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		<title>Congratulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Vladimir Kramnik who today won the World Chess Championship, becoming the first unified world chess champion since 1993 when Kasparov left FIDE.  Kramnik&#8217;s next opponent will be Deep Fritz 10, a German chess program, in a &#8220;Man versus Machine&#8221; match beginning November 25th.  Good luck, Mr. Kramnik!

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		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=69</link>
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		<title>An old friend retires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of the United States Navy&#8217;s F-14 Tomcats will be officially retired from active service today in a fitting ceremony at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Their flight service ended yesterday at about 3:30pm local time when the last F-14 landed at Oceana. 
The Navy&#8217;s F-14 Tomcats have been replaced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Defining a planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody&#8217;s asked me yet, but here&#8217;s my definition of a planet:
A spherical body orbiting a body of stellar or greater mass, with sufficient mass to prevent any stable, coplanar, non-resonant orbit with a period between 2/3 and 3/2 of its own period.
Point by point:

A spherical body - eliminates black holes, stellar rings and the like.
orbiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=67</link>
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		<title>The importance of freedom of speech (It&#8217;s not what you think)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I talked today about the sheer number of alternative realities represented on the Web, and he commented that Freedom of Speech might have been taken too far.  He was joking, but I took the opportunity to vehemently disagree.  
I believe that it is CRITICAL to the continued advancement of human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=65</link>
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		<title>The loneliest guy at Murder, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British thespian Paul Bettany plays Silas, an &#8220;albino monk assassin,&#8221; in the new film The da Vinci Code.
Am I the only one who reads the phrase &#8220;albino monk assassin&#8221; and wonders whether it&#8217;s an albino monk who kills people, or a person who kills albino monks?  If it&#8217;s the latter, he&#8217;s gotta be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Into the 2000&#8217;s, kicking and screaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally upgraded my ancient and somewhat flaky CTX monitor.  Its replacement is an Acer AL1916, 19&#8243; LCD, which was a steal for $189 &#8212; $157 after tax and rebate.  (If you haven&#8217;t been to slickdeals.net, go now.)
A friend at work just bought an EVGA nVidia 6200 VGA+DVI video card to run two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Hussein lied, liberals cried</title>
		<description><![CDATA[reporting on Stephen Hayes&#8217; explosive article in the November 21 issue of the Weekly Standard about Iraqi documents captured by the Iraq Survey Group weapons search team and still being analyzed by our intelligence services.  The documents refer to plans made by Hussein&#8217;s government to hide weapons of mass destruction before the March &#8216;03 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Proof that country music fans have class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proof that country music fans have class
The following quote appeared in a story released yesterday by the New York Times and the Associated Press.  It refers to the Uptown Wal-Mart in New Orleans, opened a year ago and recently demolished by post-Katrina looting.
&#8220;They took everything &#8212; all the electronics, the food, the bikes,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Now comes the hard part</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our prayers and support are with those who are struggling to survive, recover and rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  God bless.

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		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=60</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re all in orbit today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to NASA and the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on this morning&#8217;s successful launch of the first manned U.S. space mission since the loss of Columbia.  Godspeed, guys.

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		<link>http://tonyc.com/journal/?p=59</link>
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