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	<title>Bret Piatt</title>
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	<description>Random longer thoughts of a middle aged man.</description>
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		<title>Advertising isn&#8217;t the only business model for websites</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ad blocker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[print media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post by Ken Fisher at Ars Technica stirred up quite the hornet&#8217;s nest.  Brian Carper replied that, &#8220;Advertising is devastating to my well-being&#8221;.  Rob Sayre chimed in on the Mozilla Blog about, &#8220;Why Ad Blockers Work&#8221;.  All three of these were picked up by Hacker News and became some of the most commented threads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to tell the difference between &#8220;cloud&#8221; and &#8220;virtualization&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reductive labs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people seem to think &#8220;cloud&#8221; is just off-premise &#8220;virtualization&#8221;.  Cloud comes in a few flavors and I&#8217;ll argue that you can have &#8220;private cloud&#8221; either hosted off-premise in a provider&#8217;s facility or in your own.  The fundamental difference between cloud and virtualization is the goal of cloud is to automate provisioning (this applies to [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></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>Public clouds and their features, followed by the future of cloud computing hardware</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Force.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juniper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenFlow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to break this post up into two sections, the first will discuss public clouds and their features focused on advanced networking as an example.  The second portion will look at the future of cloud computing hardware &#8212; both networking and computing.
Public Clouds and Feature Selection
A discussion started on Twitter today after Werner Vogels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every developer should learn the OSI model</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JDBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSI model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software developer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web application architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The OSI model is a great way to learn to layered design so components can be refactored or replaced without a complete system redesign.   This will also allow for a project to be broken up into separate teams in the future as they&#8217;ll have a clear understanding of their upstream and downstream requirements.  Beyond being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Availability is a fundamental design concept</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[failover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[system architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today a conversation on Twitter with Christopher Hoff (@Beaker), James Watters (@wattersjames), George Reese (@georgereese), Benjamin Black (@benjaminblack), and Shlomo Swidler (@ShlomoSwidler) discussed how many people seem to assume that because clouds can scale and rapidly provision servers that they&#8217;re always available and that because of this availability doesn&#8217;t have to be a fundamental [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite radio]]></category>
		<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>
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		<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 tournaments.  [...]]]></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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		<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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