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Save those pennies kids!

<p> </p> <p> With the addition of some of my tax return, that change is now a shiny new Westinghouse 42w2 42 inch 1080p LCD HDTV monitor. That&#8217;s right, pickabar headquarters is now an HDTV household&#8230;and I&#8217;m suddenly enthralled by watching cows grazing in a field at sunrise. I&#8217;m also spending a crazy amount of time on the <a href="http://www.avsforum.com/">AVS Forums</a> getting tips on tricks, especially the <a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=297592">Time Warner NYC</a> and <a href="http://www.…

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I think I&#039;m an XMLReader poo pooer&#8230;

<p> //Foo[1]/Bar[@val = &#8216;gerrard&#8217;] </p> <p> rather than ten or 15 lines of procedural code. </p> <p> Perf is great, but in most of my apps simple maintanability and easy ramp up are way more important that getting every single drop of speed&#8230; </p></blockquote> <p> Today <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/XmlAndTheNametable.aspx">Scott posted a follow-up</a>, including the following: </p> <blockquote> <p> I also received a number of poo-poo emails that said &#8220;use XPath&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t bother&#8221; and &#8220;the performance is good enough.…

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