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		<title>Kuopio, Café &amp; Opening Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[A call to my readers in Kuopio, in particular.] If you live in Kuopio, or you are an attentive tourist, you are likely to notice a peculiarity of the city in a matter of days, weeks at most. Most locals I have talked to agree: Kuopio lacks a few cozy coffee shops with opening hours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/07/26/kuopio-cafe-opening-hours/</link>
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		<title>Pleasures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discovering author after author who master an ability for presenting with beauty and simplicity thoughts of which many I had been exposed in unclear and overly complicated ways in the past, most notably at school. High school. One of the latest is Frank Close in a gem of a little book [1] that embraces with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/07/17/pleasures/</link>
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		<title>To Bring News To A Boil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(And increase entropy along the way.) The pot was placed on the cooking stove shortly after noon with the brief announcement by NZZ that at 2pm CEST the Swiss justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will announce the decision regarding the U.S. request to extradite Polanski. Since, some French rejoice «Merci la Suisse! Bravo la Suisse!» while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/07/12/to-bring-news-to-a-boil/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Is Not The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday I was back from three days without computer and any type of connectivity. Unusual circumstances, nowadays. I spent the days in a Finnish summer cottage that is built on top of a little rocky hill with a fabulous view on the Baltic sea located a good 30 minutes drive from the closest town where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/07/01/twitter-is-not-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Serving Sensor Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m assuming a given repository for time-series as it is common for sensor data. Such a repository may be any kind of RDBMS. In the following, I discuss what may be one possible way to serve data managed in the repository to client applications. I&#8217;m further assuming that a standard client operation is to retrieve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/06/22/serving-sensor-data/</link>
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		<title>Kiitos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The single most important reason why I consider living abroad interesting is because living and working abroad is more, at least to me. It is even more the more intimate your relationships with locals grow. It is when being for a few days among a dozen people who share a language you don&#8217;t isn&#8217;t an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/06/15/kiitos/</link>
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		<title>7:8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The semester ended with a seminar presentation, one out of ten this academic year. The meanwhile classic introduction-materials-methods-results-discussion-conclusions presentation template today had an additional final slide. It said, 7:8. I asked the class if anyone could guess what it represents, adding the hint that it is not a C:N ratio. After a few seconds, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/05/29/7-to-8/</link>
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		<title>When Things Are Not Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or simply not as we would like them to be. This is a note to a recent thread on one of the personal blogs I follow. The enthusiasm conveyed in an answer to my two cents to the original post motivated me to write this note. The author writes in Italian. To make it easier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/05/12/when-things-are-not-perfect/</link>
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		<title>BP. Oil. Consumers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post equals to stating the obvious, really. Yet, I believe some don&#8217;t appreciate this basic reality: it is consumers that rule on which products and, thus, corporations are successful, not the other way around. I&#8217;m not arguing that corporations never influence our choices. For sure, marketing plays a big role in business and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/05/02/bp-oil-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Folks, Fasten Your Seat Belts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Greek Debt Rating Cut to &#8216;Junk&#8217; Status&#8221; goes the headline of the New York Times; &#8220;Die Schuldenkrise verschärft sich&#8221; the German Frankfurter Allgemeine; &#8220;Griechenland wankt immer mehr&#8221; the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung, &#8220;Grecia declassata a livello &#8216;spazzatura&#8217; Portogallo trema sotto il peso del debito&#8221; the Italian La Repubblica, faithfully echoing &#8216;Junk&#8217; status. As per April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markusstocker.com/2010/04/28/folks-fasten-your-seat-belts/</link>
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