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	<title>Bret Piatt &#187; Personal</title>
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	<description>Random longer thoughts of a middle aged man.</description>
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		<title>Why OpenStack matters to me</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/12/11/why-openstack-matters-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to start off with an apology to everyone out there that over the past 9 months if I didn&#8217;t reply to your email, didn&#8217;t answer your phone call, or made your life less interesting by disappearing from Twitter and from sharing my thoughts on this blog.  I&#8217;ll be out, alive and available again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing elementary education for the 21st century</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/reinventing-elementary-education-for-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/reinventing-elementary-education-for-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elementary school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign language]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll come right out and give my theory up front and then explain why&#8230; We need to stop teaching young children &#8220;facts&#8221; and we need to start teaching them how to learn.  The only reason we teach young children &#8220;facts&#8221; is to shape their world view into what we want it to be while their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local papers die first, local radio to follow</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/17/local-papers-die-first-local-radio-to-follow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/17/local-papers-die-first-local-radio-to-follow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clear channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iheartradio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandora]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sirius]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet and the plethora of news sources it contains gives you better and more timely information than reading your local paper.  &#8220;The paper&#8221; still had a chance when we could only use &#8220;The Internet&#8221; on big fixed location desktop computers.  Now that I can read the WSJ content on a mobile application on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic golf: skill games + tournament = spectacle</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/15/olympic-golf-skill-games-tournament-spectacle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/15/olympic-golf-skill-games-tournament-spectacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[match play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[putting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stroke play]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[August 13th, 2009 the Olympics made their best decision so far this century, adding golf as a sport in 2016.  The PGA Tour needs to work with the IOC so golf can go for two full weeks of the games, here&#8217;s why&#8230;. We watch the players week in and week out play in stroke play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise to &#8220;live longer&#8221; but not too much or you &#8220;live less&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/exercise-to-live-longer-but-not-too-much-or-you-live-less/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/exercise-to-live-longer-but-not-too-much-or-you-live-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hobbies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life expectancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So much to do, so little time&#8221;, was once said by the very intelligent Willy Wonka.  Each day we wake up and have to prioritize what we do &#8212; life throws a nearly infinite set of options at us.  Because of this many people spend some of their time exercising so they can &#8220;have more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Technorati bring visitors?</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/will-technorati-bring-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/will-technorati-bring-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have a somewhat decent amount of content I&#8217;m fiddling around with getting the site indexed by more sources. Right now almost all of my traffic comes from Twitter through the initial posts of the topics. So Technorati I&#8217;m claiming this blog: 3s4h7akv62 Now we&#8217;ll see if you bring any visitors! I&#8217;ll share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud computing makes &#8220;blacklists&#8221; obsolete, now is the time for &#8220;digital identities&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/07/25/cloud-computing-makes-blacklists-obsolete-now-is-the-time-for-digital-identities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/07/25/cloud-computing-makes-blacklists-obsolete-now-is-the-time-for-digital-identities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blacklist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national id]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oauth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=66</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A common security technique is to classify attackers by IP addresses or reverse DNS lookup and blacklist the bad ones.  This technique has been falling in popularity with the increased usage of DHCP and NAT for Internet access and cloud computing will be its death knell. Cloud computing allows attackers to rapidly switch IP addresses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why another blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/02/13/why-another-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/02/13/why-another-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started using Twitter this year to share random thoughts with people that seem to be interested.  Some of those thoughts are really difficult to pack into 140 characters and I refuse to be the tweet spamming type that send 15 messages to share a larger thought.  That led me to this&#8230;a blog&#8230;topics you&#8217;ll end [...]]]></description>
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