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	<link>http://www.forumosa.org</link>
	<description>Taiwan&#039;s Global Online Community</description>
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		<title>flob.me short cut website now open</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new function]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[www.flob.me is designed to help you find posts and topics on Forumosa. Visiting that site shows you a simple Forumosa search box &#8211; the results are presented on the forum itself. But the real purpose of the website is to provide a short web address (URL) to the forums posts and topic threads. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>RSS Links added to Sitemap</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the latest upgrade of the phpBB software came built-in RSS feeds for every forum. RSS Links that you can use in your RSS readers and RSS-friendly browsers now appear in the Sitemap at the bottom of the forums.
Forum Stats:
Total posts 945778
Total topics 57540
Total members 16614 
In the past 24 hours:
New Posts 293
New Topics 14
New [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>More links to the Women&#8217;s Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/more-links-to-the-womens-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/more-links-to-the-womens-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's forum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/more-links-to-the-womens-forum/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added more links to make the Women&#8217;s Forum more visible to potential new Women&#8217;s Forum group members. In addition to adding permanent links at the top of the forum, a notice has been added to the error message one might see if one tries to go to forumosa.com/womens but is not yet a member [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Upgrading to the latest phpBB</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/21/upgrading-to-latest-phpbb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/21/upgrading-to-latest-phpbb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phpBB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webhosting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks
I&#8217;m upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBB3.
If there are any major problems along the way, I may ask our web host to restore the latest 24 hour back up of our website. This means that anything posted on Forumosa after the last backup will be lost.
Be well
gus.
Forum Stats:
Total posts 938095
Total topics [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Embed videos into Forumosa &#8211; new BBCodes added</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/13/embed-videos-into-forumosa-new-bbcodes-added/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/13/embed-videos-into-forumosa-new-bbcodes-added/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBcode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added 2 new BBCodes to the forum &#8211; one for showing YouTube videos and the other for showing Flash video from other websites. When you are at the video websites, they often have Embed Code, which is the web link (URL) to that specific video. Position this embed code between the new BBCodes in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask me ANYTHING!</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/05/ask-me-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/05/ask-me-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[formspring.me/forumosa
http://www.formspring.me/forumosa
Forum Stats:
Total posts 931314
Total topics 56743
Total members 15705 
In the past 24 hours:
New Posts 391
New Topics 25
New Forumosans 22 
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Help us translate the NEW Taiwanted</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/12/19/help-us-translate-the-new-taiwanted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/12/19/help-us-translate-the-new-taiwanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taiwanted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noahs Classifieds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, we&#8217;ve been keeping busy by re-thinking the entire Taiwanted.com Classifieds Ads website. We are looking to do a fresh start, and find ways to simplify things. We also want to make it as accessible to the Mandarin speaking community as it is to the English speaking community.
Could you help us translate the site&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seeing Stars?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/23/seeing-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/23/seeing-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new feature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
You can now see stars in the posting ID area (next to your posts) on Forumosa &#8211; each star represents a year of your being a Forumosan. These also appear on your Forumosa profile!
Forum Stats:
Total posts 878043
Total topics 53822
Total members 13174
In the past 24 hours:
New Posts 306
New Topics 18
New Forumosans 15 
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		<title>Flags are back</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/21/flags-are-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/21/flags-are-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new feature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flags, emblems, badges and logos can now be added to your profile. To add one to your posting ID area (next to your posts) and your Forumosa profile, visit the UCP (User Control Pane; shortcut: www.flob.tw/ucpprofile) &#8212; a &#8220;flag&#8221; option has been added
If you would like add a flag to use on the site, post [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;re back! Software upgraded at long last</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/19/were-back-software-upgraded-at-long-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/19/were-back-software-upgraded-at-long-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server-side backups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our upgrade is done! After 3 days of trying (and a week after my first attempt), I have succeeded in updating the database and files to the latest version of phpBB. This means that we have a more stable and more secure platform at forumosa.

A bonus is all the stuff I learned (and had to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Restoring to back up and then will try again tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/18/restoring-to-back-up-and-then-will-try-again-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/18/restoring-to-back-up-and-then-will-try-again-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin
My latest attempt to upgrade the software didn&#8217;t work. I have asked the good folks at HostExpress to restore the site to our last Server-side Backup (hopefully it isn&#8217;t too late in the evening for them to get my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will continue the upgrade tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/17/will-continue-the-upgrade-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/17/will-continue-the-upgrade-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/17/will-continue-the-upgrade-tomorrow/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Since I finished the first half of the forum software upgrade this morning, I have been having trouble finding a stable connection to the Forumosa server. I can&#8217;t even make solid contact via FTP to upload files. I tried the same connection I used this morning at ElementFresh and then I tried to connect at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Under-construction</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/17/under-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/17/under-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I took the website offline this morning around 6am (Shanghai/Taipei time) and have temporarily switched it back on for testing. Part 1 of the 2-part software upgrade seems to be stable. I&#8217;ve tested posting and replying, as well as PMing
Now I need to move to a new network because these guys are switching off their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Search Page tweaks</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/13/google-search-tweaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/13/google-search-tweaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve added a Google Custom Search box and a Bing Box to our Search Pages. If you cannot seem to find what you are looking for through the built-in search function, try using these external searches: in the results page, you can find them in the right margin
We&#8217;ve also changed our page titles so that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welcome new moderators for the Legal Forums</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/12/welcome-new-moderators-for-the-legal-forums/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/12/welcome-new-moderators-for-the-legal-forums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moderators]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our legal forums are now moderated by&#8230; lawyers! Give a hearty welcome to John Eastwood and Nathan Kaiser, partners at Eiger Law! While they won&#8217;t admit to any previous Forumosan incarnations, neither one of them are strangers to the boards. And while we can expect good common sense and practical advice in the most general [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>We are down for the day</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/10/we-are-down-for-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/10/we-are-down-for-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, folks, but our upgrade did not go well. We are going to roll back the site 24 hours and then try the upgrade again next week. 
I&#8217;m sorry for the inconvenience
gus.
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Missing your avatar?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/26/missing-your-avatar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/26/missing-your-avatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your avatar gone? If you were part of a Forumosan Group, I think I know what happened
I discovered (the hard way) that uploading a Group Avatar *replaced* each members avatar  And then removing it after i realized that happened only removed the group avatar and did not return a member&#8217;s avatar to their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Group Colors have been switched on</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/25/group-colors-have-been-switched-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/25/group-colors-have-been-switched-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I went to each &#8216;user group&#8217; on Forumosa and made the group colors the &#8220;default colors&#8221; for the Forumosa names of its members. 
Some people are members of more than one group, so I started setting name colors for the smallest group first, and proceeded to the larger groups. This way at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Suggest a BBcode we should use</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/16/suggest-a-bbcode-we-should-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/16/suggest-a-bbcode-we-should-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBcode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new feature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit phpBB3BBcodes.com and look for BBcodes that you think we should add to Forumosa
We can add them to the posting box for easy use, or if you want something custom made (for example, a special code that deep links into your own website/blog) contact us at admin (at) forumosa (dot) com and we can discuss/consider [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>More banner codes updated</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/16/more-banner-codes-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/07/16/more-banner-codes-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that the Leaderboard banners are back at the top of our Topic pages. And they have appeared at the top of our Search Result pages, too. We are responding to requests by our site sponsors 
I swapped out the Javascripting we use for hardcode for several areas: the Forum pages, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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