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		<title>That Was The Week That Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some random items from the seven days past: Those who know me will be shocked (shocked, I say) to learn that I did not go out and buy a new iPhone 4S on the day they came out. I like my iPhone 4 just fine, actually&#8211;and really didn&#8217;t want to restart my contract because I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you were wondering what the time limit was on just having people say anything decent about you after you die, it now appears that we have the answer. It&#x2019;s about four days. That&#x2019;s how long its taken for the haters, the misinformed and the general douchebags to come out of the woodwork to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebel. Icon. Genius.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news came to me, walking across the newsroom in what is usually the last thing I do each workday, checking in with our 11pm Executive Producer for an update on our late newscasts that are a few hours away from going on the air. Reporter @DanSpehler looked up and said &#x201c;Did you hear&#x2026;Steve Jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freaking Out Over Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its beginning, Facebook has been changing. In the movie, &#x201c;The Social Network&#x201d;, Marc Zuckerberg was depicted as being pretty obsessive about every detail of the original site. Whether the film portrayal was accurate or not, it is true that every so often over the five years I&#x2019;ve been a member&#8211;Facebook doesn&#x2019;t go more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning for the &#8220;Axe Men&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning it was raining.  And by that point it had been raining for about 24 hours. And we&#8217;re talking hard, wake-you-up-from-the-noise-on-the-roof kind of rain. So I get up, get ready for work and head out of the garage in the car.  I make it about half-way down the driveway, when I discover that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rebuilding Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday morning began with one of those messages that you hate to get. &#8220;Kirk it looks like your blog isn&#8217;t working.&#8221; Uh-oh, this could not be good. And it wasn&#8217;t. For some reason, all traces of my website were missing-in-action. Fortunately, I have much of the website backed up, but like most backups&#8211;I hadn&#8217;t been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing up boxes on the 4th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a good portion of this nation&#8217;s 234th birthday thinking about and then being a bit depressed about our current collective state of being. Maybe more correctly put, our collective state of liberty. I got depressed because it feels to this author that liberty gets trampled over each day, with almost a fervent glee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No &quot;Held Captive&quot; Slide Shows Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 05:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, we had a friend of the family who would invite us for dinner on a Friday or Saturday night. At some point in the proceedings, he&#8217;d ask my parents if we had seen his latest &#8220;vacation slides&#8221;? If they made the mistake of answering no, there was the instant appearance of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wither Our American Dream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the better part of this weekend having flashbacks to various periods of my life. I&#8217;m not sure why this has been happening, other than just being a little melancholy for my youth and having too many things trigger my memory in a short period of time. But on this Sunday morning, I&#8217;ve come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s always about the blades, not the razors.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1901, King Camp Gillette changed shaving and marketing forever, when he began selling a safety razor with disposable blades. The shaving innovation is obvious, the double edged razor was far superior to the straight razors wielded by barbers and serial killers of the era. But the marketing genius was in Gillette&#8217;s thinking that by [...]]]></description>
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