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+---
+title: <%= @title %>
+date: <%= @date.strftime('%F') %>
+tags:
+poster: /assets/img/bg/brickwall_@2X.png
+published: false
+---
+.row
+  .col-sm-12
+    - if is_blog_article?
+      %h2 <%= @title.titleize %>
+
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+---
+title: Podcasts
+date: 2014-09-20
+tags: about
+poster: /assets/img/bg/retina_wood_@2X.png
+---
+.row
+  .col-sm-12
+    - if is_blog_article?
+      %h2 Podcasts
+    %p Just a list of podcasts I frequent (in order of preference)
+
+    %h4 Current
+    %ul
+      %li= link_to 'Ruby Rogues', 'http://rubyrogues.com'
+      %li= link_to 'Ruby 5', 'http://ruby5.envylabs.com'
+      %li= link_to 'Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots', 'http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots'
+      -# %li= link_to 'JS Jabber', 'http://www.devchat.tv/js-jabber'
+      %li= link_to 'Back to Work', 'http://5by5.tv/b2w'
+      %li= link_to 'The Poo-edcast', 'http://adamryanmorrison.com/podcast/'
+      %li= link_to 'You Need A Budget', 'http://www.youneedabudget.com/blog/c/podcast/'
+      %li= link_to 'Ruby on Rails Podcast', 'http://5by5.tv/rubyonrails'
+
+    %h4 Past Gems
+    %ul
+      %li= link_to 'That Post Show', 'http://thatpostshow.com'
+      %li= link_to 'The RC',         'http://www.fxguide.com/podcasts/'
+      %li= link_to 'The VFX Show',   'http://www.fxguide.com/podcasts/'
diff --git a/source/blog/uncle_bob.html.haml b/source/blog/uncle_bob.html.haml
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+---
+title: uncle_bob
+date: 2014-09-20
+tags:
+poster: /assets/img/bg/brickwall_@2X.png
+published: false
+---
+.row
+  .col-sm-12
+    - if is_blog_article?
+      %h2 Uncle Bob
+
diff --git a/source/shared/_blog_list.html.haml b/source/shared/_blog_list.html.haml
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+.spacer-50
+.side-links
+  %ul
+    %li.bolder Recent Posts
+    - blog.articles[0...10].each do |article|
+      %li
+        = link_to article.title.titleize, article
+
+  %ul
+    %li Tags
+    - blog.tags.each do |tag, articles|
+      %li= link_to "#{tag.titleize}", tag_path(tag)