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		<title>old blogger, new tricks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>ask me again next year</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Starting with an aside, I’ll just note that it drove me nuts when the company that makes and runs that dystopian social network—you know the one—decided to call itself meta. Many wager that they stole the term from Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash which itself was a fiction-shaped social commentary on the explosive expansion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>half life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not a game.&#160; I did the math. I was exactly half the age I am today when I wrote my first blog post. Maybe that’s nothing. Maybe that’s everything. I’m not sure I’m equipped to tell you either way. Take my age today, divide by two and that many years, months, days ago [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>three-sixty-five.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to say I&#8217;ve been saving up for this post, but after two years and two months of keeping a so-called &#8220;daily&#8221; blog, this &#8212; what you&#8217;re reading right now &#8212; is post three-sixty-five. One post per day for one full year. This should have been the post I wrote on December 31, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>After the Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exactly one week ago, almost to the hour of me writing these words, I finally tested positive for COVID-19. By all accounts and on a severity scale of one to ten (one being no symptoms and ten being the most severe fatal variety) I would rank my infection experience at a 4 or maybe at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 13:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a luxury that, I would guess, many people who post stuff online don’t have. I don’t need to generate an income from this. I’m lucky. I can blog without ads. I can post without sponsored content. Dabble in new media without penalty for failure. I can pay my hosting bills with my real [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Take Participation for Granted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can read these words. You have access to knowledge unknown and unfathomable to any generation before you. You are online, connected, exploring big ideas and complex thoughts. Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021. I restarted blogging at the beginning of 2021 after a fairly long absence from the sport. I put [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Across the Universe</title>
		<link>https://wander.8r4d.com/2021/12/across-the-universe/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I was driving through a snowstorm listening to a science radio show on the CBC talking about the launch of the new James Webb space telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope being jointly developed by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency. It is planned to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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