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    <title>Happy New Year!  Now what?</title>
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    <author>nospam@example.com (Don Chambers)</author>
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    &lt;!-- s9ymdb:72 --&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;image_left&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; style=&quot;float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.optional-necessity.com/uploads/entry-graphics/2008-2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;Here in the United States, it seems the 5 - 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year&#039;s Day is mostly about excess.  Excessive eating, drinking, spending, visiting, partying.... It is a great way to end a year!!  But now that another year has passed, and with it the year-ending excesses, it is time for me to think about some (definitely not all) of what I want to accomplish in 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

This site only existed for the final 2 months of 2007.  The direction at launch was to serve as a platform for releasing my own personal serendipity templates, as well as discuss and promote concepts and tools that make site design productive, somewhat innovative and maybe even fun.  Looking forward, I want to spend more time focusing on new ideas and taking them to completion.  I also need to make sure my non-development projects receive fair attention.  These are in no particular order of priority: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.optional-necessity.com/archives/7-Happy-New-Year!-Now-what.html#extended&quot;&gt;Continue reading &quot;Happy New Year!  Now what?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:58:49 -0700</pubDate>
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    <title>New Serendipity Template Site Launched!</title>
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    <author>nospam@example.com (Don Chambers)</author>
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    This site will feature my contributions to the blog engine &lt;a onclick=&quot;javascript:urchinTracker(&#039;/extlink/www.s9y.org/&#039;);&quot; href=&quot;http://www.s9y.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Serendipity Weblog System&quot;&gt;Serendipity&lt;/a&gt;, particularly serendipity templates.  I am a firm believer in this particular open source project and contribute to it as much as my experience and time will permit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Woven into my &lt;a onclick=&quot;javascript:urchinTracker(&#039;/extlink/www.s9y.org/&#039;);&quot; href=&quot;http://www.s9y.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Serendipity Weblog System&quot;&gt;Serendipity&lt;/a&gt; template contributions may be pieces of my personal life, annecdotes or perspective on anything that happens to catch my interest.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please be patient!  Development of this site is happening simultaneously to my &lt;a onclick=&quot;javascript:urchinTracker(&#039;/extlink/www.s9y.org/&#039;);&quot; href=&quot;http://www.s9y.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Serendipity Weblog System&quot;&gt;Serendipity&lt;/a&gt; template and plugin developments, so it might take a bit longer than I like to get this site packed with valuable content.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I trust you will visit frequently and help spread/feed the news!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Regards,&lt;br /&gt;
=Don Chambers=&lt;br /&gt;
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:14:00 -0700</pubDate>
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