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	<description>Rising to my level of incompetence</description>
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		<title>Tech employment beats the odds</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/31/tech-employment-beats-the-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tech offers relative job security, statistics show.
Tech continued to escape the brunt of the financial collapse, despite extensive business with Wall Street where some financial firms have gone belly up or are severely cutting back on spending. U.S. unemployment rates for computer and math-related professions rose from 2.8 percent in 2008 to 5.4 percent in [...]]]></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>Living with Parkinson&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/living-with-parkinsons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/living-with-parkinsons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Frontline series on PBS recently ran a program produced by Dave Iverson. He&#8217;s a reporter and Friday host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco&#8217;s public radio station.
The documentary, My Father, My Brother, and Me, is all about Parkinson&#8217;s Disease, but from a very personal perspective. Dave&#8217;s father died of Parkinson&#8217;s, his brother contracted the [...]]]></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>When math goes bad</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/02/when-math-goes-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and subsequent collapse of the financial system, a lot of people wondered how the credit ratings agencies got things so horribly wrong.  After Wall Street firms scraped some toxic waste from the bottom of the barrel and packaged it  as a new investment product, the rating agencies still gave it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chip sales drop again</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/02/chip-sales-drop-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chip Sales Decline 29%.
Global semiconductor sales fell about 29 percent in January amid slumping demand for an array of products that use chips, ranging from personal computers and mobile phones to automotive products.
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		<title>Pity the recruiters</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/02/25/pity-the-recruiters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tech recruiters in Silicon Valley are the canaries. They sing a lot, dress in bright colors&#8230;  No, wait. They&#8217;re usually the first to get laid off, and often the first hired back when business improves. So now they&#8217;re being hit especially hard.
Recruiters Are Sending Out Their Own Résumés.
There are no precise counts of recruiters in [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/?p=833</guid>
		<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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