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		<title>My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first question is, &#8220;If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?&#8221; If your answer is &#8220;No,&#8221; then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry. To that en,d I decided to do an obligatory â€œTop Tenâ€ of my 2007 inaugural blogging adventure. My first problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Might be Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie. George C. Scott is a retired judge who believes that he is Sherlock Holmes, and Woodward is a psychiatrist who has been hired by Scottâ€™s family to declare him insane. Woodward travels with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, the day after BarCampNashville, I had lunch with Luke Kanies, the owner of Reductive Labs and the author of Puppet. It became a working lunch due to all my questions about his product. I first met Luke at OSCON 2007 during his Puppet session. I hadnâ€™t planned to attend the Puppet session because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Views on OSS ESM (Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coincidentally, I had a conversation yesterday with two of the ten largest banks in the world. Both told me that 2008 looks to be a possible greenfield for some of their ESM initiatives, or, in other words, a do-over. Before I could even ask, they started talking about open source. One of the executives told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do Oâ€™reilly, Shuttleworth, Fogel, Wales, and a bowling alley have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At OSCON 2007 I asked Tim Oâ€™reilly and Mark Shuttleworth a question in the Q&#38;A in their keynote. Being an instructor by trade affords you an extra sensory skill set in asking questions after presentations. I asked this question â€œWhere is the free, going on here? I see a small few making a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarCampESM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Â  Yesterday whurley (BMC), Mark Hinkle (Zenoss), and myself were sitting around trying to solve all the worlds ESM problems.Â  After our second round of margaritasÂ we aksed whurley why don&#8217;tÂ we doÂ one.Â  Twenty four hours latter it&#8217;s done.Â  Whurley is amazing&#8230; http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/summer-camp-for-systems-management-vendors Â http://barcamp.org/barcampesm http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/08/08/systems-management-barcamp/]]></description>
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		<title>You can never go without a coat in the summer in the city of San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Samuel Clemens is often attributed to the â€œColdest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Franciscoâ€ he never said it.Â  In fact, if I had to guess my money is on Oscar Wilde.Â  What Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) did say is &#8220;you can never go without a coat in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Open Source Conference OSCON 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not another OSCON 2007 Wrap up Blog? This was my first open source convention and I was blown away. Â I only spent two days (Wednesday and Thursday) but I had a wonderful time. Â Not only were there tons of technical resources but there were mind blowing discussions about people and life going on all around.Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who woke up Big Blue and does this mean IBM likes Nagios?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the kids go to bed I do silly things on my computer like search different keywords on different vendors sites.Â  Last night I found an intersting one that was posted about a week ago &#8211; Nagios.Â  Look out gang the Big Guy finally woke up.Â  Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Future IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, that old Marty McFly has gotten him self into a fine mess again and yes he has a skateboard. This time he has got his work cut out for him. He was sent back in time not to Hill Valley but to Houston Texas to rescue a software company called BMC. His best friend [...]]]></description>
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