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		<title>Tired of your workouts?  Give Circuit Training a try!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me are aware of my SIZE.  I&#8217;m not a small guy, by any means, but over the past two years, my focus has been to promote health, rather than simple size or strength.  Since my &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/tired-of-your-workouts-give-circuit-training-a-try/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=190&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Run to Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda Airport (from Shibuya!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackerinjapan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’m finally able to sit and write, alone with my thoughts, sitting among the crowd here at ABC Brewing Company’s Abbey Bar.  Funny how I’m actually able to work when the world is thundering around me.  It won&#8217;t be &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/my-run-to-tokyos-haneda-airport-from-shibuya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=177&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, once again, My Shibuya.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackerinjapan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wrote this last night after work.  I&#8217;ve been very busy today, getting ready for my trip, but here ya go, as promised.  A more natural thought, less filtered. Tonight I went back to a place I know well.  The place &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/finally-once-again-my-shibuya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=159&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afterthoughts / Pre-Vacation Update / Ideas to build on &#8212;  More in the weeks to come!</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/pre-vacation-update-more-in-the-weeks-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a long time since my last post!  I’ve been inspired to write again, since I feel a sort of shift occurring.  In one week, I’ll be packing up all of my possessions, to hit the States for an &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/pre-vacation-update-more-in-the-weeks-to-come/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=146&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting Out My Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sorting-out-my-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackerinjapan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a country that I&#8217;ve called home three times, today, My Japan is suffering.  Life carries on, as it should, but the nation is currently being held captive by their TVs, cell phones, or their shaken minds.  I rose early &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sorting-out-my-thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=131&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you haven&#8217;t heard of them by now, you will.  Welcome to Saint Motel.</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/if-you-havent-heard-of-them-by-now-you-will-welcome-to-saint-motel-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a devoted fan for two years now, but with their newest single, Puzzle Pieces, I can see the time has come for others to step aside, and make room on the main stage for AJ, Aaron, Dak and Greg, &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/if-you-havent-heard-of-them-by-now-you-will-welcome-to-saint-motel-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=128&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do you measure success?</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/how-do-you-measure-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this last year, but I still think about it, all the time.  How do you measure your success?  I read a book about a year ago called &#8220;The Rhythm of Life&#8221; by Matthew Kelly, and it led me &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/how-do-you-measure-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=105&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Bells</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/broken-bells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t posted anything on here since April!?!  I suck at blogging.  Here are some thoughts on a group I just really started listening to.  It&#8217;s nothing earth shattering, and was written in about 10min, but here goes. It&#8217;s been a &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/broken-bells/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=100&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New username? hackershouldbelivinginsingapore</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/new-username-hackershouldbelivinginsingapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TV commercials announce that company X or Y is the best/most popular in Asia, not just Singapore, but all of Asia.  The country has a "can do" attitude.  A fresh sensation that I've not seen anywhere, since maybe 1996, the last time I was here. <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/new-username-hackershouldbelivinginsingapore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=81&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Taqwacores</title>
		<link>http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/the-taqwacores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this blog is hackerinjapan, however, I want to share this trailer with you.  It is related to Japan, in that a my friend from The American School in Japan, ASIJ, is in the film.  I think I met &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/the-taqwacores/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=78&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If we leave now we can get to Tokyo before midnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The overnight train, which leaves Shimane-ken around 7pm would land in safely in Tokyo by 8am the following morning.  It's loosely referred to as "the night train" possibly because no one I know has actually seen it, not to mention ever been on the damn thing.  It's an illusion that the Japanese use to possibly bait-and-switch us to the ever more expensive, but fast, Shinkansen, or the Bullet Train. <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/if-we-leave-now-we-can-get-to-tokyo-before-midnight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=52&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oki Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Shimane-ken, the entire northern boarder lies on the Sea of Japan.  Included in the -ken, are the Oki Islands.  So on a Saturday morning in late November, about twelve Shimane and Tottori crew set off on a journey to visit Martin for his birthday. <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/oki-islands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=43&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bello Visto</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A seat at my favourite bar.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=31&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From my first return to Japan in 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see strobing red lights on buildings that scrape the sky.  Open air, metal, stars, cement, taillights, and florescent bulbs that light the backs of the all-night cleaning crews, allowing the salarymen peace of mind, that no matter how messy this day was, tomorrow begins a new.  <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/from-my-first-return-to-japan-in-2007/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=29&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A view of the Tokyo Tower from our rooms at the Cerulean Tower, Shibuya<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=27&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Shibuya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a moth to a flame, each time I return to Tokyo, my heart leads me to our old apartment in Shoto.  Can’t explain why exactly.  I know its there.  Probably will be tomorrow too, but this walk has developed in the deepest levels of my psyche. And even now as I write, Tokyo bound on the Shinkansen, I imagine my route to Shibuya, knowing that by day’s end I will have returned to my beginnings. <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/my-shibuya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=18&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I will always Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vacations have always been the glue keeping my family together.  As far back as I can remember, my Father always traveled for work, at times more than fifty percent of any given month.  Postcards from New Zealand or India kept us close, phone calls before school, or well after dark brought us closer.  It seems I learned a lot about him through these methods <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/a-bit-about-travel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=15&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just returned to Shimane-ken from a four day weekend in Tokyo.  As always, I drank some, ate a lot, and crammed into the smallest slivers of space on the trains and subways.  I decided it was time to &#8230; <a href="http://hackerinjapan.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/tokyo-weekend/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=8&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gotta start writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I started this blooogggggg in September and haven&#8217;t added a single word. Time to start putting my thoughts to paper, or to screen, anyway.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackerinjapan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9632863&amp;post=7&amp;subd=hackerinjapan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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