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		<title>Check Your Email Addresses for Crying Out Loud!</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2011/12/10/check-your-email-addresses-for-crying-out-loud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear people of the internet, please help yourself out by verifying that the email address you sprinkle to every web site, sweepstakes form, shopping cart, government entity and social network is actually an address that belongs to you. I&#8217;ll even &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2011/12/10/check-your-email-addresses-for-crying-out-loud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Droid X Gingerbread Update: from First to Worst in one Download</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2011/06/16/droid-x-gingerbread-update-from-first-to-worst-in-one-download/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My day job is spent getting technology products and services made, shipped and into consumer hands as quickly and efficiently as possible. With such a job comes pressures to release things that aren&#8217;t quite ready or have known issues in &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2011/06/16/droid-x-gingerbread-update-from-first-to-worst-in-one-download/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Hack Leaks 77 Million Users Data</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2011/04/27/sonys-hack-leaks-77-million-users-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to not mention things related to past employers or clients but the scope of this issue is so vast that I feel something must be said. The short story is that Sony had some kind of hack attack &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2011/04/27/sonys-hack-leaks-77-million-users-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Idea, Difficult Execution</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2010/11/07/simple-idea-difficult-execution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a post from Techcrunch today that neatly summarized a process that I&#8217;ve used for many years but didn&#8217;t put into concise words: Make Products that Suck Less. I have been through the new or improve a product process &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2010/11/07/simple-idea-difficult-execution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook is killing privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2010/04/28/how-facebook-is-killing-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been called crazy (alright, not just recently) for my opinions of things found online.  However, recent changes in the way Facebook wants to use my private data (or what I thought was private) have me thinking that &#8230; <a href="http://www.msinsights.com/2010/04/28/how-facebook-is-killing-privacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/05/19/all-about-scams-and-id-theft/#comments</comments>
		<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>Worst Service Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.msinsights.com/2009/04/01/worst-service-nominees/</link>
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		<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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