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	<title>a monochromatic oeuvre</title>
	<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com</link>
	<description>Light hearted ramblings from a Computer Science major.</description>
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		<title>Fibonacci functions and Dynamic Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bhargav and I had a short discussion regarding Fibonacci number generating functions over winter break and I recently answered an interview question along the same vein, so I guess its a question worth looking at:
The recursive formula for the generation of the nth Fibonacci number Fn is Fn =  Fn-1 +  Fn-2, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2010/02/20/fibonacci-functions-and-dynamic-programming/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Spam?*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time in mid-February, I got tired of my spam filter&#8217;s many false positives and decided to turn it off. I preferred having to sift through 10-20 spam emails by hand than risk missing an important email falsely flagged and blocked. An additional bonus was the entertainment value of new and novel spam. Over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/07/09/poetry-spam/</link>
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		<title>Testing Google&#8217;s PHP optimization tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Google posted a series of articles titled &#8220;Let&#8217;s make the web faster&#8220;, including one by Google webmaster Eric Higgins about optimizing PHP.
Some of Google&#8217;s tips are obvious, like using caching or avoiding unnecessary SQL queries. A couple, however, seemed pretty weird to me, so I ran some benchmarks to check them out for myself. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/06/27/testing-googles-php-optimization-tips/</link>
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		<title>Writing a keygen: Hacker challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a hacker challenge posed by blogger Andy Sloane last night.  He explained how, as a hobby, likes to try to crack or create key generators for commercial programs.  Naturally, he never distributes these cracks, but is only doing it for the intellectual challenge.  Writing a key generator is usually more useful than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/04/01/writing-a-keygen-hacker-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Good password habits?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cardinary Sins of Passwords

 Using short passwords with few numbers or special characters.
 Using the same password for many things (or everything).
 Rarely (or never) changing passwords.
 Using a name or common phrase in a password.

If you&#8217;re guilty of one or more of these bad password habits, raise your hand!
*Raises hand*
Despite being (I think) very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/03/05/good-password-habits/</link>
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		<title>Replacing TwitterIM with my own bot.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TwitterIM:  TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.
Twitter&#8217;s AIM bot, TwitterIM, has been &#8220;under maintenance&#8221; for as long as I can remember.  The last time it worked for me was in January 2008, and I have been &#8220;checking back later&#8221; periodically since.  Personally, I do not have high hopes for it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/01/07/replacing-twitterim-with-my-own-bot/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Blackjack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hm, I should probably learn Ruby.&#8221;
I probably first said this about a year and a half ago when Ruby and Ruby on Rails were &#8220;in&#8221;, the cool new (relatively, anyways, Ruby was written in 1995) language and the easy to use web application framework that went along with it.  In the year and a half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2009/01/06/ruby-blackjack/</link>
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		<title>All your info are belong to Facebook (and Google)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But what about interesting things that you do on other sites? Maybe you commented on a blog or dugg an article on Digg. Maybe you put up something for auction on eBay, or found a video you love and wanted to share it. Wouldn’t it be nice if when you were on another site, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2008/12/04/all-your-info-are-belong-to-facebook-and-google/</link>
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		<title>Halloween!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t update very much, do I?
Blogs are hard. Oh well. Halloween happened! Here is a picture of me and Dana.
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		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2008/11/08/halloween/</link>
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		<title>My dorm room&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I arrived at school expecting to set up my room in about the same way as I had the year before.  My roommate and I would have our beds set up in a Captain&#8217;s bed style on opposite sides of the room along the shorter wall, with our desks along the longer wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.marquiswang.com/2008/09/09/my-room/</link>
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