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Wednesday, December 7, 2005 12:00 AM

How does the "How the World Works" blog work?

A wonky, geeky, ranty exploration of how the global economy fits together.

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  • Thursday, December 8, 2005 08:23 AM

    rss feeds and title derivations

    I really, really wish I could say that the title of this blog was a clever play on our fumbling President's words, but alas, we aren't quite that smart. It was much more haphazard -- a catch phrase used around the office to describe a work-in-progress that somehow ended up etched in stone. I resisted it at first -- I mean, come on, philosophically speaking, I'm not sure it it even possible to fully figure out how everything works, but now I kind of like it.

    As for the RSS feed -- it should be working shortly -- today I hope. Our tech department has been scrambling to deal with unexpected fallout from some hardware upgrades we did over the weekend, and their list of priorities to address is huge.

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