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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #8 &#8211; Cow Odyssey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previous entry &#8212; First entry)
Monday, March 1
Morning
Good feedback again from the funding consortium.  No raise from Spain this time out, though.  Apparently we didn&#8217;t fly over enough.

Lab geeks finished their alloy research.  Judging by all the smiles, this is some exciting stuff.  And apparently we can make it ourselves, if we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/10/x-com-directors-log-8/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #7 &#8211; Casablanca blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previous entry &#8212; First entry)
Monday, February 15
20:56
Gila promoted to Sgt.
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Saturday, February 20
8:00
Laser rifle production run complete.  Re-upping.
One option I haven&#8217;t explored yet: remote-piloted heavy weapon platforms.  As a potential solution to our troops&#8217; vulnerability out of the transport, it&#8217;s an attractive idea &#8212; lead the way with a small tank &#8212; but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/07/x-com-directors-log-7/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #6 &#8211; New Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previously&#8230;)
Thursday, January 28
Evening
Goat, Cheetah, and Badger to active duty.
Standing force down to a dozen and a half.  I need some more recruits.
And I need a new facility in Europe.  Ears, at least, at first; an Interceptor as well, ASAP.  We&#8217;ll go from there.
But there&#8217;s no money yet.  I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/06/x-com-directors-log-6/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #5 &#8211; Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previously&#8230;)
Sunday, January 24
Morning
$400K for this Alien Containment lab.  Worth it, I suppose, but I&#8217;m getting down to lint in my pockets at this point.  Talked to my handler about budget advances, but he just turned me down gentle.  Suggested I should seek revenue opportunities based on my existing resources.
February can&#8217;t come soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/05/x-com-directors-log-5/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #4 &#8211; Implications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previously&#8230;)
Sunday, January 17
Evening

It&#8217;s troubling to me that we&#8217;ve confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life over the barrel of a gun.  The existential implications are enormous; the military implications are frightening.
The loss of life&#8230;
Bear was a promising soldier, and his performance on this mission was superlative.  Wolf and Weasel appear to have been gassed; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/04/x-com-directors-log-4/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s Log #3 &#8211; First Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Previously&#8230;)
January 17, 1999
19:44
This is it: our first engagement with the aliens.  Or whatever they are.  
It&#8217;s a small craft near Granada, sighted on the ground.  Helmet-cam audio/visual monitoring active.  Combat log commencing.  Operation go.
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01
Beetle reports immediate contact on opening the transport doors.  Short, grey, big head.  Twenty yards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/03/x-com-directors-log-3/</link>
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		<title>X-Com Director&#8217;s log #2 &#8211; 1/2/1999-1/17/1999</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(See previous entry for context.)
Saturday, January 2
12:02
Guns arrived.  Didn&#8217;t even have to pay extra for overnight shipping.  Possibility exists that X-Com is funded by Amazon.com.
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Monday, Jan 4
12:00 
And here&#8217;s those new recruits.
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16:53
Troop review.  Educational.  For one thing, my first crop wasn&#8217;t a fluke &#8212; this is about as good (and bad) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/03/x-com-directors-log-2-121999-1171999/</link>
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		<title>X-Com, Director&#8217;s log, day one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I have been thinking for a while about the idea of replaying the fantastic classic resource-management/turn-based-tactics game X-Com: UFO Defense, while writing up the experience from the perspective of the notional in-game organizational director through whose hands the player controls the world.  This is an experimental first entry in that director&#8217;s personal journal.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/02/x-com-directors-log-1/</link>
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		<title>I recorded an album: Inchoatery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I spent February writing and recording an album from scratch.  It&#8217;s done and available for listening downloading:
Go check out Inchoatery!
I&#8217;ve also written up a bit about the challenges of pretending to be a whole rock band as a solo musician, in a blog post over on the music site titled The Lonely Iterator.
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		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/03/02/i-recorded-an-album-inchoatery/</link>
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		<title>Album demos!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on music.joshmillard.com, I&#8217;ve just posted ten demo recordings I made yesterday for the album I&#8217;m writing and recording this month.  
Check &#8216;em out!
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		<link>http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/02/09/album-demos/</link>
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