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		<title>More ANSI Common Lisp Introspection</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/03/29/more-ansi-common-lisp-introspection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous episode, we&#8217;ve obtained a list of all symbols with the function OBLIST, and looked at their internal slots with SYMBOL-&#62;CELLS. While this was useful to examine a single package like, say, COMMON-LISP-USER, it didn&#8217;t tell us what other packages were available. In this post, we&#8217;ll revisit OBLIST, rewriting it with the somewhat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANSI Common Lisp Introspection</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/02/17/ansi-common-lisp-introspection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a couple of hopefully portable ANSI Common Lisp functions that will help you explore available objects (symbols). In this post you&#8217;ll find: OBLIST, a function that returns a list of all objects ??, ?f, ?v, ?t, and ?s, functions that will fetch the whole description or documentation strings of a symbol SYMBOL-&#62;CELLS, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VGWort&#8217;s Shady Business Model?</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/02/13/vgworts-shady-business-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re an author in Germany, you may never have heard of the ominous VGWort royalties collection agency. And unless you had to interact with them, you may not be aware of their shady, or at least highly questionable, business model. As a published author, I&#8217;ve had a pretty bad experience with VGWort lately, since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye, bye, GUUG</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/02/13/bye-bye-guug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sad]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my last year as a member in the German Unix User Group (GUUG e.V.). I&#8217;m definitely leaving GUUG December 31st. 2012, and I don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;ll be back in the foreseeable future. I&#8217;m somewhat saddened by this move, but I see no alternatives for now. Claus Kalle of the University of Cologne&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCarthy, Dennis M. Ritchie, and Steve Jobs passed away</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/02/12/john-mccarthy-dennis-m-ritchie-and-steve-jobs-passed-away/</link>
		<comments>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2012/02/12/john-mccarthy-dennis-m-ritchie-and-steve-jobs-passed-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three giants of the computer world have passed away in 2011: Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Inc.), Dennis M. Ritchie (inventor of C) and John McCarthy (inventor of LISP, Artificial Intelligence, and time sharing). Even though all three of them equally revolutionized the IT world, only Steve Jobs&#8217; death drew the attention of the &#8220;genteel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Libya War is far from over</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/the-libya-war-is-far-from-over/</link>
		<comments>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/the-libya-war-is-far-from-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the rebels now in charge of most parts of Libya, it won&#8217;t take long for France to sell its Rafale fighter jets to their buddies. In fact, it doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise that the rebels&#8217; &#8220;government&#8221; has already promised the countries that helped them to power a lion&#8217;s share of the contracts. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cablegate resumes</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/cablegate-resumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the initial release of a couple of thousands of diplomatic cables from US embassies and the US Department of State by WikiLeaks, the stream of leaks suddenly ground to a halt. This was very disappointing to all of us interested in specific topics and regions. For example, there were far too little details on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kunduz, one more time</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/kunduz-one-more-time/</link>
		<comments>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/kunduz-one-more-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The German Parliament Committee responsible for investigating the Kunduz incident (Kunduz Untersuchungsausschuß) has completed its deliberations, and was predictably divided along party lines as to whom was responsible and whom was to blame for this disaster. That was politics as usual, with every party covering up the misdeeds of its executives and blasting those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarrazinism on the decline</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/sarrazinism-on-the-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/sarrazinism-on-the-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, former central banker Thilo Sarrazin&#8216;s social-darwinistic, xenophobic and racist theses have been all the rage in the German public sphere. This wave culminated in his party, the social democrats (SPD) trying to expel him&#8230; yet miserably failing to do so (sic!). Amazingly, keeping Sarrazin in their ranks, albeit reluctantly, didn&#8217;t hurt the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Politics Update</title>
		<link>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/german-politics-update/</link>
		<comments>http://farid.hajji.name/blog/2011/09/28/german-politics-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farid Hajji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://farid.hajji.name/blog/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last federal elections in Germany, the liberal democrats (FDP) reached 14.6%, and the Pirate Party made its debut with 2%. A lot has changed in the mean time in the overall political climate, as the last regional elections in the federal state of Berlin show: Socialdemocrats SPD: 28.3% (-2.5) Conservatives CDU: 23.4% (+0.8) [...]]]></description>
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