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		<title>Appengine: Transaction Safe Reference Properties with Ancestor Queries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick article on transactions with &#8220;one to many&#8221; relationship queries within a single by utilizing entity groups and ancestor queries. If you find it helpful, please feel free to link to it and help spread the google juice. Special thanks to co-worker Robert Kluin for helping me figure this out last week. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2011/08/02/transaction-safe-reference-properties-ancestor-queries/</link>
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		<title>Appengine Files Api &#8211; part 1: Storing/Fetching remote images in Blobstore using Django</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick tutorial on how to fetch remote images with the new Files API on Google Appengine 1.4.3 released March 30th. These examples use Django. Before we begin, read up on how to write files to blobstore using the Files API. Prior to the 1.4.3 release of the SDK, the only way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2011/04/02/appengine-files-api-part-1-storingfetching-remote-images-in-blobstore-using-django/</link>
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		<title>The Cost of Internetting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I paid a couple website related bills today and it got me thinking about how much all this costs &#8211; it was more than I thought. Today while at the gym, I was thinking of all the random bills I had to pay that all seemed to be due at the same time. This included [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2011/03/21/the-cost-of-internetting/</link>
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		<title>2010 Reflections p2.3 &#8211; The Snowy Epic Conclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the story of my truck accident earlier this year. You can read part 2 here or start from the beginning here. When I left off, I had just hitchhiked through a rural Iowa town holding a bloody towel and was chain smoking in my hotel room wondering how I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2011/01/03/2010-reflections-p2-3-the-snowy-epic-conclusion/</link>
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		<title>2010 Reflections p2.2 : People Look At You Weird When You Are Bloody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the story of my truck accident earlier this year. You can read the lead up here. When I left off, my truck had just rolled twice on the freeway at 70 miles per hour, I was standing knee deep in snow, and really not excited about life at that point. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/12/29/2010-reflections-p2-2-people-look-at-you-wierd-when-you-are-bloody/</link>
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		<title>2010 Reflections p2.1 : Crashing Trucks for New Outlooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second installment in a series where I reflect upon the year in order to understand where I am and appreciate all that happened in the last twelve months. In this post I revisit my truck accident in February and how it changed quite a few things for me. Shortly after it happened, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/11/27/2010-reflections-p2-1-crashing-trucks-for-new-outlooks/</link>
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		<title>2010 Reflections p1 : Switching Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Switching jobs in this hectic economy was one of the harder things for me to do this year, but ultimately was a huge win. This is just one of the many events this year that I&#8217;ll be reflecting upon over the next few weeks that helped write this chapter of my story. I had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/11/24/2010-reflections-p1-switching-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Preview of Dim graffiti series &#8220;Corrosion Maintained&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is  an unfinished  preview of the newest painting series from Dim Media, the artist collaborative I am a part of. The series is titled &#8220;Corrosion Maintained&#8221; and is a analysis of graffiti artwork. The series incorporates recognizable visuals from pop culture, original art, the build up of images by multiple artists to create a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/11/24/preview-of-dim-graffiti-series-corrosion-maintained/</link>
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		<title>Turning Parking Lots into Farms in Minneapolis and Vertical Gardening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stefan Meyer of Growing Lots, turns vacant Minneapolis parking lots into urban farms &#8211; a welcome addition to my little neighborhood. The last time I came back from Iowa for work, I was riding the Hiawatha light rail from the Mall of America where I was dropped off. While sitting on the train, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/07/23/turning-parking-lots-into-farms-in-minneapolis-and-vertical-gardening/</link>
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		<title>Testing WordPress for android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to check out the android app for wordpress so I might be write a bit more. So far so good.]]></description>
		<link>http://blainegarrett.com/2010/07/14/testing-wordpress-for-android/</link>
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