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		<title>100Mbit Pipe or 100Mbit Pipe Dream?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2010/02/20/100mbit-pipe-or-100mbit-pipe-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[100mbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Meuller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Golly, CEO&#8217;s say the darndest things!  Qwest CEO Ed Mueller‎ is quoted as responding to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski&#8217;s call for upgrading the US broradband infrastructure to 100Mbits to the home in the next decade saying: &#8220;100 meg is just a dream, we couldn’t afford it.&#8221;  He went on to add &#8221;First, we don&#8217;t think the customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;Exodus&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/20/yahoos-exodus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much moaning about the departures of really well-known names from Yahoo.  Now, I don&#8217;t know any of the folks involved, but if you compare all of the criticisms about what Yahoo has not been doing over the part few years in terms of innovating and getting new products out and or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Gary Krakow? Why is he off his meds?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/05/who-is-gary-krakow-why-is-he-off-his-meds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/06/05/who-is-gary-krakow-why-is-he-off-his-meds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OS X]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wall St]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to &#8220;bite the bullet&#8221; and &#8220;license WindowsMobile or RIM&#8217;s Blackberry&#8221; code.  
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help.  Like now.  I mean he&#8217;s either had a break, or he&#8217;s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Adapt Considered Harmful&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/05/12/failure-to-adapt-considered-harmful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2008/05/12/failure-to-adapt-considered-harmful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 04:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[languages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gustavo Duarte, a programmer and blogger in Colorado wrote a very provocative article recently entitled Language Dabbling Considered Harmful where he reasons on why working, professional programmers should, more or less, stick to the languages where they have been successful and not try to get involved with new languages that come around:

Learning new programming languages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resigning?  Burning Bridges is Always a Bad Strategy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/19/resigning-buring-bridges-is-always-a-bad-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/19/resigning-buring-bridges-is-always-a-bad-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/19/resigning-buring-bridges-is-always-a-bad-strategy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[update: Several "Wall St Insider" type sites claim this letter is a hoax... digging a little deeper, several of the people named in the letter can actually be found on LinkedIn and are working at JPMC  according to their LinkedIn profiles.  However, even if this is a hoax, there are plenty of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost forgot&#8230; I got to visit the HP Garage!</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/02/almost-forgot-i-got-to-visit-the-hp-garage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2007/09/02/almost-forgot-i-got-to-visit-the-hp-garage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP&#8217;s Archivist Anna Mancini,  a private tour  during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Schneier Nails It</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/05/20/bruce-schneier-nails-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/05/20/bruce-schneier-nails-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the Value of Privacy? Everything.
&#8220;A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Meme&#8230;  WTF?</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/03/29/a-new-meme-wtf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/03/29/a-new-meme-wtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a new meme.  I&#8217;ve been thinking about the all-too-pervasive acronym-cum-interjection &#8220;WTF?!&#8221;
In case you&#8217;ve been off-planet for a while, &#8220;WTF&#8221; is often applied where its situationally incorrect to actually say &#8220;What the Fuck?&#8221;  I think is got its origin in a line from the (when Tom Cruise was still interesting) film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Mandala</title>
		<link>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/01/31/the-great-mandala/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zeitgeist.com/2006/01/31/the-great-mandala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David HM Spector</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or, out of the frying pan, and (back) into the fire.
I&#8217;ve just finished up a ~1 1/2 year stint working at a large (and, for now, nameless) Wall Street firm.  I&#8217;d been out of the Wall St. scene for quite a while from 1996 though late 2004, and I tell you nothing had changed.  All [...]]]></description>
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