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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Useful and Fun Bash Prompt Tweaking</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/05/13/useful-and-fun-bash-prompt-tweaking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/05/13/useful-and-fun-bash-prompt-tweaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine gave me the following code, which he pulled off of http://serverfault.com. The site&#8217;s still in beta, and I don&#8217;t have an account there so I can&#8217;t actually get the full source URL, but here&#8217;s the code:
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		<title>Scam Alert of the Day (Or How Not to Try to Scam People)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/11/13/scam-alert-of-the-day-or-how-not-to-try-to-scam-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/11/13/scam-alert-of-the-day-or-how-not-to-try-to-scam-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got this email this morning, to our technical support mailbox:
Thu Nov 13 09:51:09 2008     billy_biros2003@cantv.net
Subject:     Pls, I need your kind urgent attention!
Date:     Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:20:11 -0430
To:     billy_biros2003@cantv.net
From:     "billy_biros2003@cantv.net" &#60;billy_biros2003@cantv.net&#62;
Dear ,
Pls, I need your kind urgent attention!
I am reaching you with faith after covering your information from reliable source on net. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Fresh Ubuntu, Fiber Optics, and Divorce</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/10/10/on-fresh-ubuntu-fiber-optics-and-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/10/10/on-fresh-ubuntu-fiber-optics-and-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community fiber]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay all, I&#8217;ve been silent for far too long, and I figured it was time to come out with some official statements for the benefit of the (albeit small) community that has formed around the Fresh Ubuntu podcast, and also for my other friends whom I haven&#8217;t had a chance to touch base with on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethel Signs on to EC Fiber</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/bethel-signs-on-to-ec-fiber/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/bethel-signs-on-to-ec-fiber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s Select Board Meeting Minutes:
With respect to the Town joining with others through the ECFiber Interlocal Contract to develop and implement a communications system, Chairman Fox stated that the Town appears to be in receipt of sufficient legal advice to confirm that the draft Interlocal Contract for formation of “ECFiber” should now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gAIM -&gt; Pidgin -&gt; Funpidgin -&gt; Carrier?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/07/gaim-pidgin-funpidgin-carrier/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/07/gaim-pidgin-funpidgin-carrier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Techspeak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a little program out there known as Pidgin, which is an open-source messaging project formerly known as gAIM. It supports communications with all of the popular chat platforms out there, like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber. I have been using it for years and love it.
However, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber/VTA Editorial in Today&#8217;s Valley News</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See this editorial in today&#8217;s Valley News for a pretty good summary of the state of ECFiber with respect to the VTA.
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		<title>Tim Nulty&#8217;s Response: &#8220;My Turn&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/tim-nultys-response-my-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/tim-nultys-response-my-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Techspeak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The reaction of an ECFiber delegate (a project to clone Burlington Telecom in rural Vermont) to the Free Press article was:  “The tone is negative, but the facts are actually positive for BT”.   Quite so.
The core facts are:  The  BT “Fiber-to-the-Home” project got its first financing at the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burlington Telecomm Article in the Free Press</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/burlington-telecomm-article-in-the-free-press/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/burlington-telecomm-article-in-the-free-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See this article on the current state of Burlington Telecom which ran in the Burlington Free Press yesterday. I think it is written pretty fairly, from my perspective, and raises some legitimate concerns. Note that, while BT may be behind on its predictions, it is projected to break even within the next few months. Taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber Network Pre-Registrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/25/ecfiber-network-pre-registrations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/25/ecfiber-network-pre-registrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current tally, as of today:



ECFiber Town
 %Households


Stockbridge
51.00%


Barnard
47.00%


Granville
44.00%


Pomfret
41.00%


Vershire
41.00%


Sharon
38.00%


Strafford
35.00%


Tunbridge
31.00%


Thetford
30.00%


Chelsea
23.00%


Woodstock
19.00%


Hancock
19.00%


West Windsor
18.00%


Rochester
16.00%


Norwich
13.00%


Bethel *
12.00%


Reading
12.00%


Brookfield *
11.00%


Royalton
9.00%


Hartford
7.00%


Williamstown *
7.00%


Braintree
6.00%


Randolph
5.00%


Montpelier
2.00%



]]></description>
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		<title>EC Fiber is Alive and Well!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/24/ec-fiber-is-alive-and-well/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/24/ec-fiber-is-alive-and-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline and article in Saturday’s Valley News about ECFiber (“VT Telecom Panel Snubs ECFiber”) left a seriously misleading impression that the fate of a grass roots effort depended on the Vermont Telecom Authority (VTA). In fact, it does not.
ECFiber won near unanimous community support on town meeting day. As has always been the case, [...]]]></description>
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