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Plus &#8230; <b>600 Tabs<\/b>??!!  Yikes!  (On the other hand, can&#8217;t believe the average is just 2-3, either, though I admit my current 36 is well to the fringe of the bell curve.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/jh5PkVjWoiw\/sns-ap-af-piracy,0,4155507.story\">US Navy frigate exchanges fire with pirates, captures 5, near the Seychelles &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a> &#8211; And the moral of the story is: The US Navy is relatively humorless, but quite effective, in responding to your near-sighted and\/or poorly judged displays of gun-firing bravado.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/UI8jVgt6j4k\/different-kind-of-company-name.html\">Official Google Blog: A different kind of company name<\/a> &#8211; I love Google.  Er, Topeka.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/KUXBs1CLkSc\/grunt-woof-and-moo-to-you-too.html\">Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too: Lawrence Chang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/2KyFYanMDTo\/todays-vowel-outage.html\">Today\u2019s vowel outage: The Gmail Team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. YouTube &#8211; Critique-Info.com &#8211; The A-Team (Trailer 2 [HD]) Bande-annonce 2 [HD] &#8211; I hope the movie sure has more gags and action than we see here, because (a) it sure seems to show a lot, and (b) it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-1-apr-2010-801pm.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thu,  1 Apr 2010,  8:01PM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6304,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/retroupgrade.html","url_meta":{"origin":17010,"position":0},"title":"Retroupgrade","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Sep-04 3:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My ThinkPad A31 is back from IBM, at long last, supposedly with a new HD, a new motherboard, and no BSODs lurking under the hood. 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