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	<title>Peter Principle &#187; Culture</title>
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	<description>Rising to my level of incompetence</description>
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		<title>Devolution in Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/25/devolution-in-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution
The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four key decisions that led to the crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/key-decisions-that-led-to-the-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/key-decisions-that-led-to-the-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slate magazine is running a series on  Making sense of the credit debacle. Recently Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture blog, listed a couple of key decisions that he thinks contributed to the crisis.
What led to the current situation were numerous legislative, ideological, and business decisions that worked together to create a systemic failure. Consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it worked, I would look like beef jerky</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/06/if-it-worked-i-would-look-like-beef-jerky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/06/if-it-worked-i-would-look-like-beef-jerky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is brilliant.  How do you raise awareness for a common, but boring health danger? Put up a hoax website that appeals to people&#8217;s vanity. And just wait for the suckers to sign up.
A new technology that harnesses the rays of a computer screen to give office workers a tan while they type was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s why they call it money</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/thats-why-they-call-it-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/thats-why-they-call-it-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of podcasts from National Public Radio. One of my favorites is &#8220;Planet Money&#8220;, which is  the best practical explanation I&#8217;ve heard of what&#8217;s going on in the economy. They don&#8217;t track the market, or hype investments, or all that stuff you get on CNBC.
But they ask much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No perfect solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/no-perfect-solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/no-perfect-solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Randy Pausch said in his last lecture:
..engineering isn&#8217;t about perfect solutions; it&#8217;s about doing the best you can with limited resources.
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		<title>FBI saw mortgage fraud early</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/29/fbi-saw-mortgage-fraud-early/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/29/fbi-saw-mortgage-fraud-early/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: FBI saw mortgage fraud early
&#8220;We knew that the mortgage-brokerage industry was corrupt,&#8221; the first of the retired FBI officials told the Seattle P-I. &#8220;Where we would have gotten a sense of what was really going on was the point where the mortgage was sold knowing that it was a piece of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a breath of fresh air</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/24/like-a-breath-of-fresh-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/24/like-a-breath-of-fresh-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Address
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.  Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man &#8212; a charter expanded by the blood of generations.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s my eight-track?</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/03/wheres-my-eight-track/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/03/wheres-my-eight-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just when did Compact Disc players disappear?
Sure, I know that kids these days don&#8217;t buy CDs anymore.  In fact, they won&#8217;t even accept them as gifts!
&#8220;Gee, thanks for that shiny plastic platter, Gramps. I&#8217;ll keep it with the writing paper you gave me last year.&#8221;
But it was a real shock over the holidays to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come upstairs to look at my code fragments</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/11/20/come-upstairs-to-look-at-my-code-fragments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/11/20/come-upstairs-to-look-at-my-code-fragments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam over at derwiki talks about the beauty and creative process of programming. Why, he asks, do we say someone could have a passion for painting, or a photography hobby, but not be driven to program in their spare time?
A well designed component or architecture has elegance and sophistication; simplicity yet robustness. You step back, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching the spam economy</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/11/13/researching-the-spam-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/11/13/researching-the-spam-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An amazing experiment to map the spam economy &#8211; by hijacking 75,000 computers in Storm Worm&#8217;s botnet! Surprisingly, researchers estimate that spam campaigns still earn a profit, even at a response rate less than 1 in 107!
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits
A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers [...]]]></description>
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