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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; Techspeak</title>
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	<description>Aikido, comics, eating well, information security, open source, mountain biking, and caffeine - this blog has everything!</description>
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		<title>Book Review: Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/09/book-review-crush-it-by-gary-vaynerchuk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I burned through Gary Vaynerchuk&#8217;s book, &#8220;Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion.&#8221;
The key point in this book is that you need to be passionate and excited etc., etc. about your brand. And you have to be prepared to work hard. The problem is, even with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Facebook Era by Clara Shih</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/09/book-review-the-facebook-era-by-clara-shih/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/09/book-review-the-facebook-era-by-clara-shih/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I read The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff. It is somewhat larger and more up to date than &#8220;I&#8217;m on Facebook Now What???&#8221; Although I liked it, like the previous Facebook book, I found that it failed to adequately address the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s ESL, and Then There&#8217;s Plain Ridiculous</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/05/theres-esl-and-then-theres-plain-ridiculous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll let this voicemail I received  speak for itself, although, on second thought, someone else really should be doing the speaking&#8230; I had a similar message yesterday.
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		<title>My Thoughts on Yahoo! Search as Default for Ubuntu&#8217;s Firefox</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/02/21/my-thoughts-on-yahoo-search-as-default-for-ubuntus-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/02/21/my-thoughts-on-yahoo-search-as-default-for-ubuntus-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My thoughts on Canonical's deal to may Yahoo! (and therefore, Bing) the default search engine in Firefox for the next release of Ubuntu.]]></description>
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		<title>Quickly Determine What Version of Ubuntu You Have</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/29/quickly-determine-what-version-of-ubuntu-you-have/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/29/quickly-determine-what-version-of-ubuntu-you-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have several machines running Ubuntu, or several versions installed on the same machine, you may, like me, sometimes forget what version you have are running presently. A quick and easy way to do this is with the following command:
lsb_release -a
An example of the output on my system is as follows:
peter@peeeter-karmic:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time To Be Lucid</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/27/its-time-to-be-lucid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/27/its-time-to-be-lucid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After downing 9 espressos, I was compelled to install Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx Alpha 1.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: I&#8217;m on Facebook &#8211; Now What???</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/25/book-review-im-on-facebook-now-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/25/book-review-im-on-facebook-now-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600050956?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=nikolaidiscom-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=390957&#38;creativeASIN=1600050956">I'm on Facebook--Now What???: How to Get Personal, Business, and Professional Value from Facebook</a><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nikolaidiscom-20&#38;l=as2&#38;o=1&#38;a=1600050956" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />. While the majority of this 100 page book was review for me, I would recommend it to anyone who is brand new to Facebook or social networking in general.]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia e71 &#8211; Phone Startup Failed. Contact Retailer.</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/22/nokia-e71-phone-startup-failed-contact-retailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/22/nokia-e71-phone-startup-failed-contact-retailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fixed this by removing the micro-SD card from my phone and rebooting.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Hell</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/14/cell-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/14/cell-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In short, don't try calling me on my cell any time in the next few days. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick and Dirty &#8220;It&#8217;s Back Up&#8221; Bash Script</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/11/30/a-quick-and-dirty-its-back-up-bash-script/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/11/30/a-quick-and-dirty-its-back-up-bash-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had a client&#8217;s T1 line go down. Unfortunately, FairPoint Communications has had a mixed track record when it comes to telling us that they have (or more often, have not) fixed the issues.
So I wrote a simple bash script to ping the IP address of the router on the down T1 line, and [...]]]></description>
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