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2007-jan-21 hash:

    ec06b3461cf0eaf3d3e4d7a2e429bddb

but then

    $ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocallahan/blog-archive/master/hashed-blog1.txt | md5
    9ba0c5cba20cff553500f034f58d5bb7

hmm.

that said, the others check out, so i'm sure it's harmless.

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Someone said the same thing in the comments. In a reply, the author does not know why the MD5 fails but confirms that the post is correct:

  I wondered if anyone would check :-).

  I'm not sure what the problem is with the first post. It's been a long time. You'll have to take my word for it that the first post is the right text :-).

Different encodings for line endings?

hashed-blog1.txt contains HTML markup for paragraphs, while all others are in plain text.

Taking them out has not resulted in the correct hash, or maybe I forgot something

Neither adding a \n to the last line makes it match

I also tried it with some line endings :)

There might be some other slight changes in formatting which is still missing.

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