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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED! Poll Results Added. I am working in a different medium nowadays, using DITA. The company I work for has some standards that are a little different than I have seen in quite a few years of working in this field. The formatting and layouts I am working with are more common in Framemaker shops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcomtopics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1355877&amp;post=18&amp;subd=techcomtopics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we purchased a new coffee maker for home to replace the five-year old brewer that had given up the ghost. The new coffee maker lasted exactly three days before the basket broke along the top rim, which made it fit poorly, and the latch broke that secured the swing-out brewer basket in place. The only way to make coffee was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcomtopics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1355877&amp;post=12&amp;subd=techcomtopics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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