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	<description>random stuff from a digital immigrant</description>
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		<title>Running Adobe Air On Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had made mention last week to a couple of friends how I got a few Adobe Air applications up and running on my Ubuntu install. I walked one person through how I did it and decided to also make a quick video tutorial on the process. 

A couple disclaimers, first one is that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/running-adobe-air-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>The Condition We Do Not Speak Of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s funny how some people react when they learn I had (ok technically have) cancer. You have people who in general don&#8217;t mutter the word beyond a quiet whisper. Some people feel they are being insensitive if they discuss it, you&#8217;re not be the way. Then there are the ones that want to tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/the-condition-we-do-not-speak-of/</link>
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		<title>Public Speaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to speak at a small event here is San Diego about a week ago. I quickly came to the realization that I am not much of a public speak, sober anyways. It&#8217;s not that I was nervous or anything, I just suck at speaking to large crowds. 
Now, it&#8217;s typical for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/public-speaking/</link>
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		<title>Getting Things Done - The Quicksilver Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically you have those applications you like and those applications you love to use but every now and then an application comes around that completely changes the way you work and those become the applications you can&#8217;t live without. For me, that application is Quicksilver from Blacktree on my OSX machine. Not sure exactly how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/getting-things-done-the-quicksilver-way/</link>
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		<title>Fun with SAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s the simple things that amaze people and leave them thinking you are some type of computer genius. My daughters have grown up with computers, and I mean hardcore. Their first computer was a SUSE Linux machine; they&#8217;ve worked on Windows and OS X boxes and they know their way around them all. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/fun-with-say/</link>
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		<title>ICE ICE Baby&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife has been preaching to me for awhile to establish an &#8216;ICE&#8216; number on my cell phone. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. This is a standard that emergency response units like police, paramedics, and fire have been working on promoting. The idea is, if you are ever in a situation where you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/ice-ice-babe/</link>
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		<title>APIs or Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted my first question on Linkedin Q&#038;A service and I have to say the speed and quality of the replies are wonderful. So the question went like this;

Is a closed source solution with good APIs a better approach than an Open Source solution?
I went on to explain;
Would you rank a &#8220;closed source&#8221; solution with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/apis-or-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Bill Gates and Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You&#8217;ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek&#8217;s version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/bill-gates-and-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Firefox Downloads +1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 browser, 3 millions plus downloads worldwide and growing. Wonder what its like being the only dude in Eritrea to have downloaded it. That guy  (or gal lets be fair) deserves a some Firefox swag. 

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

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		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/firefox-downloads-1/</link>
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		<title>Browser Discrimination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing to me that I still stumble across sites like this. Especially &#8220;real&#8221; sites from &#8220;real&#8221; companies. This is a media company none the less. The funny thing is, running Internet Explore under Windows is one of the last combinations I actually use. Even under Windows, Firefox is my default browser. The show I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vanjohnson.com/2008/browser-discrimination/</link>
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