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		<title>The Windows Phone Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, a statement of my bias. I am a happy iPhone owner. I have been since the first generation iPhone came out in 2007 and through each of the five generations that have been sold ever since the late Steve Jobs introduced the device by asking the crowd at the iPhone’s first unveiling “Are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Thing from Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all appearances, the most valuable company in the world has survived the first debut of a major product since losing its charismatic visionary of a CEO. While the product was in this case, an update of a best-seller, this first weekend that it was on sale was being scrutinized by watchers of Apple for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thing We Never Get Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a bit since I’ve written here. What started out as an effort to try to write something every day…and then every week…has slowed down to every whenever over the past few weeks. It isn’t like I actually haven’t written anything. I’ve started a bunch of different things, but in each case I couldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Random List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, its been a bit and there is a collection of random things that have been collecting on my mental desktop. Time to drag those to here, and clean up the desktop to collect…well, more random stuff. &#8211;The fact is, that Lorne Michaels didn’t ask me&#8211;but if he did, I’d tell him that the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taste Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, something happens to trigger that part of your brain that you don’t use all the time. The part of it that does the really deep thinking. The part that takes some nugget that you picked up in the past of living your life and connects it to something else to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s just make one thing clear, the series “Archer” on the FX network makes me laugh. As in my ass. As in right off. The animated series has started its third amazing season. If you haven’t watched this twisted take about “the world’s most dangerous secret agent” you have missed something that is worth your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Super Commercials Reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Super Bowl has come and gone to wrap up another season in the NFL. And to quote the greatest play-by-play announcer I’ve ever heard (ABC’s Keith Jackson), “it was a dandy.” The New York Giants capped off one of those improbable seasons with a win over the New England Patriots, and no matter who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Call On The Field Has Been Reversed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the National Football League, when there is a replay challenge to a call made by the officials, the head guy in the zebra striped shirt makes his way to the little &#8220;instant photos while you wait&#8221; looking booth on the side of the field to watch the replays for a period of time (sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pink Ribbon Backlash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 72 hours, the “absolutely not politically motivated” decision by the Susan G. Komen foundation to withdraw $680,000 in “future” grant money from Planned Parenthood has become a firestorm that literally threatens to eviscerate all the good work of over two decades of fundraising by the Komen Foundation to find a cure for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Courage of Their Convictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to keep my political views here to a minimum. Not because I don’t have any, but rather because they usually would get in the way of trying to be impartial and fair in my day job. I seriously believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion, and I would defend that right with [...]]]></description>
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