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	<title>Mike Ball</title>
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	<description>Comings, Goings, and Occasional Stayings</description>
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		<title>Architecture Goes Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all packed (except for necessities) and I&#8217;m at loose ends for the next few days, so I&#8217;ve been catching up on TedTalks. I&#8217;ve mentioned a few of them here before.
Here&#8217;s one I especially like: Norman Foster: Building on the green agenda.
I have a few special reasons for liking it. First, it explains how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Crack Dealers Live With Their Mothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I read a great book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics. It was a great book, applying economic principals in day-to-day situations. I heartily recommend it. This posting was inspired by a video of a talk by Steven Levitt on a topic from the book. One of them lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/05/why-crack-dealers-live-with-their-mothers</link>
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		<title>Yreka (The Great White Mountain)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yreka (Why-ree-ka) is a small town about 25 miles South of the Oregon border. The name is said to come from the local native language and means &#8220;great white mountain&#8221;. The picture shows why.
We really don&#8217;t know much about the town, though we expect to learn more, but just driving by makes it look interesting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/05/yreka-the-great-white-mountain</link>
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		<title>Our New House in Southern Oregon</title>
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As I said in the last post, we&#8217;ve just acquired a house in Southern Oregon. At the moment we have a contractor doing some repairs before we move in. We&#8217;re planning on moving sometime during the first couple of weeks in June.
We set out to buy a house in Ashland, which is a small university [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/05/our-new-house-in-southern-oregon</link>
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		<title>Some great work on music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I should have been keeping this up to date, and there really is lots to report on (we now own a house in Oregon), but I&#8217;ve just seen a talk and demonstration that really inspired me. Tod Machover at the MIT Media Lab has been experimenting with new ways to play music, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/04/some-great-work-on-music</link>
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		<title>Idealism Wins One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a wonderful talk by a fellow named Dave Eggers.  He&#8217;s set up projects to get successful adults working one on one with school kids. Check out the talk or his website. It&#8217;s well worth the time.

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		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/03/idealism-wins-one</link>
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		<title>Book: Biting the Wax Tadpole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As long as I can remember I have been fascinated by languages, both natural and artificial. The book Biting The Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic, by Elizabeth Little, was written by a young lady with a similar interest. It&#8217;s a little full of oddities for the sake of oddities, but it does a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/01/book-biting-the-wax-tadpole</link>
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		<title>Checking out Ashland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that retirement would be so busy? I somehow thought that I&#8217;d have lots of time and would be looking for new projects. The trouble is; I&#8217;ve been saving up things to do and things to read, and there just always seems to be more to do. Reading in particular is taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/01/checking-out-ashland</link>
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		<title>Away From My Desk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note.
We are in Ashland this week, checking out the weather and looking at real estate. The internet connection I have is painfully slow, so I&#8217;ll write about it when I get back.

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		<link>http://mike.ballfam.net/2008/01/away-from-my-desk</link>
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		<title>Quick correction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post there was a line &#8220;A lot of people I didn&#8217;t like&#8221;. This was the exact opposite of my intent. The &#8220;didn&#8217;t&#8221; was an edit error from the next sentence. It crept in when I was inserting the sentence in question.
My sincere apologies to anyone who read this before I fixed it.

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