<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>David O'Leary's Personal Site</title><link>http://www.oledave.com</link><description>Various ramblings on life, politics, race, and humor from David O'Leary in St. Louis, MO. (not a famous English Soccer Guy).</description><language>en-US</language><copyright>Copyright&amp;copy; 2004-08, David O'Leary</copyright><webMaster>dave@oledave.com</webMaster><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Long Overdue Updates</title><description> p I've truly been remiss in my updates for the last few months but taking care of two little guys, running and try to grow a company, and rehabbing a...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:27:53 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=535</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Is it really this easy?</title><description> p Through the many months of pregnancy and even before that, we've done a lot of thinking and talking about,  quot;what's it going to be like to be a...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:59:11 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=519</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Adding to our clan - Gavin Finnigan O'Leary - 2/8/08</title><description> div lang= x-western  class= moz-text-html  The newest O'Leary decided on Thursday that he was feeling a bit cramped living within his Mom... somethin...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:06:15 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=515</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Declan's Little Sibling on the Way</title><description> p  a href= http://picasaweb.google.com/oledave/October2007/photo#5128051337031857138   img align= left  alt=   src= http://lh4.google.com/oledave/Ryp...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:01:14 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=505</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Halloween 2</title><description> p  a href= http://picasaweb.google.com/oledave/Halloween2007/photo#5128043885263598386   img align= left  src= http://lh5.google.com/oledave/Ryp4vn3A...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:21:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=504</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Mornings with Declan</title><description> p  a href= http://picasaweb.google.com/oledave/GreatLandscapeShots/photo#5079285504304751842   img align= left  src= http://lh3.google.com/image/oled...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:27:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=475</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Declan's First Haircut</title><description> p Jen and I have really enjoyed letting Declan's hair pretty much determine it's own path. Even during the times where his hair seemed to be an imper...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:11:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?View=Details&amp;ItemId=470</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Efficion Doubles in Size</title><description> table style= border: 1px solid rgb(60, 87, 94); margin: 3px; padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(255, 247, 214); width: auto;  
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I had my doubts for the f...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:37:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=443</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - New Orleans friend on NPR</title><description>An old friend from New Orleans was on NPR a few days ago... she runs a SnoBall (aka sno-cone) stand her grandparents started in New Orleans. br </description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:54:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=432</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - 6 Month Old Prepares to Summit Mt. Rainier</title><description>We just returned from a nine day trip to Seattle, Portland, and the surrounding areas. It's truly beautiful up there. 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He's gotten so much better at using his hands, he now grabs everything in reach which...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:14:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=428</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Last Chance Ranch</title><description>Our friend Tony was kind enough to invite us, and a bunch of other folks, out to his families ranch last weekend for barn dancing, gun shootin, hiking...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:55:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=420</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - New and Improved Photo Gallery</title><description>I've changed the software I use for my Photo Gallery to a free, open-source, php based program called Gallery. It's a huge improvement over the old so...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:44:05 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=418</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - It's the little things... May 31, 2006</title><description>[FROM JEN] br Declan is doing good. nbsp; He slept his first 7
hour night Wednesday night! nbsp; Yay! nbsp; He did a 5 hour one last night, so
we're...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:22:36 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=417</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - His First Full Nights Sleep- June 13, 2006</title><description>It's amazing what a difference 8 solid hours (that's for Jen and I, Declan slept 12) of sleep makes. I feel like a new man! br  br Another first for t...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:33:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=416</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - 7 Weeks old today</title><description>So we went and had pictures taken of Declan at Sears Portrait Studio. It was Jen's idea. I argued endlessly that I could get just as good of pics for ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:59:04 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=413</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Declan Week 3 Photos</title><description>Lots more pics of Declan up on my photo site:  a href= http://photos.oledave.com/default.aspx?a=18  photos.oledave.com /a . (see Declan/Week 3). br  b...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:02:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=412</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Settling In</title><description>I think we're finally beginning to get the hang of this thing called parenthood. There's no real routines yet or even regularlity but there's a lot le...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:51:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=411</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Don't all infants have a logo?</title><description>When  a href= http://zoe.capstick.us  Zoe /a  was born, I worked up  a href= http://zoe.capstick.us  a little website for her /a ... and her Dad (Jen'...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:32:44 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=410</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Declan's Many Faces</title><description>It's interesting trying to get to know someone who has such a limited range of communication techniques. I'm always trying to figure out what's going ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:48:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=409</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Home Sweet Home</title><description>After a 4 day stint at the hospital (St John's), we finally got to go home today. While we'll miss the ability to let the nursery staff handle some of...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:22:41 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=408</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Waaaaah!