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		<title>Interactive Fiction WIP Progress Report</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/07/17/interactive-fiction-wip-progress-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a project for this year&#8217;s Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp 2010).  It&#8217;s one that I started as kind of a small palate-cleanser after last year&#8217;s Comp, intended to be a quickie adventure for my son.  As I worked through the idea and setting, however, I realized that there was more there than I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Plotkin&#8217;s Quixe Beta:  Glulx Games Directly In-Browser!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a surge of holiday-weekend coding, Andrew Plotkin (Zarf) has progressed his Quixe project to the beta stage and released it for evaluation.  If you&#8217;re very familiar with the excellent Parchment project, you&#8217;ll know that Parchment provides a Javascript implementation of the Z-machine, which is one of the major virtual machines used in the interactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Seems I&#8217;m Actually A Woman&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/17/it-seems-im-actually-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had not come across this before, but there is an online analyzer for prose that purports to determine if the author is male or female, apparently by counting the frequency of certain keywords in your text. So I scraped the front page of my blog and fed it into the analyzer.  Although the count [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narcissism on The Biggest Loser</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/01/29/narcissism-on-the-biggest-loser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin and I are big fans of the television show The Biggest Loser.  If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, it&#8217;s a weight-loss reality show where a number of severely overweight people are taken to a &#8220;ranch&#8221; and put through an intensive training program with two top physical trainers (Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels).  They compete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Facilitated Communication&#8221; for Autism &#8212; Today&#8217;s Snake Oil</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/01/06/facilitated-communication-for-autism-todays-snake-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to stomp on any parent of a child with autism seeking out therapies to try to improve their child&#8217;s quality of life and long term prognosis.  Robin and I are right there with you.  But how many more devoted parents of autistic children are going to have their lives ruined because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inform 7 Development:  Implementing Single-Keyword Conversations</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/12/23/inform-7-development-implementing-single-keyword-conversations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of a series.  If you haven&#8217;t read the first part, you might want to start there.  In that post, I describe how to use Aaron Reed&#8217;s Keyword Interface extension alongside Eric Eve&#8217;s Conversation Package family of extensions to implement highlighted topic lists for Inform 7 conversations. In this post, I&#8217;ll share how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inform 7 Development:  Integrating Aaron Reed&#8217;s Keyword Interface and Eric Eve&#8217;s Conversation Package by Way of Emily Short&#8217;s Complex Listing</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/12/21/inform-7-development-integrating-aaron-and-eric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/12/21/inform-7-development-integrating-aaron-and-eric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Eve has provided a wonderful conversational extention for users of Inform 7. Called &#8220;Conversation Package&#8220;, it uses a number of his other extensions to wrap up as full a TADS 3 conversation implementation as he could put together.  If you are curious as to why that&#8217;s so great, I encourage you to read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Good Eats&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/12/02/good-eats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this will be a special early post so I can get the link out there.  This month we&#8217;re hosting Dinner Club, and rather than our usual Iron Chef-style theme ingredient, we decided to go with an Alton Brown theme. Part of the reason is that we&#8217;ve been watching a lot of Good Eats lately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFComp 2009 Overview &#8212; Grounded in Space Postmortem</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/11/16/ifcomp-2009-overview-grounded-in-space-postmortem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rule 5-induced cone of silence has lifted, and the results are in!  Grounded in Space did reasonably well, placing 10th out of the 24 entries, very close to where I expected it would be (I had mentally blocked out 8th to 14th as the range I was expecting, based on reviews and my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Posting Schedule Change</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/10/14/posting-schedule-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Jonathan&#8217;s arrival and the attendant extra work (and reduced sleep) I think I&#8217;m going to once again change the posting schedule of this blog, so as not to have to generate filler posts just to say I posted something. I&#8217;ll be posting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from here on out.  That should be a [...]]]></description>
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