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One Response to “Back from Hokkaido travels, quick blog update for now”

1. Kimpatsu Says:
   September 1st, 2010 at 8:06 am

   Hey, how come my joke computer script didn’t come out?
   Sorry to do less updates last month
   [pedant]
   That should read “fewer updates”.
   [/pedant]

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