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			<title>Silly Brooklyn Bridge...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So I figured tonight I would try to get some great images of the city at night, including some of the beautiful bridges. My cousin Steve was nice enough to drive around with me to find the perfect locations. Around midnight we find a nice park overlooking the city and I take some photos and panoramic images. Then I decide we should try to find an even better spot, and we find one at about 1am. After fending off a bunch of rats in another park, I get my camera and tripod setup and begin taking my first few images to determine proper settings for a beautiful panoramic. Just for kicks, I take ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:40:15 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Teh Funnies</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Given the type of photography I&#039;m doing here in NYC, I think this is appropriate:

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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:48:21 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Kurtis + Camera + NYC... Day 5</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In case you&#039;re not keeping up with all the important me-related news... I&#039;m uploading shots from each day of my NYC trip to a flickr set, so check &#039;em out if you haven&#039;t already. Please feel free to comment on the photos on flickr or email me with any questions.

Today I headed over to Times Square in mid-town to get a few of the typical shots and to try to get some creative new takes on probably one of the biggest tourist spots. I spent much of my time shooting for a series idea I had involving [relatively] long exposures in daylight (1 second), to de-emphasize the ac...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:37:23 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Kurtis + Camera + NYC... Day 4</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13348/Kurtis-Camera-NYC-Day-4/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned before, I&#039;m uploading shots each day to a flickr set, so check &#039;em out if you haven&#039;t already. Please feel free to comment on the photos on flickr or email me with any questions.

Today I strolled through Central Park for a bit again, mainly around the &#039;mall&#039; area and Bethesda fountain... Then I headed back downtown towards NYU and the SoHo area... And then I took the a train back uptown to Rockefeller center, hoping to get to the &#039;Top of The Rock&#039; to catch the sunset over NYC, but I was a bit late to that party so I hung out for a bit aro...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:04:38 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Kurtis + Camera + NYC = Win</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just thought I&#039;d make a quick post to mention that I&#039;m in NYC through October 28th (I got here on the 18th) to take photos in the city. Some of you already know I&#039;m a photographer at heart, and I decided it&#039;s time to start pursuing the craft aggressivly in my spare time. I&#039;m uploading shots each day to a flickr set, so check &#039;em out. There&#039;s a lot already, and I still have 5 days of shooting left!

[As a side note... Before I left for NYC I installed a 500GB laptop drive in my Macbook Pro, which only had 20GB of free space left on a 320GB I&#039;d inst...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:25:02 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Improved Hot Deals</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13155/Improved-Hot-Deals/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For a long time now, we&#039;ve had the Hot Deals link at the top of the page. There was a time when it was full of really amazing deals - I purchased several Dell displays and computer systems over the years with huge discounts, and I even bought some lenses and then sold them for a profit thanks to the deals. Unfortunately, the quality of the deals has been going downhill for the last year or so... That&#039;s about to change.

We&#039;ve struck up a partnership with DealNews.com so that we can provide better deals than ever before, with improved functionality and helpful Hotness rating...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:20:41 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>The government has spoken. My destiny is written.</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon,  9 Jun 2008 12:45:49 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Conversatin&#039;</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 21:42:27 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Best Buy HD DVD Gift Cards Like Totally For Real</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/12627/Best-Buy-HD-DVD-Gift-Cards-Like-Totally-For-Real/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Many months ago I purchased my first HDTV, and I wanted to take full advantage of its capabilities so I ended up purchasing both an Xbox 360 + HD DVD add-on and a Playstation 3. The format war didn&#039;t seem like it was coming to an end anytime soon, and I was impatient. It didn&#039;t some as much of a surprise when Toshiba officially announced the death of HD DVD, but what did come as a surprise is the email I received from Best Buy shorty thereafter.

The email basically said how they were sorry for my poor choice in techno-gadgetry, but that they were dedicated to my satisfaction ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:25:44 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Rhetorical question of the day</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/12109/Rhetorical-question-of-the-day/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[

Last week I bought an Xbox 360. I&#039;ve been thinking of getting an HDTV recently, and I was bored, so I figured i&#039;d get the console and it would be even more fun when I do take a dip in the HD pool. My experience up until now has been positive. And by "up until now" I mean now I&#039;m not so happy with it.

I was minding my own business, playing Forza Motorsport 2, when I suddenly realized that in horizontal orientation, the green player indicator light on the front of the Xbox was oriented differently than I&#039;d remembered. Then I suddenly thought to myself... Ooo, I bet ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:05:35 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Movin&#039; On Up...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[

Bit of an upgrade from the Camaro. Me so happy. :)]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:50:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Photo Experiment - Drippy-Drops</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tonight I decided to try my hand at something that I've always wanted to do... take photos of water, you know, in drippy-drop form. When I feel like I'm a bit more experienced at it, I'll write up a thorough guide on how to take drippy-drop photos, but for now I'll just show you some of my experimental results thus far, and continue practicing. =)

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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:16:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Microsoft Makes it Official: Outlook is 1337</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was checking my mail just as I normally do in Outlook, when I noticed this...



It's like a sign. I always knew I was different. No... special.

Today, an inbox. Tomorrow, the WORLD!]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:50:26 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>World in Conflict...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Its'a Niiiccceee...

I haven't really kept up with games for a while, simply because I don't have the time for them these days. Tonight I was doing a little random web browsing and stumbled upon a game called World in Conflict. Maybe you've already heard of it, but this isn't about you. Got it? =)

At first when I saw the trailer it looked exactly like BattleField 2. And then I realized I wasn't looking at rendered footage, this was actual gameplay. World in Conflict is an RTS with FPS-like graphics. Think Company of Heroes with a sprinkling of Hell Yes. If you haven't seen it already, ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:50:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Linkin Park's New CD: Minutes to Midnight</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So, this really has nothing to do with TheTechLounge, but such is the beauty of a blog, no? Since their first album, LP has always been one of my favorite bands (of which I have few), so it follows that I've eagerly awaited a new album from them since Meteora came out. Today it finally hit the stores so I swung by and picked it up.

I reserve any judgements until I have listened to the album at least a few times over and had time to let it sit. But, my first impressions follow:

This latest album is a big leap from anything LP has ever done before. They are quite clearly evolving, as ar...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:10:46 -0500</pubDate>
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