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	<title>Stranger in a strange land</title>
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		<title>Groundbreaking &#8220;interactive reporting&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube Pulls Columbine Videos
YouTube has removed a number of videos glorifying the Columbine High School killers, after a BBC investigation.
They say no one likes a taddle tale, and regardless of the subject matter (videos relating to the Columbine Massacre) this is an all too obvious case of the BBC blatantly tooting their own horn.
&#8220;The BBC&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not just a fast food nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arrived back in Japan almost two weeks ago but still trying to get rid of the few extra pounds I&#8217;m packing from the trip. Everyone always makes fun of Americans and their terrible taste in food, but personally there&#8217;s nowhere on earth I&#8217;d rather eat.
Which is funny for me to say because most of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/11/not-just-a-fast-food-nation/</link>
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		<title>Part of that 57.4% in Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the cards have been played and Obama has won; I, for once, am extremely happy to be an American. This is our way of saying to the world that yes, enough is enough, we&#8217;re not the big-talking bullies that wuss out at the last minute and go conservative, and we&#8217;ve finally (somewhat) awakened to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/11/part-of-that-574-in-michigan/</link>
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		<title>100% Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Japan, Monday was gifted to us as a holiday, and two friends from work and I made our way over to the final day of the 100% Design exhibition in Gaienmae. Spread across the expanse of Meiji Jingu Gaien, the exhibition was large enough to sate our thirst for creative innovation without being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America: a photographic review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back from the States, and happy to be here. As much as I sometimes complain about being in Japan, one couldn&#8217;t find me any happier when the wheels of our 747 touched down on Narita&#8217;s runway. America is an interesting place, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to live there.
To keep things brief, some photos:

One of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/11/america-a-photographic-review/</link>
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		<title>Plunging into autumn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lack of updates again, this time I&#8217;ll blame work and the fact that I&#8217;m currently visiting my family in the ol&#8217; U S of A right now.
Speaking of work, how many of you, dear readers (are there any of you out there?), hang out with your co-workers on a regular basis? When I served [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/10/plunging-into-autumn/</link>
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		<title>Friday: 6:15pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiroko, one of the editorial staff for the other mag, and I are at the local corner store. Money in hand collected from around the office, we&#8217;re busy loading beers and chu-hi into a plastic shopping basket. We have one case of Kirin Ichiban Shibori, and are scouting the shelves for another variety because, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/10/friday-615pm/</link>
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		<title>Back to simpler times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this on What Japan Thinks, but Google has put up their index from 2001 in honor of their 10th anniversary.
Try googling things that are so ubiquitous or topical to us now, like Facebook, Firefox, Sarah Palin, MacBook, 9/11, MUFJ.
Isn&#8217;t that freaky? The sensation of trying to search for something but having no relevant results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/10/back-to-simpler-times/</link>
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		<title>A whole lotta nothin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m back in black (a black MacBook, that is) after an extended period being busy and having had an unfortunate accident with my previous MacBook that rendered me computer-less for far too long but gave me the chance to buy this little lovely from a guy with a yakuza for a bodyguard.
But this entry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/10/a-whole-lotta-nothin/</link>
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		<title>On the Japanese media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While doing some research yesterday, I found a great commentary by Dave Spector criticizing Japanese Olympic coverage. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the Olympics, nor am I a huge fan of Japanese TV. If Americans think their news coverage is narrowly-focused and sensationalized, they should spend some time in front of the telly over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hakka-life.net/2008/08/on-the-japanese-media/</link>
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