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		<title>Another Serving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just posted a new episode of the Mormon Potluck podcast. This weekly podcast is created by 4 friends brought together by religion, and a love for all things tech. Each week we talk about life in general, how our Mormon beliefs affect our lives, news, politics, and the technologies we love (or hate).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We just posted a <a href="http://www.mormonpotluck.com/2007/07/27/mormon-potluck-podcast-episode-4/" title="Mormon Potluck Podcast: Episode 4">new episode</a> of the <a href="http://www.mormonpotluck.com" title="Mormonpotluck.com">Mormon Potluck</a>  podcast. This weekly podcast is created by 4 friends brought together by religion, and a love for all things tech. Each week we talk about life in general, how our <a href="http://www.mormon.org" title="Mormon.org">Mormon beliefs</a> affect our lives, news, politics, and the technologies we love (or hate).</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mormon Potluck Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to listen yet, you don&#8217;t know what you are missing! Episode 2 of the Mormon Potluck Podcast is online now.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to listen yet, you don&#8217;t know what you are missing! <a href="http://www.mormonpotluck.com/2007/06/29/mormon-potluck-podcast-episode-2/" title="Mormon Potluck Podcast: Episode 2">Episode 2</a> of the <a href="http://www.mormonpotluck.com/" title="Mormon Potluck">Mormon Potluck</a> Podcast is online now.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Site Functioning Normally</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to &#8220;IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.&#8221; Things are fine now; let&#8217;s hope they stay that way.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com" title="Dreamhost">Dreamhost,</a> the <a href="http://mitch.contlafamily.com/2007/03/12/site-slow-today/" title="Site Slow Today">slowdown</a> my site experienced earlier was due to &#8220;IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] <span class="caps">HTTP </span>server and the File server.&#8221; Things are fine now; let&#8217;s hope they stay that way.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Site slow today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every page on my site is taking for-flippin&#8217;-ever to load. What&#8217;s the deal?! Sent support request to Dreamhost&#8230; 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked wp-cache and enabled FastCGI, but still no joy. Are all the rants about Dreamhost right?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every page on my site is taking for-flippin&#8217;-ever to load. What&#8217;s the deal?! Sent support request to <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com" title="Dreamhost">Dreamhost</a>&#8230; 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked <a href="http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/posts/2007/01/31/963/" title="WP-Cache 2.1">wp-cache</a> and enabled <a href="http://www.fastcgi.com" title="FastCGI home">FastCGI</a>, but still no joy. Are all the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=dreamhost+sucks" title="Google:dreamhost+sucks">rants</a> about Dreamhost right?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Merrily Meandering Once More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t really remember when it started, but I think it was 2001 when I pressed the publish button, sending my first post into the blogosphere. Using an early version of Movable Type I began crafting the blog that became known as dotDrivel. Initially an online journal, dotDrivel eventually morphed into collection of musings and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t really remember when it started, but I think it was 2001 when I pressed the publish button, sending my first post into the blogosphere. Using an early version of <a href="http://www.movabletype.org" title="Movable Type">Movable Type</a> I began crafting the blog that became known as dotDrivel. Initially an online journal, dotDrivel eventually morphed into collection of musings and links related to technology. It wasn&#8217;t huge&#8212;the &#8220;cool kids&#8221; didn&#8217;t hang out there&#8212;but at its peak I had a few dozen followers. Sadly, when I switched to <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com" title="Dreamhost">Dreamhost</a> a few months ago, dotDrivel ceased to exist (although it is safely archived and may be reanimated someday).</p>

<p>Shortly after moving to Oregon in 2005, during what seemed like a season of change in nearly every area of my life, <a href="http://mitch.contlafamily.com/" title="mitch's meanderings">mitch&#8217;s meanderings</a> <a href="http://mitch.contlafamily.com/2005/12/31/test-post/" title="The very first post">began life</a>. I switched to <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="WordPress">WordPress</a> mostly because of the positive buzz surrounding the platform, but I also had a desire to learn <acronym title="PHP Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym>. The overall tone was much like my original blog, once again focusing mostly on technology.</p>

<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the line, blogging stopped being fun. Finding the time, and even something I felt passionate enough to write about became a chore. Days between posts became months, and soon my blog was nothing more than an automated posting of <a href="http://del.icio.us" title="del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> <a href="http://mitch.contlafamily.com/category/links/delicious/" title="del.icio.us links">links</a>. Even that came to a stop late last year. It seems I was suffering from burnout, or as I like to call it, Blogout&#8482;.</p>

<p>But there&#8217;s change in the air. The sun has begun to shine, and once again I feel a desire to express myself online. The posts are beginning to spring forth, and I&#8217;m full of inspiration (or something). This time things will be different. Going forward, there will still be  lots of technology related topics to discuss, but I also plan to include more about the things that are important to me (family, friends, church, music), and living life here in Portland.</p>

<p>So come on in. Make yourself comfortable. Let&#8217;s talk.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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