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		<title>old blogger, new tricks</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot lately, and as I work to tweak and promote and refine everything that I&#8217;ve written I&#8217;ve been locked in this reality of the internet in its current state: that blogs are all but dead media. I was going through my bookmarks the other day and it was almost depressing how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m gonna go on about this all day and probably longer, but today—as I write these words and post them on April 20, 2026—is my blogiversary.&#160; On April 20, 2021, I was sitting in a hot little studio apartment in mainland Vancouver having just moved out there for work and I decided to write an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven’t been giving this poor blog the attention it deserves, I admit it. Other shiny things have captured my attention for the moment, tho the cycle of indifference will inevitably circle back around and you’ll once again wonder where I find the time to fill these pages with so much drivel. I am a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[One word that sums up your theme for 2026. Hey look! New year, new template. So, um…. that’s not exactly a rule, but when I rebooted this blog space back in April I tossed up a placeholder template to get me started, customized it lightly and kept rolling. (Well… typing and posting.) It was solid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I relaunched this site back in April I suggested that I would try not to write too many navel gazing posts about the blog itself.&#160; I mean, to be fair, I like reading about how the sausage is made—as it were. I wish a lot more people who maintained personal websites and writing projects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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