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	<description>**the pursuit of the pursuit of eternal happiness**</description>
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		<title>I feel blessed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got promoted again today&#8230;that&#8217;s not why I feel blessed though. Nine months ago, I found myself wallowing in a depression, the likes of which I had not experienced since before I was saved. In the passing weeks and months, He has blessed me time and time again, but&#8230; I always found myself thinking back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/07/28/i-feel-blessed/</link>
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		<title>iPhone vs. Android; Apples and Oranges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (Pun fully intended) I keep hearing all this fuss about Android and how it&#8217;s gaining ground on iPhone and how it has surpasses iPhone sales and how it&#8217;s the saviour of all things in smartphones and blah, blah, blah&#8230;The problem is that when pundits are comparing iPhone and Android, they are not comparing like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/06/19/iphone-vs-android-apples-and-oranges/</link>
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		<title>What is happening in China??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean, besides the obvious&#8230; I&#8217;ve long since had &#8220;issues&#8221; with China, from their deplorable human rights record, to the way they devalue their currency and to the way they pretend to be on par with the Western leaders of the world, yet refuse to take the responsibilities that come with that when it comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/24/what-is-happening-in-china/</link>
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		<title>The iPad&#8230;still unimpressed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my iPhone&#8217;s glass cracked, I ventured on a trip to the Apple store. I had been avoiding this for a while to keep my adoration for iPhone from pushing me into purchasing a MacBook or something worse. Lately, the major cause for stay had been because of the &#8220;magical&#8221; iPad. I&#8217;ll say this first: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/12/the-ipad-still-unimpressed/</link>
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		<title>Cracked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My iPhone slipped on some haphazardly laying items on my kitchen table and crashed upon the kitchen tiles. I can replay the moment over and over in my head and, each time it plays in slow motion as the single most important object in my life hit the floor and cracked. It is still very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/11/cracked/</link>
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		<title>An update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because it was time. I&#8217;ve not written on this blog in almost a year. Not for lack of love, I might say. I&#8217;ve got at least seven drafted posts just sitting and waiting; most are completely outdated by now. No, the absence of writing was mostly due to simply too darn much happening at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2010/05/09/an-update/</link>
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		<title>Well played, Old Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t make it to church today. This time last year, such a statement would have initiated a barrage of texts, e-mails and phone calls regarding my whereabouts that I would have felt it necessary to release a public statement to let my family know that I was okay. Nowadays, however, things are different. No [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/07/19/well-played-old-man/</link>
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		<title>Oh, the irony!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8141867.stm Now, my previous post: http://blog.doriennesmith.com/?p=386 I had originally planned this gushing, love-filled post about Michael Jackson (and, surely that will follow in the days to come), but this is current and reeks of a hypocrisy so blatant, that I could not allow it to pass without mention. Not six months ago, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/07/09/oh-the-irony/</link>
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		<title>A three-year accomplishment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks three years since I joined my church! I sometimes mention this to some people and they either don&#8217;t care or just don&#8217;t find it terribly significant. For me, however, May 14th is like a birthday. Three years ago, on a Mother&#8217;s Day Sunday, I decided to come to church with my mother because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/05/14/three-and-five-year-accomplishments/</link>
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		<title>Saved from my own harm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I experienced an incident yesterday that happened several months earlier in a similar fashion and, once again, found myself&#8230;for lack of a better word: pleased to find that Christ had delivered me from myself yet again. I have a way of getting ahead of myself, allowing my emotions to take control of my tongue (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/04/26/saved-from-my-own-harm/</link>
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		<title>Oh&#8230;this is rich.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My disgust for China has been mounting over the past few years, culminating to near outrage in August 2008 and has been teetering there ever since. What riles me this morning is China&#8217;s obvious mudslinging in a report drafted just two days after we (the US) published a report that stated the obvious: China&#8217;s human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/02/27/ohthis-is-rich/</link>
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		<title>25 random things about Dorienne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of doing things because &#8220;everyone else is doing it,&#8221; and since I have been tagged several times with this, I have created one of these lists: 1.) I am a computer nerd. I love everything about programming and teaching myself new things through trial and error just gets me all a-tingle. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/02/12/25-random-things-about-dorienne/</link>
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		<title>Oh&#8230;bama&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7868303.stm Honestly, I really am an optimist; I just hate being surprised. A part of me hopes and wishes that the Obama Presidency (Man! I just don&#8217;t like the sound of that) will turn our country down a brighter path, but less than a month into this the cup looks amazingly half-empty and I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/02/03/ohbama/</link>
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		<title>I can haz pseudo-Interwebs wit in my House Speaker nao?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with many people, I have not been following politics as closely as I had pre-Nov 4, 2008, but every now and again, I run into things that just make me laugh out loud&#8230;in utter disgust. First things first: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7829475.stm Obama&#8230;you baffle me, too. I mean honestly! A liberal politician may walk around stating that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/01/14/i-can-haz-pseudo-interwebs-wit-in-my-house-speaker-nao/</link>
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		<title>Obligatory New Year&#8217;s post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this article, making New Year&#8217;s resolutions often do more harm than good. What people mostly experience is that they can never live up to the high expectations they set for themselves and become depressed and embittered as the year continues because they fell off this bandwagon or went right back to doing what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.doriennesmith.com/2009/01/01/new-years-post/</link>
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