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		<title>Old US Standards</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2011/05/08/old-us-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2011/05/08/old-us-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is past time for the US to come modern with the metric or SI system. I just happened to run across a site discussing the difference between A4 and Letter. It was a really good read and explains why it is a fight every time you try to fight with reformatting in a word [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sony</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2011/05/06/sony/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2011/05/06/sony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been hashed about more than enough, so I won&#8217;t rehash. Sony&#8217;s recent claim that Anonymous is responsible is pretty funny. I wouldn&#8217;t even say I know much about them, but I did read a lot about them during the HBGary event and it seemed pretty clear at face value that Sony was hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>BP and the Gulf Oil Spill</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2010/05/23/bp-and-the-gulf-oil-spill/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2010/05/23/bp-and-the-gulf-oil-spill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I try to refrain from getting too political here, but there is enough technology in this disaster and I feel strongly enough about it that I need to say something.

Just about every plan that BP has thought up involves recovering the oil. Are they more concerned about tapping the black gold or fixing the environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blogging At Work</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/04/07/blogging-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/04/07/blogging-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The company I work for recently published a policy forbidding blogging while at work. From first glance this looks like a natural and normal thing &#8211; why should they provide resources to enable people to blog. Blog from home on your own time and with your own resources. At second glance this is a little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vista Laptop</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/03/14/vista-laptop/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/03/14/vista-laptop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Vista]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month marks two years for my Vista install on my laptop. It is absolutely the best operating system I&#8217;ve ever used. Here&#8217;s what would have happened to me had I installed a different operating system two years ago:
Windows XP &#8211; the next logical choice: My laptop would have been reloaded 3 times since and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shift in the tide at Apple</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/22/shift-in-the-tide-at-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/22/shift-in-the-tide-at-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw an article on Wired called 8 Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special. I am going to breech the Apple vs. PC subject here with my 2 cents. First of all, the article has some good points, but the larger picture is that Apple has fans that spend money on them [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>GM Needs to go Bankrupt</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/17/gm-needs-to-go-bankrupt/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/17/gm-needs-to-go-bankrupt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ChevyVolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GM has halted work on the factory that is to produce the engine for the Volt. This is absolutely the last thing they should be doing right now. They need to commit 100% to the Volt at the expense of all else. I don&#8217;t care if they halt every other production line and sell every [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Energy Saving Technology</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/14/energy-saving-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/12/14/energy-saving-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about the Atom processor and what it could do to save power if used in enterprise. Here are some things that I&#8217;ve done to save energy at home.

Replaced all my lights with CFL (Compact FLourescent) bulbs.
Replaced windows with triple pane vinyl.
Fixed the draft under the front door with a draft guard like you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>What if there had been a tech bailout?</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/24/what-if-there-had-been-a-tech-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/24/what-if-there-had-been-a-tech-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that we had this little thing called the dot com bust. What if the government had bailed out the tech firms as they plan to do to the auto industry? Here&#8217;s a little glimpse into what our lives would look like.

Grocery stores would be online, and even rurual customers could [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Virtual Economies &amp; Entrecard</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/25/virtual-economies/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/25/virtual-economies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrecard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to make another post about Entrecard, but enough is happening there that I feel it justified. While browsing around recently I came across an article by impNERD about the problems with Entrecard. He has another post on the subject which describes many of the problems facing the community. In my opinion he is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Credit Crunch</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/12/credit-crunch/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/12/credit-crunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vonage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not want to comment much about the credit crunch except as it influences technology. I wanted to bring a warning to people who use Vonage about something from my personal experience with VoIP. SunRocket went out of business suddenly and without warning leaving me and thosands of other people without service including 911. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The nature of an IT worker</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/03/the-nature-of-an-it-worker/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/03/the-nature-of-an-it-worker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarbanes-Oxley Act]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive so many eWeek emails that it isn&#8217;t funny, and most of the time I have to just delete them because I don&#8217;t have time to even open them let alone read them. Recently however a headline What Is the Nature of an IT Worker? caught my eye. The article discusses, very briefly, a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oooh, I want to create a new OS too!</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/oooh-i-want-to-create-a-new-os-too/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/oooh-i-want-to-create-a-new-os-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this article over on Engadget where HP thinks that changing the interface on Linux is equivalent to writing an OS. Original article with more details is at Businesweek.
Just want to clarify something here. RedHat is not an operating system. SuSE is not an operating system. Linux is an operating system. BSD is an operating [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arrr! Pirates</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/arrr-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/arrr-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the other day was talk like a pirate day, I thought I would write about a different kind of pirate &#8211; one that uses and trades unlicensed software. When I was in college I always vowed that I would pay for the software that I used once I had a job and the means [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Missing My One Project</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/26/missing-my-one-project/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/26/missing-my-one-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This will probably end up being a typical day in the office story for most of you, but I just need to let it out a little. If you didn&#8217;t read my posts about &#8220;One Project&#8221; the summary is that I was working on just one project last week at work because it was something [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When I grow up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/20/when-i-grow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/20/when-i-grow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good one. How many of us at one point in our lives said, &#8220;When I grow up I want to be an astronaut!&#8221; I know I did, and surprisingly it seems that NASA needs kids to start thinking that way again. I saw a news article about this problem and found it quite [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Project</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/16/one-project/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/16/one-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For at least a year I&#8217;ve been running around with multiple projects on my plate, all of which have deadlines that are either in the past or too soon to be completed properly. It is an understatement to say that we are understaffed. If we aren&#8217;t understaffed then we&#8217;ve just got too many people going [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fire your boss</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/14/fire-your-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/14/fire-your-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managing it]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this fire your boss article over on PBS. It looks like it got slashdotted as well and probably has been discussed to death there. One thing I&#8217;m quite glad for in my current job is a good chain of command that understands IT &#8211; especially my more immediate ones, and I can&#8217;t say one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Important People</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/11/important-people/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/11/important-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few days I went to work I managed to  get right behind someone who thought they were important. Probably most of us in the techie community have some kind of security at the front gate where we work, assuming we work at a corporation. These gates are typically controlled by a proximity badge [...]]]></description>
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