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		<title>Is Google Too Powerful?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay has been added to the Essays page.
Is Google Too Powerful?
2 pages, 508 words, Last Revised on March 21, 2009
&#160;&#160;&#160;Download .pdf (39 KB)
Topic: A paper I wrote for my first year Business Case Analyses class. Here&#8217;s the thesis: &#8220;The main issue at hand however is not whether or not Google is powerful – that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/06/29/is-google-too-powerful/</link>
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		<title>So Far in VA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been here in Manassas, Virginia for almost a month now and to be honest, I&#8217;ve done nearly the same thing everyday. This is what my typical day looks like: wake up at 8 am, sit in front of the computer for most of the day, study for a few hours, and of course have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/06/25/so-far-in-va/</link>
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		<title>Last Day in Hong Kong&#8230; for 3 Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The English in the following post will be broken up, not follow logical flow and may be grammatically incorrect but I couldn&#8217;t care less as I&#8217;m exhausted and haven&#8217;t properly blogged in weeks/months.
Today I finished the last exam in my first year of university. I think I did pretty well. In HKUST it would mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/05/29/last-day-in-hong-kong-for-3-months/</link>
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		<title>Prison Break Ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I watched the last ever episode of Prison Break. Forgive me for being lame, but I&#8217;ve followed Prison Break from Season 1 and really enjoyed the series up till the end so this cancellation of the show is somewhat upsetting for me.
 Well I don&#8217;t have much else to say really except to reference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/05/16/prison-break-ends/</link>
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		<title>The Psych of Waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video my friends and I made one rainy afternoon as an extra credit project for our Operations Management course (ISOM161) at HKUST. 
I know it&#8217;s lame&#8230; please don&#8217;t flame. (ooh that rhymes) We actually made it the day before it was due and the actual filming time was about half an hour and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/04/26/the-psych-of-waiting/</link>
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		<title>Guitar Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, let&#8217;s see&#8230; I bought my electric guitar, a black Fender Squier Strat (I&#8217;m poor), back in October so it&#8217;s been over half a year that I&#8217;ve had it. Unfortunately, due to lack of time, I&#8217;ve played it very little and my improvements have been very marginal. I&#8217;ve had quite a lot of time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/04/13/guitar-progress/</link>
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		<title>TaskPaper Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be honest, I&#8217;ve never written out to-do lists until the beginning of this semester. I&#8217;m pretty sure I didn&#8217;t because I felt my memory was good enough to remember what I needed to get done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Last semester&#8217;s results seem to have proven otherwise.
I am aware that Mac OS X comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/03/28/taskpaper-review/</link>
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		<title>Enjoy the Pleasures of Diversity</title>
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My new project is making a totally new website for NAUTY, a student-run organization at my university that organizes events promoting &#8220;greater cultural understanding and integration.&#8221; 
Basically, they make the best on-campus parties.
The website has been pretty much inactive since 2006/2007 and my job is to bring it back to life. Hence, I&#8217;ve decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/03/15/enjoy-the-pleasures-of-diversity/</link>
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		<title>Daily Websites Revisited (no pun intended)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in September of 2005, I wrote a short little entry about the websites I visit on a daily basis. I guess it&#8217;s not too surprising that with time, the websites I most commonly visit have changed, somewhat anyway. And because yours truly wants to keep this blog alive by updating it with content &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/03/08/daily-websites-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Est. March 1, 2005</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy birthday to you. Stats-wise: 298 posts, 367 comments, 81,347 pieces of spam caught by Akismet. Life goes on.
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		<link>http://www.ilapko.com/2009/02/28/est-march-1-2005/</link>
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