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	<title>Andrew Hawkins</title>
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		<title>Bad Communication, More Upheaval, and Other Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t come near this blog in a few months now. I should make a concerted effort to write more, but lately I don&#8217;t have much to say that won&#8217;t fit in a tweet or a Facebook update. My friend Hiroki and I have started a weekly video podcast called &#8220;Bad Communication,&#8221; named after the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Upheaval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks after moving to Fukuchiyama and still not quite settled in, GEOS Corporation has filed for bankruptcy. 99 schools are closing down. The remaining 230 schools (Fukuchiyama is fortunately one of which) will continue operating under the ownership of a company called G.communication. So as of yesterday I am unemployed. Tomorrow I will go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Everything In Its Right Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve got the blog looking the way I want it, finally. I found a nice red theme, and there are login and registration links at the top of the sidebar now for convenience. I am leaving Tokushima next month to take a job with GEOS Corporation in the city of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Facebook Connect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added Facebook Connect to this blog. Anyone using Facebook is now able to log in and leave comments now. In the sidebar on the right, under &#8220;Meta,&#8221; click &#8220;Log in.&#8221; Then click on the blue &#8220;f Connect&#8221; button, and you&#8217;ll be able to connect your Facebook account with this site. I think I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Eikaiwa and Net Cafes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wheels in my head have been turning over a business idea. There are several eikaiwa (&#8220;English conversation schools&#8221;) in Japan, but in nearly two years teaching English here, I have yet to see computer-aided language learning really being pushed anywhere. Net cafes (also called media cafes and manga cafes), which provide Internet access at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=30</link>
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		<title>In Flux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight finds me fussing with the theme of my blog. I can&#8217;t seem to find a theme that I really like. This &#8220;Urban View&#8221; &#8220;Arjuna X&#8221; will do for the time being, but I&#8217;ll probably change it again soon. I suppose I could make my own theme, but that would require hours grappling with CSS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=28</link>
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		<title>The Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my stay in Santa Barbara, my mother showed me Indian director Tarsem&#8217;s beautiful film: the Fall. It&#8217;s a stunningly visual piece set part in 1920&#8242;s Los Angeles and part in a fantasy world. In it, an adorable young Croatian girl named Alexandria meets a movie stuntman named Roy. Both are hospitalized: Alexandria with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Google vs. PRC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Google announced on their official blog that they&#8217;re ready to stop censoring search results on Google.cn, their Chinese website: &#8220;We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Two Weeks in Santa Barbara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I am back in my apartment in Tokushima, after a long two weeks visiting my family back in Santa Barbara. I had a really nice visit, and it was a bit hard to leave. As is evident in the photo, the Santa Ynez Mountains and foothills above the city were ravaged last year by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=25</link>
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		<title>The Problem with Sci-Fi Francises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a fellow under the screenname of RedLetterMedia had been making quite a splash with his 70 minute YouTube critique of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in which he quite hilariously slices the movie into very thin pieces: He did similar videos for all of the Star Trek movies that came after Star Trek VI, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahawkins.name/?p=24</link>
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