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	<title>Stephen Russell's Weblog</title>
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		<title>Customer service  :(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently have had the pleasure of dealing with Sprint's notorious customer service.  I really think that customers should be credited at least the CSR's hourly rate when they waste their customers' time.  My experience with Sprint CS has been less than fruitful.  While I will say when I don't have any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=169</link>
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		<title>A little commentary on Hillary&#8217;s suspension of her campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a very good article over at NJ Voices in the opinion section.   The author paints an interesting picture of Hillary Clinton's campaign and John McCain's future issues.  Its a good read.  Here's a quote (originally written by Paul Mulshine and the link to the original article is below the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=168</link>
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		<title>One should always question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think the U.S. media outlets are fair and balanced... consider:  
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_media.html ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Once I get this dissertation done&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, I have a list of things to investigate once I get this dissertation done....  anyway I post them here so I can find/remember them again

http://blog.steinberg.org/?p=7
http://reality.media.mit.edu/

and a couple of keywords:  crowdsourcing, crowds ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=166</link>
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		<title>Wow&#8230;  people see so much stuff coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the pages of Big Brother: there are so many other authors who saw the coming of current times.  This kind of things is such a serious issue it amazes me how some many people are not concerned or even aware.   The following snippet comes from an article called "The National Data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Web-based whiteboarding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often I need to share a concept with a friend.  Now that web-based whiteboards are available this has gotten so much easier!   All for FREE.  My favorite is Skrbl Twiddla.

Here are some sites collected from this Blog (http://techlogg.blogspot.com/2007/03/web-based-interactive-whiteboards.html)


Twiddla Real collaboration, in real time.
Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Programming for Parallel Processing or Multi-Cores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been eager to do some programming that deals with parallel processing and today a friend of mine (thanks Al!) pointed me to Microsoft's efforts in this area.  Anyway here it is (mostly so I don't lose it by the time I get to play around with it).  They extensions to .Net [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Icon sets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good icons can really make a world of difference for an application (web or otherwise).   Finding good ones can really be tricky... as I posted some free image sites... heres some free icon sites

http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/122
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?RoyaltyFreeIcons
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/icons/dock/?order=9&#038;alltime=yes
http://yellowicon.com/downloads/
http://fasticon.com/freeware/?p=57

These are very cool and modern looking:
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com

This one also has a list:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/25/20-free-and-fresh-icon-sets/ ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Once again its been a while &#8212; Free Stock photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across a few good free photo sites:
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://openphoto.net/
http://www.bigfoto.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://yotophoto.com/


http://pstutorialsblog.com/44/free-stock-photos/ ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Free .Net controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a list of free controls for ASP.Net.  See them after the jump

Flyout Control (ToolTip Control)
You can use this control as to show tooltip or you can use this control to show flyout or dynamic html while clicking on or

focus on any control. For demo, check the following url.
http://www.obout.com/flyout/flyout.aspx

Panel Control - Strip Control (Can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smrussell.net/blog/?p=159</link>
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