch to Thunderbird, fueled by GMail&#8217;s newly added support for IMAP (now Yahoo! needs to follow along&#8230;). To sum it up,&#160;PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)&#160;uses public-key cryptography to create two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sk89q.therisenrealm.com/2007/10/contact-me-with-my-pgp-key/</link>
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