</title><description>Declan turned one day old today... he's growing up so fast... Yesterday was a busy day with constant visits from nurses and other hospital staff pokin...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:25:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=407</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Declan Bryson O'Leary- Born 3/6/06 10:31PM</title><description>Baby and mom are sleeping peacefully as I write this. Declan's a big, healthy boy at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 21 inches long. He's perfect as can be oth...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:10:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=406</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Baby Watch 2006- 3/6/06- 3PM- Not long now </title><description>The latest round of contractions started at 10 this morning and they were the real deal this time. Jen suffered through some pretty back back pain for...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:16:18 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=405</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Baby Watch 2006- 3/6/06 9AM- Still waiting</title><description>Nothing new to report, some more contractions, some back pain and other discomfort, but still at home waiting. br </description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:20:13 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=404</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Baby Watch 2006- 3/5/06 Noon</title><description>Well, no show yet... we were pretty sure it was gonna happen last night though, lots of hard, sustained contractions starting at 4:30 AM but then they...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:33:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=403</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Best News Source: The Daily Show</title><description>Around a year ago, I mentioned that I believed The Daily Show was the best news show out there (which is sad since it's comedy)... and here's a study ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:28:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=402</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Oh Boy!!!!</title><description>Jen just left the hospital after having them check some things out... they think she'll be back in within 24 hours... so, he could be coming very soon...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:26:29 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=401</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - More to life than IQ</title><description> We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those. There ar...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:15:26 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=400</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Stop drinking bottled water</title><description>Americans pay more for bottled water per gallon than they do for gasoline... and this when they can get free, often times higher quality, water out of...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:28:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=399</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Tornado!!!</title><description>We had a wee bit of excitement here on November 28th as a class 0 tornado touched down in my back yard... it was quite the surreal experience... I was...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:56:48 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=398</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - House Project Progress</title><description>We've been working furiously trying to get the house in shape for our new arrival (they're very picky about this stuff you know)... We replaced the ro...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:28:27 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=397</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Coming along nicely...</title><description>We're six month into this pregnancy and boy do my feet hurt... As you can see from the accompanying pic, there's no doubt Jen's pregnant. If she's thi...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:28:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=394</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - New Niece</title><description>Brian and Christina (my brother and sister-in-law) were kind enough to bear a playmate for our soon to be little one... Jen and I have made sure to ge...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:20:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=393</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - New Toyz</title><description>It seems I've given into darn near every electronic craving I've had lately and now I am awash in so many new toyz... Just bought a brand new Toshiba ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:39:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=392</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Iraq</title><description>I'm still undecided on whether it was wise to invade Iraq. What I am certain of, is that how it was done was one of the most bungled attempts ever by ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:09:56 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=391</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Man?</title><description>When I first graduated college, I remember having a conversation with friends about the term,  Man  and when does it apply. While in news reports you ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:39:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=390</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Itsa Bird? Itsa a dinosaur? Itsa ???</title><description>Had the second ultrasound yesterday (19 weeks). This was the one where we got to find out the sex of the baby. br  br It's an interesting process that...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:23:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=385</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - The Science of Happiness</title><description>It's interesting that ultimately, everyone's primary mission in life (or lives, for those that belief in afterlife) is happiness. People who are happy...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:43:06 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=381</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Katrina: Bush's short sighted moves</title><description>In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush's shortsighted actions have come back to haunt him. It'd be nice if this were an aberation but to me, this...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:50:49 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=376</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - We're having a baby!!!</title><description>Yup, that's right, the little 4.5 cm blob in this pic is a lovely combo of me and the misses genetic material. We're so excited! Just got the ultrasou...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:49:20 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=375</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Greetings from Colorado</title><description>Jen and I are in the midst of a week long trip to Colorado... neither of us has been to Colorado in the summer since we were kids and we both had fond...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:01:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=369</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Sister Loveshovel's CD Release Party</title><description>My band, Sister Loveshovel, just completed our CD and we're having our CD Release Party on Feb. 18th, at Dressel's (in the Central West End).  br  br ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=341</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Things to believe in...</title><description>So,  Edge.org  asked 120 scientist to state one thing they believe in but can't prove. To me, there are some truly fascinating concepts. 
