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    <title>informage: Pixie nation</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://www.eyeofdog.com/QuizPixies.html"&gt;this 'What Pixies song are you?' stupid quiz page&lt;/a&gt;, I'm 'Where is my mind?'. Well, the write-up (see below) is fairly convincing. I'm guessing that &lt;a href="http://wilwheaton.net"&gt;Wil Wheaton&lt;/a&gt; did the same test and came up with the same result.
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#003366" width="300"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#336699"&gt;&lt;font color="#99CCFF"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;Where is my Mind?&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#6699CC"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;font color="#ffffff"&gt;You're smart, shy, and often nonsensical. You have dreams of being famous, and you're quirky enough that you just might pull them off. Some would call you a genius, others would call you insane, but in reality you're pretty well-adjusted. Take a vacation once in a while- it'll help take your mind off of your troubles.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eyeofdog.com/QuizPixies.html"&gt;Which Pixies song are you?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;
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So, speaking of Pixies, Jack Mottram &lt;a href="http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/archives/echo_rss_and_pixies.php"&gt;describes a superb decision-making process&lt;/a&gt; in those situations when you should have an opinion but can't really be bothered to work through the pros and cons. The process is very simple: just ask "Who's a lovely little Pixie?". In fact its so simple I know I've made most of the important decisions of my life this way already, but Jack's manage to extrapolate this into a formal - STAY  with me here - process. 
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Well done my man and thanks for explaining why I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything Shannon says!
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(Oh, and on the hot issue that spurred Jack's creativity, a bimbling project to sort out exactly how blogs work under the hood, I have to say I don't care very much either. And I probably should, being a techy programmer sort, but I don't. And &lt;a href="http://sixapart.com"&gt;the Trotts&lt;/a&gt; are lovely little pixies and I like &lt;a href="http://www.moveabletype.org"&gt;their software&lt;/a&gt; very much so I probably agree with them).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:59:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>sean</author>
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