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		<title>Firefox 4 (Beta 8) First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/12/28/firefox-4-beta-8-first-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple hours of playing with the latest Firefox on my Mac, I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion: Mozilla has Google on the brain. The browser is certainly quick, but I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going back to it. Safari and Google have stolen my heart. The Good: Loads pages quickly; provides me a way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Visual Keyboard</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/09/19/a-better-visual-keyboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve noticed after 2.5 years of iPhone ownership is that the QWERTY keyboard is not designed for little fingers. While Apple has graciously included an automatic spellcheck program that corrects many typos, many go unchanged because the typo is itself a word. The more I&#8217;ve worked with this tiny keyboard, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pricing Success But Still and Abject Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/03/30/pricing-success-but-still-and-abject-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nissan announced today that their first all-electric vehicle, the Leaf, will be priced around $25,000. While it&#8217;s certainly adorable and conceptually desirable, the Leaf, along with similar plug-in electrics, will continue to be an automotive failure. Electric cars are best suited for urban environments, where slower speeds and short distances make optimal use of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outgrowing Arduino</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/02/07/outgrowing-arduino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a year now, I&#8217;ve been playing with the Arduino prototyping platform to learn about embedded programming. After a year, however, I think the time has come to say goodbye to the Arduino and program my microcontrollers directly. I do like the concept that Arduino is offering: a simple, low-cost platform that wraps a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/01/28/the-future-of-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predictions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Apple released its punchline-inducing &#8220;iPad&#8221; tablet device. Designed to be something between a smartphone and a laptop, the iPad is perhaps the most hyped device of the last couple years. Whether it will be a game changer is yet to be seen, but it is certainly a shift away from traditional computing for sure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress 2.9.1 released</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2010/01/04/wordpress-2-9-1-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress updates to version 2.9.1, fixing some minor bugs. Now is the time to update. After some tweaking with my hosting company, I can now use the platform&#8217;s automatic updater. Saved me several steps!]]></description>
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		<title>Windows to Add Mandated Browser &#8220;Choice Screen&#8221; in March 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/12/16/windows-to-add-mandated-browser-choice-screen-in-march-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/12/16/windows-to-add-mandated-browser-choice-screen-in-march-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission details the new, compulsory &#8220;Choice Screen&#8221; browser selection update to Microsoft Windows. From the Press Release: What is the Choice Screen and how can people get it? Microsoft has agreed with the European Commission to offer Microsoft Windows users a Choice Screen giving them an easy choice about which web browser they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green My Tank</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/12/12/green-my-tank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist is reporting on the US Military&#8217;s tactical need for &#8220;green power&#8221; war machinery. Not to save the environment, but to &#8220;unleash us from the tether of fuel.&#8221; [From Monitor: Greenery on the march &#124; The Economist]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of $5,000/MB</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/08/19/in-defense-of-5000mb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/08/19/in-defense-of-5000mb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at&t]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ndmckinney.net/?p=767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;AT&#038;T is dead.&#8221; Well, it&#8217;s not dead, but the Wall Street Journal claims that we should be making plans for the funeral. According to the WSJ, AT&#038;T is holding onto an obsolete, monolithic business model that is neither supportive of their customer nor fostering of technological advances. The chief complaint: the extremely high cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OS Nostalgia and Disappointment</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/08/17/os-nostalgia-and-disappointment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/08/17/os-nostalgia-and-disappointment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ndmckinney.net/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, when I was starting my computer science training, I was a major fan of OpenVMS. OpenVMS, of course, will not run on my laptop, so I needed a solution to run on my standard-issue laptop. Linux was still in its infancy, especially on laptop hardware, so I began to play around with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Asymmetric Cryptography</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/07/15/pros-and-cons-of-asymmetric-cryptography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/07/15/pros-and-cons-of-asymmetric-cryptography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cryptography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law & Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ndmckinney.net/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick disclaimer: I love cryptography. I don&#8217;t fully understand the math that goes into it, but I love it all the same. Something that has baffled me for quite some time is why we don&#8217;t see more cryptography in consumer computing. Passwords, simple authentication tokens, are ubiquitous, even on single-user Windows computers. Real encryption, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kills Old Technology?</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/07/14/what-kills-old-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was much, much younger, I was online. Every summer, I would spend a couple weeks with my grandparents. My uncle, a professor of computer science at a nearby college, secured for me a spare computer, a modem, and user account. A handshake later and I was connected to the network. A further authentication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Network Really is the Computer</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/07/09/the-network-really-is-the-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/07/09/the-network-really-is-the-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems, one of the stalwarts of the computing industry, has a simple motto: &#8220;the network is the computer.&#8221; Yesterday, Google took that motto to an entirely new level with the announcement of it&#8217;s Chrome OS. Details on Chrome are sparse (which has not stopped technology writers from writing ad nauseum about all the features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Botnets</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2009/06/16/government-botnets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[botnets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this morning, while listening to a story about the use of social media in Iran, a thought occurred to me: would governments have a need for their own botnets? To be clear, I&#8217;m not suggesting that governments have any such networks nor are actively creating them.  I am not suggesting, either, some massive international [...]]]></description>
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