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		<title>I hate magnetic media&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard drive failed on my Mac Mini web server, sending me scrambling for backups and a replacement hard drive. I&#8217;m slowly putting back the pieces, but a number of images and links are still a bit broken. My apologies and should have them remedied shortly. UPDATE: Apparently, the automated backups of WordPress that I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=691</link>
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		<title>See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has famously marketed a companywide philosophy of do no evil, even to the implied detriment of its profits. It seems that Google has had a change of heart, so to speak. Google posted a fairly lame attempt to refute this stark betrayal to it&#8217;s past &#8220;goodness&#8221;, but it&#8217;s almost laughable to anyone with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=663</link>
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		<title>Sour Milk in the Latte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle tonight just dropped a proverbial Daisy Cutter on the computing community. Everyone is abuzz on the impact to Android and Google &#8211; the direct targets of the Oracle lawsuit, but this whole action will likely have a chilling effect on the Java community (and conceivably MySQL as well). First off, to get this out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=657</link>
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		<title>The Disintegration of Yahoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An enlightening look at the fall of one of the biggest dot com boomers, Yahoo by Paul Graham. Probably the most interesting perspective is the deliberate attempt to subvert the natural order of a technology company to become a company of suits, resulting in the utter destruction of the company (or at least its potential). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=648</link>
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		<title>Yearly Pilgrimage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another WWDC. I generally blog after every WWDC, and this year I&#8217;m a bit behind. Honestly, I&#8217;ve been torn between watching all the WWDC video sessions and taking care of the house of woe (my whole house has been sick or demobilized for one reason or another for three weeks &#8211; including wife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=642</link>
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		<title>Pure Heart, Clean Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month or two ago while processing through a lot of old code, particularly a lot that I didn&#8217;t originally write (or at least I&#8217;m claiming I didn&#8217;t write), it dawned on me how pleasant a world it would be if I could quickly reformat the code &#8211; to make the code bend to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=638</link>
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		<title>Hypocritical Rancor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last week has seen quite the bristling of a hypocritical and vociferous group of &#8220;developers&#8221; and technical pundits. The best recapping of this whole situation can be found at John Gruber&#8217;s blog: initial discovery and assessment. The two loudest crowds seem to be the Adobe Flash fans and the C# Mono folks. Let&#8217;s just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=629</link>
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		<title>A New Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 3rd arrives, and with it, the delivery of a new paradigm of end-user computing. Mine happened to be delivered by the UPS woman, all the way from Shenzen, China, molded and formed in the bowels of Cupertino at the bidding of one Steve Jobs. Even as I opined mere months ago in an attempt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=627</link>
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		<title>Revolution &#8211; iPad, Clouds, and normals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been intending to make my obligatory post about the iPad. I mean, how can you have a technical blog with an Apple bent and not? Fortunately, Frasier Spiers has already done a good job at capturing many of my thoughts. (UPDATE: Another good post by Steven Frank) Even though the &#8220;closed-ness&#8221; of the iPad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=623</link>
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		<title>Welcome to 1984, Google!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faux pas extraordinaire from Google CEO Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don&#8217;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#8217;t be doing it in the first place. Not that I&#8217;ve trusted Google and it&#8217;s supposed &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Evil&#8221; policy (see my numerous previous blog entries), but this comment is really short-sighted. Unfortunately, most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=497</link>
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		<title>iPhone App Purgatory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This sure does make me want to develop iPhone applications &#8211; Apple&#8217;s continued asshattery in regards to its treatment of developers. The iPhone&#8217;s biggest enemy? Apple. The platform and the applications are what are driving the success of the iPhone. Microsoft had one thing right a few years back: Developers! Developers! Developers! Ok, I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=481</link>
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		<title>There really are no Mac viruses&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I certainly would never state that Mac OS X can not be infected by a virus &#8211; it absolutely could &#8211; it&#8217;s also fallacious to think that the only reason it doesn&#8217;t is due to it&#8217;s lesser penetration in the market versus its more popular (in volume sales) counterpart, Windows. The fact of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=453</link>
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		<title>Will Work for Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indie Mac developer Manton Reece has it right. This was exactly the motivation I needed to stop procrastinating and twiddling away my time that should have been dedicated to more productive pursuits. Time to fire up Xcode.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Do it!  Do it now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to those who got that Arnold reference&#8230; Shameless plug: Pre-order your Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Family Pack (5-User) from Amazon with these links and I get a few pennies to help pay to keep the lights on while you get the best price (and best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=449</link>
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		<title>Apple Arrogance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like Apple products &#8211; particularly their OS (be it for the Mac or the iPhone). I&#8217;ve never been particularly fond of Apple the company &#8211; primarily due to their apparent indifference to developers and even customers &#8211; an almost elite aloofness that states, we&#8217;re better than you, our products are superior &#8211; you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=445</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome OS Undocumented Feature List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is awesome&#8230;and creepily somewhat true. UPDATE: More fun parody and comedy at Google&#8217;s expense from Fake Steve Jobs, some not so fun poking at the frightening behemoth that Google has become and its invasive nature (which I&#8217;ve belabored before &#8211; see Buy a Good Tinfoil Hat, Tinfoil Redux and Dark Clouds), and some pissed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=437</link>
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		<title>Google OS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Android wasn&#8217;t enough, now we have Google Chrome OS. Welcome to the wonderfully bland, drab and unpleasant world of ubiquitous web applications. You can pry my native applications and my OS tailored for user experience (not one tailored to said companies cloud services) from my cold, dead fingers. Funny, one of my longest posts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=425</link>
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		<title>La la la..  ignore the Pandora in the window&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Pandora will live another day [in the U.S.] Head in the sand, dying technology, idiot comment of the day by National Association of Broadcasters guy: &#8220;This is good for music,&#8221; said Dennis Wharton, the executive vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters. &#8220;It sets a rate where artists will receive royalities for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=423</link>
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		<title>A few more seconds&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year at WWDC I had a near out of body experience. I related most of that here. To recap, I used some software that I work with at my day job (Landmark Digital Services) that I had shoehorned into an iPhone to identify a number of songs at an event at the Apple WWDC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=421</link>
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		<title>Dark Clouds&#8230; bring hailstorms&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another in a series of serious warning flags about cloud computing&#8230; Centralized authority, centralized power, centralized control, centralized data, centralized risk&#8230; BAD. BAD. BAD. How many times can the industry keep returning to the burned out husk of central vs distributed computing. Seems we&#8217;re constantly being herded back to the mainframe. UPDATE: More #googlefail articles: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeisrich.org/?p=417</link>
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