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	<title>Bernie Zang</title>
	<link>http://www.berniezang.com</link>
	<description>Student - Designer - Gamer</description>
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		<title>Moved in and back on track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally moved into my new apartment, got Internet hooked up, and will be getting 2 pieces of furniture this week. There&#8217;s a tendency for me to take a while to settle down onto a new environment, and this will be no different. However I am somewhat relieved to be living alone. While I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/08/moved-in-and-back-on-track/</link>
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		<title>Finishing that pesky thesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I kicked the whole &#8220;productivity&#8221; habit already, but it looks like I&#8217;m back to work.  You may have noticed that my thesis meter on the right has gone up.  I&#8217;ve actually begun to write.
As it stands I have to get a copy of a semi-complete thesis turned in by next Monday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/06/finishing-that-pesky-thesis/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Gamers Unite!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ha HA!
Some students and faculty from IST have united to start some discussion about game research at Penn State.  We&#8217;ve started a forum at weeklygamers.berniezang.com. Check it out.
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		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/weekly-gamers-unite/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts about CHI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHI was an amazing experience.  Yes, yes, it was in Florence, but beyond the amazing location, the conference itself was incredible and quite overwhelming.  As a student volunteer, I got a chance to meet some very cool students studying some amazing topics.  I was pleasantly surprised at the diversity, both culturally and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/thoughts-about-chi/</link>
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		<title>Academics partying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since this is the Internet and everything I write here will be disseminated to everyone and everything I guess I&#8217;ll keep this pretty tame.  Suffice to say, there are certain academics who know how to party and others who really can&#8217;t interact in a social manner.
I&#8217;m a big believer of taking about other topics when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/academics-partying/</link>
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		<title>Treatise on food in Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah yes, the fine dining options of Florence.  From what I can tell and from what others have told me, Florence is a tourist trap.  The whole damn city is just one huge sink for money to get flushed into.
While it is expensive to eat any where in Florence, the food is pretty amazing.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/treatise-on-food-in-florence/</link>
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		<title>Bags delivered by the Florentine Baggage Fairies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad that ordeal is over.  Right after going out and buying some clean cloths I get back to our apartment and find my bag sitting in the living room.  Not quite sure how it got there, but I&#8221;m inclined to believe that it was by divine or magical powers.  I now have clean cloths [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/bags-delivered-by-the-florentine-baggage-fairies/</link>
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		<title>Lost Baggage and Beautiful Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been a tough journey, but I&#8217;m finally here.  That&#8217;s the good news.
The bad news. Lost luggage.  It seems that US Airways didn&#8217;t transfer my bag, and even better, I lost the baggage check tag on the flight into Amsterdam.  Everyone else I travelled with had their bags delayed, but they arrived in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/lost-baggage-and-beautiful-florence/</link>
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		<title>Leaving for Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to leave for Italy.  I&#8217;m packed and ready to go.
I will be at the CHI conference in Florence to be a student volunteer and also to present my work-in-progress poster.  Here&#8217;s the full abstract.
Also a good friend of mine, who&#8217;s an artist, sketched me up and I&#8217;ve included it in a 1 page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/04/leaving-for-italy/</link>
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		<title>Conferences and Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like I&#8217;m going to Florence in April for the CHI 2008 conference.  My work-in-progress got accepted, and since this is most likely my main publication for my tenure as a graduate student, I get to take the trip to present my work.  Not only is the conference one of the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.berniezang.com/archives/2008/03/conferences-and-europe/</link>
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