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		<title>Post XXXVI: Upgrade to 2.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now running version 2.7 of WordPress.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Post XXXV: Upgrade to 2.6.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now running version 2.6.3 of Wordpress.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Post XXXIV: Upgrade to 2.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now running version 2.6 of WordPress.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Post XXXIII: Upgrade to 2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like all I do is post upgrade posts, eh?  I&#8217;m working on stuff, don&#8217;t worry.
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Post XXXII: Upgrade to 2.3.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed a couple of new versions, so we jumped from 2.3.1 to 2.3.3.  
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Post XXXI: Ex Populo 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to report that the eleventh episode of Ex Populo, &#8220;Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two,&#8221; was completed in the first draft this evening.  It has been some time since I was able to concentrate on the characters from the Ex Populo series, that it felt very good to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Post XXX: Good Reads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not yet already done so, I highly recommend signing up for a site called Goodreads.  Although I had a lot of fun configuring and manipulating the Now Reading plugin since its installation some time ago, I have found the Good Reads site to be far more robust for cataloging the books I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Post XXIX: NaNoWriMo 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had originally not intended to participate in this year&#8217;s National Novel Writing Month, but one of my inner voices reminded me that going for the third win would help me in putting more of Mejen Knight&#8217;s story on paper.  So, I am throwing out the awful first draft of Knight Commissioned I had rotting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Post XXVIII: Upgrade to 2.3.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now running on version 2.3.1 of Wordpress.  
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Post XXVII: Upgrade to 2.2.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the subject say, the blog is now running on version 2.2.1 of the Wordpress software.
Some news will be forthcoming in the next few weeks regarding Knight Commander and Ex Populus.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Post XXVI: Upgrade to 2.1.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the subject says, the site is now upgraded to 2.1.3.  Boy, Wordpress sure comes out with the updates awfully fast, don&#8217;t they?
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Post XXV: Ex Populus draft completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce that with the completion of the fifth episode rewrite, looks like the first draft of the Ex Populus collection is completed and off to editing for review and revising.  Depending on how long it will take to go through nearly one hundred thousand words, my guess is that we&#8217;ll go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Post XXIV: News on Ex Populus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first bit of good news I have is that Ex Populus will be published later this year, with the first nine episodes inside, chronicalling the first year or so of President Nunez&#8217; administration.  It will be published under my own private press, Hope Station Publishing, and will show up on Amazon and Barnes &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Post XXIII: Upgrade to 2.1 Ella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now how cool is this?  WordPress released another version upgrade and named it for Ella Fitzgerald.  So, the blog has been upgraded appropriately and we&#8217;re running 2.1 Ella.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Post XXII: Upgrade to 2.0.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The blog has been upgraded to version 2.0.7 of the WordPress software.  If you own a WP 2.0 or earlier blog, you may want to visit the home page to download the new upgrade.
- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Post XXI: Weapons of Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recommendation from a friend of mine who likes to read alternate histories as much as I do, I picked up the first of John Birmingham&#8217;s Axis of Time trilogy, Weapons of Choice.





In the year 2021, the American-led Multinational Force flies the four-star flag of Admiral Kolhammer aboard the Bush-class carrier USS Hillary Clinton. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Post XX: Semper Fi!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first experience in reading Griffin&#8217;s work was actually in reading his Brotherhood of War series from end to end.  I thought perhaps that I had read the crown jewel of his efforts, but I was sorely mistaken.  Semper Fi kicks off a series that I found to be far superior to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Post XIX: Messages from Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 50,000 years from now, should humans still inhabit the Earth, they will receive a message from their ancestors launched in late 2007 or early 2008.  The KEO Satellite will be launched from an Ariane 5 rocket by the European Space Agency and placed into an Earth orbit of 1,800 kilometers, which would allow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Post XVIII: Reading and Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever scroll down a bit on the blog page, here, you might notice that there are little tidbits of information on the sides.  I spent some time working on the site last night, to remove the horrid-looking Amusements section and added in a Now Reading section, powered by Rob Miller&#8217;s Now Reading plugin.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Post XVII: The Second Star Freight Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the first few days of the Hope Station: Phoenix saga, I toyed with the idea of a non-military or political story involving a single ship manned by civilians just trying to carve a living out of life in space.  A five page start emerged and was passed around as a means of portraying how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Post XVI: Sixty-Five Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is December 7th.
Sixty-five years ago, on this day, the First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States military installations on the Hawaiian island of O&#8217;ahu.  The first wave of the attack struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor, along with  Kāneʻohe Marine Corps Base and the Army Air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Post XV: December Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What am I intending to accomplish in December?

Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: Ready Five
Start/Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: The Ganymede Conference
Finish Knight Commander&#8217;s 6th Revision and hope that there isn&#8217;t a 7th.
Commission a cover for Ex Populus&#8216; release on lulu.com.

Hopefully, this will all get done within the next three weeks, but I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Post XIV: What is Hope Station? (Part One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I am participating in Holidailies this year, I realize that there are some people who&#8217;re reading this blog for the first time and not quite understanding what it is that I&#8217;m doing here or perhaps who I am.  I did not really answer the first day&#8217;s prompt, but I figured that a post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Post XIII: The Origin of Knight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deconstruction of a character is fun when you&#8217;re reading a story.  Maybe I&#8217;m in the minority, but I enjoy trying to see some of the granules of information writers use to put together a character.  I think the little things about them present a depth to them that some writers might otherwise ignore.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Post XII: NaNoWriMo Post-Mortem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I did pretty well during the National Novel Writing Month.  I was shooting for 100,000 words as the Evolution Writers site had thrown down the gauntlet for its members to give it a try, but it turned out that I didn&#8217;t need 100k words to tell my story.  Just a hair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Post XI: Ready Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ready Five is turning out to be something of an interesting episode for Ex Populus.  Initially, the story was primarily going to be about how Amy needed to select her new deputy, but in the planning stages, it turns out that the underlying backdrop will be a war between two colonies who&#8217;re fighting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Post X: Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the games begin!
The HopeStation.net site has put up a couple of online game for visitors to take part in.  A small community of players has already started up around the Legend of the Green Dragon server that&#8217;s currently online.  If you have ever played the old BBS Door game Legend of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Post IX: Changes to Ex Populus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I had written in a previous post, I was intent upon making some changes to the story structure for Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque.  Some of the changes included the addition of a second &#8217;season&#8217; of episodes written after the 2134 election between the sitting president, Carter Nunez, and the vice-chairperson of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Post VIII: Red Planet Greed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you could probably tell from the graphic in the previous post, I won NaNoWriMo 2006!  That was my second year attempting and I had a lot of fun in writing Red Planet Greed (formerly known as Untitled #28).  Inspired by the many, many police procedurals I catch on television, Red Planet Greed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Post VII: Upgrade and NaNoWriMo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi there!
First of all, we&#8217;ve upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.0.5, so if there are any issues, please let me know.
Secondly, I&#8217;ve begun my NaNo WIP, and I&#8217;m publishing a current status image, courtesy of deviantlore.org:

- RAM
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		<link>http://blog.hopestation.net/?p=17</link>
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