 
One of m...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=322</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - More Wedding Pics</title><description>I've posted a bunch of new wedding photos to  my photo gallery . </description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=321</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - The Psychology of group think</title><description>So I do this thing called Philosophical Cafe whenever I get a chance. It's led by a Webster University professor and is run as a simple discussion. If...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=312</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - We're Back and Married</title><description>It's official, I'm a married man now! The wedding and honeymoon were amazing, truly awesome. So many good friends came to celebrate our wedding with u...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:12:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=311</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Jon Stewart's My Hero</title><description>Where do I go when I want in-depth, insightful, unbiased information in politics?  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . In fact, it's gotten to the point...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=306</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Spooky</title><description>This is a car advertisement from somewhere. When they finished filming, the people who made it noticed something moving along the
side of the car, li...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=305</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - It's Urkel's Fault</title><description>For years I've been trying to figure out this whole "bustin a sag" thing (aka by the man, "low slung pants"). To me it looks stupid, uncomfortable, an...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=302</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Fixing Metropolis</title><description>Metropolis almost got shutdown last night but it didn't and now we need to figure out a way to fix it...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=72</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - SuperSize Me</title><description>Went to see  a href= http://www.supersizeme.com  target=new  i Super Size Me /i  /a  last night. Basically, it's about a guy that eats nothing but McD...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:29:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=63</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Voting Systems: How to improve the country</title><description>Ralph Nader may make a good president, I don't really know, I haven't spent any time looking at him because, in our current system, voting for anyone ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:28:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=66</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Wilderness Workshop 2004</title><description>I just returned from Wilderness Workshop at Miniwanca where we train the leaders for the summer.  a href= http://photos.oledave.com/default.aspx?a=12 ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:44:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=61</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Photos are live!</title><description>Wanna see pics from Miniwanca, check out my fiance, see what's up with Loyola folk nowadays, or just ogle my magnificent small intestine? The photo ga...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2004 23:51:47 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=47</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Sister Love Shovel finally completed Recording</title><description>So, my band finally decided on a name, Sister Love Shovel. And we should be releasing our CD soon. Recording is finally complete. </description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 01:18:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=31</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Geeky Quote of the Day</title><description>I'm sure many of you will think me a big nerd (or will just be confused), but I thought this quote was great:
There are 10 kinds of people in the wor...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=52</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - I've launched my new company, Efficion Consulting</title><description>I've officially launched my new Software Development company,  a href= http://www.efficionconsulting.com  target= new  Efficion Consulting /a .Efficio...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:49:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=32</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Got Engaged!!!</title><description>Well, after 4 years of dating the lovely Jen Capstick, I finally popped the question on Saturday (Feb 14) and got the desired response. So Jen and I a...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:10:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=33</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Candidate Roundup- updated...</title><description>This is my ongoing analysis of what I think of the various candidates... I'll be recording my thoughts for each candidate here as I think through this...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2004 05:30:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=29</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - I've Gone Democrat</title><description>This is a changing and growing document about why I currently strongly dislike the republicans... there are so many reasons, it'll take awhile to get ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:06:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=18</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - U.S. Held three young teens at Guantanomo for 1.5 years</title><description>So those wildly dangerous people in Gauntanomo that we've denied all rights to.  Turns out 3 of them were boys between 13 and 15 years old that we jus...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:35:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=30</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - News Coverage- arghhh!</title><description>I've listen to or watched at least 6 democratic debates, I've listed to a ton a media coverage on many cable stations as well as on radio. I've read t...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:48:51 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=19</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Broadband/Best Commercials</title><description>So I've got DSL at home. 30 bucks a month and I'm beginning to see some of the things we were promised long ago... the days of TV on demand are approa...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:33:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=27</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Check out my new top 10 lists</title><description>I decided to go ahead and try to compile  some of my favorites...  hopefully you'll try some of them out.</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:19:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=26</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Favorite Romantic get-away near St. Louis?</title><description>Jen and I had limited time and funding for traveling over the Christmas break and so we started polling people about their favorite nearby spots...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:55:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=7</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Bush in 30 Seconds</title><description>MoveOn.org sponsored a contest for Anti-Bush commercials and  the finalists  are really impressive.
  
Also, check out  this article  on revelations...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:52:43 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=17</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Quote of the Day</title><description>"I just prefer to never stray from my comfort zone, lest I experience some kind of personal growth." from  Rob Rybarczyk's column  in the Post-Dispatc...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:56:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=16</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Yahoo's Picks of 2003</title><description>Stumbled upon  Yahoo's! Best websites of 2003 . Some quite entertaining stuff in there.</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:41:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=6</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Christmas Traditions</title><description>While I thoroughly appreciate getting Christmas cards from others, this year I will be continuing my long personal tradition of not sending them...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:23:30 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=5</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Stopped working for the man... again</title><description>So I quit my job again... The thought of going back to Habanero and staring at a computer screen for endless hours drained me. It's not that I didn't ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:57:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=3</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Why I go to Camp</title><description>As most of you know, I take off every summer and head up north to Michigan to work for camp Miniwanca. The reason for this is that it is the closest t...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:57:35 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=1</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Race, Racism, and Black America</title><description>I've been doing a lot of exploring on the subjects of race, racism, and urban black cultures. It is of course a ridiculously complicated issue but one...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:57:16 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=2</guid></item><item><title>News, Thoughts, Opinions, &amp; Stories - Launch.com- My favorite internet site!</title><description>Tired of radio stations that play the same stuff all the time and that play stuff you hate? Do you sit at computer at work all day and want to listen ...</description><link>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:55:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.oledave.com/Home/tabid/22/Default.aspx?ItemId=0</guid></item></channel></rss>