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		<title>Apple&#8217;s One to One Program Attacks Core Customer Base!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched Apple rise and fall several times over the past 15+ years of using their computers. Interesting times were happening when Mac&#8217;s were almost going the way of IBM, and clones were taking up a significant market share, back in the late 1990&#8242;s. The clone licensing was revoked because one of the core values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey Through Google Trends (includes surprise ending)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, one day, as we are all wont to do, I decided to explore some of the comparative possibilities of Google Trends.Of course, it&#8217;s necessary to see as a starting point, in the eternal war of good vs evil, which side is winning.Huzzah, good lives to fight the fight another day, although evil had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Methodology for Approaching New Frameworks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Using Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Adaptations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[phpbb3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many frameworks have I wrapped my head around, Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, and now, I&#8217;ve been tasked with porting a classified ad module from phpBB2 to phpBB3. In approaching a foreign framework and trying to understand it&#8217;s workings as a whole I almost gave up several times. Looking at it from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No AC &amp; Hot Weather? Got a Freezer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publish Often]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100 degrees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no air conditioning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Portland, Oregon, they&#8217;re predicting 104 degree temperatures tomorrow. This is not good. You see, buying an air conditioner in Portland is a terrible waste of money, 360 days out of the year. The weather is tolerable and tends towards the cold more often then the hot. However, for those five days out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s Xenophobic Olympic Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excessive Media Consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publish Often]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuck in the Old World]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[american point of view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it's late and i'm tired]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve had the opportunity to peruse any Olympic coverage on traditional media sources, but the ubiquity of Americans being shown at this international event almost sickens me. I&#8217;ve watched two hours of Olympic coverage, and only TWICE, was a participant from another country identified and given on-screen time. A Chinese swimmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underemployed, or Do employees dream of contracting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empowerment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mental Refinery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drudgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You spend the first six months at a job learning your place, testing your limits and generally meeting what is expected from you. After that, the work-expectation set point has been established, and you have nothing to anticipate besides advancement, quitting or getting fired in a blazing row. There is no challenge, and you go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momentum : Why the first 6 months at a job are the most important.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Refinery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuck in the Old World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Adaptations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effective management techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Momentum is a critical part of living and feeling vital, to always know that new opportunities are emerging and that one&#8217;s abilities are being utilized to their utmost. To make the most out of now, so that in the future, more will be available. To never be stagnant, stuck or otherwise without options. Most employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artnoxious : At the Intersection of Pretension, Egomania and Temporal Abundance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge Fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[some sense of humility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given that we live in a society of exuberant excess, it&#8217;s only inevitable that somewhere along the long, dreary path of the soul, we find those who would use our patterns of communication to judge, delineate and define in a way that is not accessible to the casual observer, only after much study and socialization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to maintain your Self-Esteem at work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meaning of life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to go to work today&#8221; Do you recognize who said this? You and I, full of this stuff called &#8216;free-will&#8217;, give in to the incessant demands of our jobs simply because they hold over our heads the very stuff of survival, a steady paycheck. As if constantly wrenching our individual will-power in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your ONLY Power in At-Will Employment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Canton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Adaptations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work fears]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photo By Donna CymekYou just got that new, shiny job you&#8217;ve been lusting over. Sure, you had to sign your soul away to get it, promising on paper not to do any work in your industry 5 years after parting ways, agreeing not to ever take on a side gig, and accepting a pay-rate that [...]]]></description>
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