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		<title>The Settings Are A Bit Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The offset sizes were another area I could experiment with a bit. Originally I had three different offset lengths, a short-range one, a medium-range one, and a long-range one, on the theory that shorter offsets might occur more often than longer offsets, and could be stored in fewer bits. If a buffer size of &#8216;n&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2011/09/02/the-settings-are-a-bit-off/</link>
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		<title>I Ain&#8217;t No Huffman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In terms of compression efficiency, I knew there were some obvious places that could use improvement. In particular, my Huffman trees&#8230;weren&#8217;t even really Huffman trees. The intent was for them to be Huffman-like in that the most frequently seen symbols would be closest to the top of the tree and thus have the shortest bitstrings, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2011/08/29/i-aint-no-huffman/</link>
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		<title>Compressing History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While sorting through some old files of mine, I happened upon the source code to a compression engine I&#8217;d written 18 years ago. It was one of the first things I&#8217;d ever written in C++, aside from some university coursework, and I worked on it in the evenings during the summer I was in Cold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2011/08/26/compressing-history/</link>
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		<title>Wait, It&#8217;s 2011 Already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stagnation of my sites kind of reflects the same kind of stagnation in my life; not an awful lot of interest has happened recently, really. There&#8217;s nothing terribly wrong in my life, but there&#8217;s not enough that&#8217;s right. I need to make a to-do list and focus, so in no particular order: Lose WeightYeah, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2011/05/12/wait-its-2011-already/</link>
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		<title>Spam Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subject: Your elegant watch will keep you warm What, does it have a space heater built-in? Subject: You are old enough to have a designer watch Wait, there are age limits on these things? Is there a pamphlet or legal statute I can check for this? Subject: No watch will be able to compete with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2010/11/22/spam-watch/</link>
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		<title>Once More Unto The Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve said this, but I need to get serious about my weight and so I&#8217;ve kicked off the status updates in the sidebar again. It&#8217;s not just so that the ladies will swoon over my magnificent abs, but I really need to start being more concerned about my general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2010/04/16/once-more-unto-the-beach/</link>
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		<title>But It Still Doesn&#8217;t Remember Where I Left My Keys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the memory upgrade for my laptop arrived and I installed it as soon as I got home, taking it from 2GB to 4GB. Fortunately, upgrading the memory on an MBP is fairly easy, only requiring the removal of three standard screws underneath the battery. It was mainly meant for a (now postponed) trip so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2010/01/22/but-it-still-doesnt-remember-where-i-left-my-keys/</link>
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		<title>Aw, I Don&#8217;t Get To Go To Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a jury summons a few weeks ago, to be held tomorrow, but I called in today as instructed and was informed that it had been canceled and I was no longer needed. It&#8217;s actually kind of a shame; I was a bit curious about the whole process. Maybe I&#8217;ll just go sit in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2009/12/10/aw-i-dont-get-to-go-to-court/</link>
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		<title>About Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently upgraded my server to Ubuntu 9.10, and it finally fixed one thing that had been bugging me ever since I built this system: the audio drivers. The default drivers that came with Ubuntu wouldn&#8217;t properly set the line-in volume, so I had to go and get a newer version from Realtek&#8217;s site. But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2009/12/04/about-time/</link>
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		<title>You Got Your Mac In My Windows!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of the upgrades and reinstallation are done, and I now have a zippy essentially-new machine running Windows 7. The most obvious change in 7 is in the taskbar. It uses large icons instead of a small icon and window title, all open windows of the same type are always consolidated into a single entry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2009/08/09/you-got-your-mac-in-my-windows/</link>
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