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	<title>The Official Site of Author Cesar Torres</title>
	<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog</link>
	<description>Author of &#34;The 12 Burning Wheels&#34;: 12 tales of dark fantasy and machine lore</description>
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		<title> Emotion Markup Language </title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a big week in the world of technology. The W3C consortium has proposed we create markup language to capture emotion. I am &#60;thrilled&#62;&#60;/thrilled&#62;! &#8220;As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1705">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8211;&gt; iWork &#8211;&gt; Pages &#8212; &gt; E-Pub &#8211;&gt; NO WAY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately there&#8217;s so many new developments in the world  of of publishing and e-reading, that it&#8217;s hard to keep up. You, Gentle Reader, may only be visiting this blog to see what I&#8217;ve been up to, and I can tell &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1697">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1697</link>
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		<title>A Writer&#8217;s Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, a series of updates. On the writing front, I am currently working through some deep problem solving in my latest project. This one will be a novel-length work, and though I tend not to have any problems producing &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1686">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1686</link>
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		<title>A blog&#8217;s evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2005, when I originally devised this blog as a way to chronicle my foray into becoming a published author, I imagined a fairly linear path. I envisioned posts about writing inspirations, habits, techniques. Not in my wildest dreams &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1685">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1685</link>
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		<title>Writing Inspiration via Flyer Miles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps no single act has ever done more for my creative and artistic renewal than travel. The further the better, literally and figuratively, I say. It is in those moments when we realize we can no longer see the front &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1672">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1672</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Inception&#8217;: When We Write About Dreaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Chris Nolan&#8217;s film &#8220;Inception&#8221; on my birthday this week, and within twenty or so minutes, I was already breathless, amazed at how close the ideas about dreaming, collective dreaming, cognition and even top-down processing were such a part &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1664">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1664</link>
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		<title>Spirals: Cognitive Science, Memory and Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting a new series of posts called Spirals, devoted to some of the work I am doing in graduate school in the realms of cognitive science, usability and human factors in digital reading. Today we kick off with an &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1658">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1658</link>
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		<title>Great American Road Trip 2010 and MORE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a lot of updates around here lately. Summer vacation is in full swing, and the break from grad school, blogging, and even writing (more on this later), has been well received. This summer, as part of an exercise in &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1647">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1647</link>
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		<title>Content&#8217;s Future: Not Science Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s in a book? Language, ideas, narrative? Is that inherent to the binding and to the paper? No. What&#8217;s in a musical recording? The experience of the music? Does it matter if it&#8217;s on vinyl or MP3? No, it doesn&#8217;t. &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1643">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1643</link>
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		<title>The Aether Age Approaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No writeup needed. This is going to be good. The Aether Age approaches.]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1640</link>
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		<title>Kevin Rose: You Know, Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Cool If&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the world of interaction design and also in the world of software development, it can be a dreaded phrase. Wouldn&#8217;t it be cool&#8230;? Features added for the sake of being cool features can make a system or an application &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1634">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1634</link>
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		<title>The Act of Reading in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 21st century is an age of literacy. As computer and Internet technologies continue to grow, more of our daily lives are dependent on being able to read to interface with these systems. During this time of change, technology is &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1632">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1632</link>
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		<title>Summer Hours and New Blog Categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can I tell you the story of what happened to me in that wide space between the blizzards of winter and the storms of spring? We can say this: I was once a boy who worked hard at feeling &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1629">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1629</link>
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		<title>Jaysus! Somehow I did it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished an arduous, burnout-inducing, but rewarding school year. DISHES ARE DONE, MAN. Coming up: Some true time off. I&#8217;ll be back the week of June 22. This summer I&#8217;ll be blogging word counts on the novel I have neglected, &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1626">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1626</link>
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		<title>E-Pub 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very nice video explaining the e-pub format for e-books (there&#8217;s many more) and how it ties into the iPad.]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1624</link>
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		<title>Forgive Me for a Few Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to tend well to this blog. And I apologize for the gap in posts lately. I&#8217;m at the end of my quarter at school, and I&#8217;ve got two classes wrapping up. When I finish all this work I &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1622">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1622</link>
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		<title>E-Book Talk: iPad Usability, Google Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to dismiss the iPad as a giant iPhone, and it&#8217;s certainly easy to find fault in Apple&#8217;s growing might as a mega-tech company. In other words, Steve Jobs is kind of crazy lately. What we can&#8217;t deny, though, &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1612">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1612</link>
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		<title>Jorge Luis Borges: &#8216;Sabados&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s times when you are struck by the fact that some writers truly have a gift for words. I doubt I have that gift as a writer, but I know one who did. Jorge Luis Borges, one of my personal &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1603">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1603</link>
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		<title>12BW: Reviews, Interviews and a Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot to tell you about lately. Firstly, there are a few new reviews of &#8220;The Twelve Burning Wheels.&#8221; And the reviews are good. Check em out: Reviews of &#8220;The 12 Burning Wheels&#8221; Innsmouth Free Press My Whole Expanse &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1598">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1598</link>
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		<title>KMFDM &#8217;92: &#8220;Can We Govern Your Soul?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is amazing. I stumbled across a video clip that kinda blew my mind. It&#8217;s a pretty decent recording of KMFDM playing at the Cabaret Metro (now known as Metro) in 1992, touring their new album &#8220;Money.&#8221; They are &#8230; <a href="http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1594">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://cesartorres.net/blog/?p=1594</link>
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