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          <rev user="DaveBrondsema" timestamp="2007-06-30T04:52:45Z" comment="Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/El0Fcd|El0Fcd]] ([[User_talk:El0Fcd|Talk]]); changed back to last version by [[User:DaveBrondsema|DaveBrondsema]]" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">== splike.com ==
[http://brondsema.net/ Dave Brondsema]&#039;s home for miscellaneous programming thingies.

== List of All Pages ==
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