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		<title>Goodbye 2009, and good riddance</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/12/31/goodbye-2009-and-good-riddance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just by reading the headline you can see that I have no problems leaving 2009 in the dust. It was a crappy year in just about every sense. But rather than drone on and on about what really sucked about &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/12/31/goodbye-2009-and-good-riddance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>PC Building Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/11/26/pc-building-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the Thanksgiving holiday I spent more than my fair share of quality time building and rebuilding PCs. Although it was all for a good cause, it was pretty painful. These PCs are supposed to work when you put them &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/11/26/pc-building-fun/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Video Disc Tools for Happy Streaming</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/11/14/video-disc-tools-for-happy-streaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blu-ray]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked recently to document the things that a person would need to use in order to take an optical disc with video content on it and turn it into something that streams reliably to the PS3. Rather than &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/11/14/video-disc-tools-for-happy-streaming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Attempting to break the surly bonds of Voicemail</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/09/11/attempting-to-break-the-surly-bonds-of-voicemail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve become more of a nomadic worker, without a full-time office location, I&#8217;ve been looking for ways to make my phone presence consistent and available no matter how a client might reach me. Switching to AT&#38;T U-verse was &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/09/11/attempting-to-break-the-surly-bonds-of-voicemail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>If At First You Don&#039;t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/06/21/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-fail-fail-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/06/21/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-fail-fail-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a tough week, technology-wise.  Over the course of the last three days I&#8217;ve had two relatively new hard drives fail, a gigabit switch started having some ports go slow and a servo that controls the throttle on an &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/06/21/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-fail-fail-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All About Scams and ID Theft</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/05/19/all-about-scams-and-id-theft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two different events conspired to make today suck: an email purporting to be from the FBI and US Mail from a former employer telling me that my identity may have been stolen. The FBI mail is the typical Internet scam, &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/05/19/all-about-scams-and-id-theft/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 makes networked media work</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/30/windows-7-makes-networked-media-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/30/windows-7-makes-networked-media-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 RC1 (build 7100): the new Windows Media Player 12 is all kinds of goodness. <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/30/windows-7-makes-networked-media-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Service Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/01/worst-service-nominees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/01/worst-service-nominees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently had the great displeasure of participating in three different levels of grief and suffering with three different technology companies.  All three were so terrible that I felt compelled to write about it and post the results here, &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/01/worst-service-nominees/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A track day at Laguna Seca</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/03/11/a-track-day-at-laguna-seca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/03/11/a-track-day-at-laguna-seca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 9 I was fortunate enough to get some track time at the famed Laguna Seca Raceway in Salinas, CA.  It was an interesting experience to say the least, and very different from driving at Thunderhill for past events. As &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2009/03/11/a-track-day-at-laguna-seca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Latest Vista Test: Network Throttling</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2008/12/14/my-latest-vista-test-network-throttling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2008/12/14/my-latest-vista-test-network-throttling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstroud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks I have been copying large amounts of data back and forth from my desktop PCs and my ReadyNAS in order to facilitate clearing some local hard disk space and to really, honestly begin scheduled &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2008/12/14/my-latest-vista-test-network-throttling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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