<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916247068204184992</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:51:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Tessasaurus</title><description>musings of a bored, frustrated, and distracted software engineer</description><link>http://www.tessasaurus.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>72</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916247068204184992.post-7555561881306448657</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-28T09:58:14.475-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>distracted</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>self-portrait</category><title>Tessa the Stresser</title><description>&lt;img src="/images/stresser.jpg" title="What do you mean 'High Strung?!?!?'"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update: I just noticed how similar this one is to &lt;a href="http://www.tessasaurus.com/2007/05/you-make-me-crazy.html"&gt;this one from about a year ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.tessasaurus.com/2008/10/tessa-stresser.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916247068204184992.post-6212576757276967343</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-28T09:55:24.126-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>blocked</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>british glossary</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>self-portrait</category><title>Glossary of British Terms: fringe</title><description>&lt;img src="/images/fringe.jpg" title="Waiting for my test to finish."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="sans-serif"&gt;&lt;b&gt;fringe&lt;/b&gt; (n):&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The front part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;See bangs. 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Oops."&gt;</description><link>http://www.tessasaurus.com/2008/09/teapot-saurus-is-brewing-up-something.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916247068204184992.post-3450510204616030691</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-28T17:27:52.009-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>frustrated</category><title>Are you feeling lucky?</title><description>&lt;img src="/images/bottle.jpg" title="Things to ponder when floating lazily down a river."&gt;</description><link>http://www.tessasaurus.com/2008/07/are-you-feeling-lucky.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid 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