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		<title>Adieu to Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I deactivated my Facebook account tonight. I&#8217;ve been threatening it a while now. I finally reached my tipping point. While filling out the deactivation form, I was asked [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2012/02/14/adieu-to-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Spring Annotations That Look More Like the Disease Than the Cure #Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, I will preface this post with the caveat that I have a lot of respect for the Spring framework and the talented engineers who brought it [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2012/02/02/spring-annotations-that-look-more-like-the-disease-than-the-cure-java/</link>
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		<title>Ron Paul Making His Move?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The election results in New Hampshire tonight seem pretty unexpected to me.  CNN is projecting Ron Paul to take second while trailing Romney by 15 points.  I hate [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2012/01/10/ron-paul-making-his-move/</link>
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		<title>The Real Problem with Occupy Wherever #OWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged before about what I see as zombie groups united more by rage than any particular ideals.  I think some aspects of what I said then could [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/11/20/the-real-problem-with-occupy-wherever-ows/</link>
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		<title>The Problem With Free Web-based Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been observing for quite a while the proliferation of free web-based services.  The growth of these free services has caused me a great deal of concern. [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/10/24/the-problem-with-free/</link>
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		<title>Pod Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I posted last night, I had no idea the term &#8220;pod cars&#8221; was already in use commercially.  My usage of the term was completely coincidental.  I read [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/10/14/pod-cars/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on today&#8217;s tech startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Startups are hot right now.  So hot in fact that some would suggest we are approaching another bubble.  I follow a number of tech startup blogs, podcasts, and [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/10/13/thoughts-on-todays-tech-startups/</link>
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		<title>Trying to avoid being just another stale blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever wander into a blog, see the date of the most recent post, and immediately dismiss it as another abandoned blog of a sometimes-egomaniac on the [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/10/04/another-stale-blo/</link>
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		<title>On Zombies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think very few people recognize the threat that zombies pose to our civilization.  I have recently reached the conclusion that zombies are very real, although metaphorical.  If [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/08/09/on-zombies/</link>
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		<title>The Myth of the Interchangeable Employee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling employees &#8220;resources&#8221; has been ubiquitous for quite a while now.  It is pretty much taken for granted that the department that will deal with payroll, employee relations, [..]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timgarrett.net/2011/03/16/the-myth-of-the-interchangeable-employee/</link>
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