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	<title>Peter Principle &#187; Tech Culture</title>
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	<description>Rising to my level of incompetence</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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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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>No perfect solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/04/no-perfect-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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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>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>
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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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		<title>I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/08/i%e2%80%99m-so-totally-digitally-close-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/08/i%e2%80%99m-so-totally-digitally-close-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clive Thompson has written a very interesting piece for the NYT magazine about how social networking has changed people&#8217;s relationships to friends and acquaintances: I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You.
There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in this article &#8211; Thompson actually makes the best case for micro-blogging services like Twitter that I&#8217;ve ever seen.
Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Is So Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/08/27/the-future-is-so-yesterday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/08/27/the-future-is-so-yesterday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reviews Disney&#8217;s Tomorrowland in Anaheim: The Future Is So Yesterday.
They&#8217;ve updated a bit since it opened in 1955. But some things are reassuringly retro.
What&#8217;s interesting about Tomorrowland&#8217;s newest future is its focus on what doesn&#8217;t change. This Dream Home future at 360 Tomorrowland Way in Disney&#8217;s original California park is intentionally reassuring. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for your right to TV</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/05/06/paying-for-your-right-to-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/05/06/paying-for-your-right-to-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article in Popular Mechanics estimates the cost of the upcoming transition to digital TV in the US: Digital Television Transition Funding &#8211; Do Americans Have a Right to TV?
The federal government is spending about $1.5 billion of taxpayer&#8217;s money on education and incentives.  Is this really how we want to be spending money from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real programmers</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/02/29/real-programmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/02/29/real-programmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A discourse on Real Programmers by the folks at xkcd.

Reminds me of the time at MIT when Jon Powell used adb to patch the Vax Unix kernel on the fly&#8230;
Sigh. I must be getting old.
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		<title>Don&#8217;t invite her &#8211; she&#8217;s so &#8230; MySpace</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/06/26/dont-invite-her-shes-so-myspace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/06/26/dont-invite-her-shes-so-myspace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Class divisions in the United States have more to do with social networks, social capital, cultural
capital, and attitudes than income. Not surprisingly, other demographics typically discussed in class terms are also a part of this lifestyle division. Social networks are strongly connected togeography, race, and religion; these [...]]]></description>
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