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		<title>Referring to a PHP object property using a variable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those really simple things that I use infrequently enough that I tend to forget: If you&#8217;ve tried using $object->$field_name to address a property of a PHP object, you&#8217;ll know that PHP isn&#8217;t happy with that syntax. Instead, use:]]></description>
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		<title>UX Movement &#8211; Why headlines attract more user attention than images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel obligated to repost this invaluable bit of knowledge from the excellent UX Movement website. UX Movement &#8211; Why Headlines Attract More User Attention Than Images When websites show content, they’ll usually use a headline and image. Headline and image quality is important in getting the user’s attention. However, the headline will always get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Apple iPhone isn&#8217;t manufactured in the United States of America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the New York Times has a long article that essentially investigates why Apple and other hardware companies manufacture their wares abroad. The pat answer of &#8220;because it&#8217;s cheaper&#8221; is certainly accurate, but the piece also touches upon the reasons of a lack of worker flexibility, a lack of an appropriately skilled population, uneven support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2012/01/21/why-the-apple-iphone-isnt-manufactured-in-the-united-states-of-america/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-the-apple-iphone-isnt-manufactured-in-the-united-states-of-america</link>
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		<title>What if middle-class jobs disappear?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t believe this piece offers us new insight on the turmoil in labour markets today, but I think it does a good job of summarizing the why&#8217;s and touching on possible outcomes. One interesting note I&#8217;ve read before and again here: Holders of undergraduate degrees had their wages fall more (by percentage) than even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership secrets of Kim Jong Il: The infantilization of North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I&#8217;ve seen being asked today as a result of Kim Jong Il&#8217;s death this Saturday was, &#8220;Why would you only show footage of a bunch of crying people. Sure, crying is fine, but aren&#8217;t you going to have some people talking the leaders up and saying some words of praise? How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/12/19/the-leadership-secrets-of-kim-jong-il-the-infantilization-of-north-korea/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-leadership-secrets-of-kim-jong-il-the-infantilization-of-north-korea</link>
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		<title>Lemma for the BlackBerry PlayBook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[image]http://yllus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lemma.png[/image] [link]http://lemmaforplaybook.com/[/link] [description]Lemma for the BlackBerry PlayBook is a free, open-source Twitter app that was written as a proof of concept of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK (HTML5 and JavaScript). The code for Lemma for BlackBerry PlayBook is publicly available, allowing the thriving PlayBook developer community to update, optimize and enhance the app&#8217;s functionality.[/description]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/12/18/lemma-for-the-blackberry-playbook/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lemma-for-the-blackberry-playbook</link>
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		<title>Street style (rebel edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Libyan rebel fighter smokes a cigarette next to an improvised multiple rocket launcher in the back of a pickup truck, as the rebels prepare to make an advance, in the desert on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) &#8211; In Focus &#8211; 2011: The Year in Photos, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/12/06/street-style-rebel-edition/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=street-style-rebel-edition</link>
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		<title>The touch-sensitive Etre FIVEPOINT Gloves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught a glimpse of Etre&#8217;s FIVEPOINT gloves on The GQ Eye and ended up purchasing a pair of Oxford Blue with Pearl tips in large. Delivery to Canada took ten days; the total damage was $67 CDN. A little pricy, sure, but for someone who is forever checking his phone while waiting at one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/12/06/the-touch-sensitive-etre-fivepoint-gloves/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-touch-sensitive-etre-fivepoint-gloves</link>
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		<title>Rev. Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is &#8220;Rolling Stone&#8217;s 1979 story piecing together what happened after the tragedy masterminded by Rev. Jim Jones&#8221;. It&#8217;s an amazing, disturbing read to any of us too young to have heard live coverage of the event. Rolling Stone &#8211; In the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Guyana After the Jonestown Massacre The others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/11/24/rev-jim-jones-and-the-jonestown-massacre/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rev-jim-jones-and-the-jonestown-massacre</link>
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		<title>Outputting MySQL results to a file without OUTFILE access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MySQL client&#8217;s -e (or &#8211;execute=) flag allows you to specify a query to be run at the command line, which can then be output back to a local file:]]></description>
