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	<title>Simplicitas • 无用之用</title>
	<link>http://kenliu.name</link>
	<description>Most rare is now our old simplicity • 说其志意， 养其寿命</description>
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		<title>More Pictures of Esther</title>
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		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/03/02/more-pictures-of-esther/</link>
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		<title>Esther, Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Esther Jieyou Liu / 刘界悠 arrived this morning, weighing in at a little over 7 pounds.

Mom and baby are both doing well.
The little tiger is born on Purim.  This wasn&#8217;t planned, but it certainly fits her name well.  Perhaps someone up there approves  
There&#8217;s still a lot to do, but I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/03/01/esther-welcome/</link>
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		<title>The Anthrax Mailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[F.B.I. Concludes Investigation in Fatal Anthrax Mailings: 

The report disclosed for the first time the F.B.I.’s theory that Dr. Ivins embedded in the notes mailed with the anthrax a complex coded message, based on DNA biochemistry, alluding to two female former colleagues with whom he was obsessed.
The report described how an F.B.I. surveillance agent watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/20/the-anthrax-mailer/</link>
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		<title>The Tax Laws and Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is said that the pilot who crashed into the Austin IRS building did it in part because of anger over Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (see here and here).  In essence, that law stripped the so-called &#8220;self-employed consultants&#8221; &#8212; engineers, designers, drafters, computer programmers, systems analysts &#8212; of independent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/19/the-tax-laws-and-programming/</link>
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		<title>Kumi Yamashita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first saw Kumi Yamashita&#8217;s work in Idaho.

Now I&#8217;ve written a story inspired by her work.
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		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/18/kumi-yamashita/</link>
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		<title>Mousepath, 24 Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anatoly Zenkov&#8217;s mouse movement tracking program has been making the rounds in the tech press.
Here&#8217;s my mouse path for 24 hours (from 11:30 last night to 11:30 tonight).  I didn&#8217;t really use the computer that much: some edits to a story, a little web browsing, some image editing.  Note that the program only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/18/mousepath-24-hours/</link>
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		<title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title>
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I first read this book, an account of how motion-study expert Frank &#38; Lillian Gilbreth (really the first management consultants) raised their 12 children, in a Chinese translation when I was very young.  I remember loving it back then.  Encountering it again now in the English original, I have to say I prefer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/13/cheaper-by-the-dozen/</link>
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		<title>Race &amp; Dating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OkCupid, a dating site, has an interesting blog that was recently profiled in the NYTimes.  It&#8217;s worth checking out.  Few dating sites release much of the date they gather on the behavior of their users, even though they are running some of the largest psychological experiments ever designed by mankind.  
(Full disclosure: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/13/race-dating/</link>
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		<title>How Much Should eBooks Cost?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the NYTimes, &#8220;The Cost of an E-Book Will Be Going Up&#8221;:

But some e-book buyers say that since publishers do not have to pay to print, store or distribute e-books, they should be much cheaper than print books.
“I just don’t want to be extorted,” said Joshua Levitsky, a computer technician and Kindle owner in New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/10/how-much-should-ebooks-cost/</link>
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		<title>2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading Wang Xiaobo&#8217;s (王小波) 2010 depresses you.  Its metaphor for China is so depressing and hopeless that you feel you should just lie down and give up if you were operating under the illusion that the Chinese were in the process of pulling themselves out of a four-hundred-year-long nightmare.
2010 shakes you awake from that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/02/09/2010/</link>
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