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		<title>TodaysParent.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[image]http://yllus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/todaysparent.jpg[/image] [link]http://www.todaysparent.com/[/link] [description]Today&#8217;s Parent has been the &#8220;go-to&#8221; print and online magazine for families for more than 25 years. With a circulation of approximately 165,000 copies, it&#8217;s read by over 1.7 million Canadians every month. I served as the technical lead on the redesign of this marquee Rogers Media property to its launch on October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jane Jacobs theory of &#8220;import replacement&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In previous days I&#8217;ve argued that having a strong industrial/manufacturing base isn&#8217;t as important to a nation as it once was. But lately I&#8217;ve wondered if a loss of that base has greater implications than we think. I&#8217;m not a Jacobs devotee like many urban-minded Torontonians are, but I did think that this summation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street style (August 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In France, an American officer and a French Resistance fighter are seen engaged in a street battle with German occupation forces during the days of liberation, August 1944, in an unknown city. (AP Photo) &#8211; In Focus &#8211; World War II: The Allied Invasion of Europe]]></description>
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		<title>A family resemblance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PTV (a television network in Pakistan) did a half-hour feature on some of my grandfather&#8217;s films. Lots of black and white film acting and dancing can be found within. You can make the family connection in the fact that at one point a grown man cries, wails and gestures using a chicken he&#8217;s holding in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/09/21/a-family-resemblance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-family-resemblance</link>
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		<title>USS Enterprise, May 1942</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in late May 1942, being readied for the Battle of Midway. (U.S. Navy) &#8211; In Focus &#8211; World War II: Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Campaign]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Forbes article on manufacturing: &#8220;Why Amazon Can&#8217;t Make A Kindle In the USA?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this article incredibly interesting for illustrating how a series of seemingly reasonable business decisions can be made by North American corporations that ultimately lead to entire industries being moved offshore. Even better, it talks about repair measures we can take, starting with a shift in our way of thinking at every decision-making level. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/08/21/amazing-forbes-article-on-manufacturing-why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=amazing-forbes-article-on-manufacturing-why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa</link>
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		<title>A twelve-minute clip of every gruesome, gory death in the Final Destination series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful Screened.com has put up a compilation video of every death in the Final Destination series. I&#8217;ve not seen a single one, and had no idea it was so gory.]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/08/10/a-twelve-minute-clip-of-every-gruesome-gory-death-in-the-final-destination-series/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-twelve-minute-clip-of-every-gruesome-gory-death-in-the-final-destination-series</link>
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		<title>iVillage.ca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[image]http://yllus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ivillageca.png[/image] [link]http://www.ivillage.ca/[/link] [description]iVillage Canada is an online community for women, offering expert advice on parenting, pregnancy, beauty, style, fitness, health, diet, relationships, food, and entertainment. I served as technical lead on this Rogers Media / NBC Universal collaboration, guiding the development of iVillage Canada to its launch on May 9, 2011.[/description]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/07/26/ivillage-ca/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ivillage-ca</link>
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		<title>Ideas for how to put the unemployed back to work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my commute to the office yesterday I saw a link to a feature being run by The Atlantic called The Great Jobs Debate: Ideas for how to put the unemployed back to work. In their words, they&#8217;ve &#8220;brought together some of the top minds in business, government, and the world of ideas, each to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/07/19/ideas-for-how-to-put-the-unemployed-back-to-work/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ideas-for-how-to-put-the-unemployed-back-to-work</link>
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		<title>Diversity makes us uncomfortable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard people reference this study a number of times recently and finally decided to track it down. For an expanded explanation of Mr. Putnam&#8217;s findings, see his article E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century. Boston.com &#8211; The downside of diversity It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yllus.com/2011/07/18/diversity-makes-us-uncomfortable/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=diversity-makes-us-uncomfortable</link>
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