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		<title>Google I/O Keynote Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anticipation is high for big announcements this morning. People literally we running to seats when the large garage style doors opened! Never seen anything like it at a conference&#8230;

Big announcement: &#8220;the future we don&#8217;t want&#8221; one company (apple) controlling the platform and choices. Google promoting &#8220;innovation from everyone&#8221;. Android &#8211; daily activations have passed 100k [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google I/O Keynote 5/19/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google VP of Prod Mgmt &#8211; HTML 5 is all about giving desktop app power to web apps &#8211; access to all local hardware. Demo of MugTug Darkroom using local storage while disconnected from Internet to edit phtoto, very impressive. 
Invested $120M in buying On2 to offer an open video format. Believe this is best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/google-io-keynote/</link>
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		<title>Waiting for Google I/O Keynote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting here on a bean bag with the laptop waiting for the keynote and I have to say this is the most excited I&#8217;ve been to attend a conference since the old days of COMDEX.   There are so many interesting sessions on Google&#8217;s Android movbile platform, cloud computing with appengine, HTML5, and more.  This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/waiting-for-google-io-keynote/</link>
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		<title>Googles gift &#8211; a Droid phone for every attendee at Google I/O 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy week as usual this time of year, but right in the middle of the week appeared my very own shiny Droid phone.  I&#8217;m still just  a little in awe that Google has offered a new Android based phone to everyone at the conference.  Wow, what an impressive display of financial clout.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/googles-gift-a-droid-phone-for-every-attendee-at-google-io-2010/</link>
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		<title>iPad announcement &#8211; gPad by Christmas</title>
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This week&#8217;s announcement of the new iPad seemed to have been lost in all the middle school humor directed at the name and its association with feminine hygiene products.  That&#8217;s really too bad because after thinking about whether this is a novelty or really a revolutionary device for a few days, I think I&#8217;m on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/ipad-announcement-gpad-by-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Technology with meaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The devastation and human suffering in Haiti is truly overwhelming.  A country and a people with so little had everything taken away in a few moments on January 12th.  The stories of survivors still emerging from the rubble 10 and 11 days after the earthquake are simply amazing.
At this time, I truly feel fortunate I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/technology-with-meaning/</link>
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		<title>My Review of Learning Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Originally submitted at O&#8217;Reilly

Google and YouTube use Python because it&#8217;s highly adaptable, easy to maintain, and allows for rapid development. If you want to write high-quality, efficient code that&#8217;s easily integrated with other languages and tools, this hands-on book will help you be productive with Python 3.0 quickly&#8230;.

Learning Python
Great Book &#8211; a comprehensive look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/my-review-of-learning-python/</link>
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		<title>Oh Good a New Language &#8211; Go from Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What else could it be named?  Seriously though, this is pretty interesting..  Google is said to be behind this new language that is some super Python, with the performance of C.  I&#8217;m really not so sure we need another interpreted language.  Java, Ruby, Python &#8211; its like a Jubyathon already.  Truthfully, I&#8217;m on my second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/oh-good-a-new-language-go-from-google/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; this is better?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the big day all MSFT shareholders have been waiting for &#8211; Windows 7 is released.  I&#8217;m imagining the lines out the door of Best Buy for people waiting to but the new OS&#8230;
So, I have been truly awaiting this release.  You might have picked up along the way that I&#8217;m not exactly a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/windows-7-this-is-better/</link>
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		<title>Duct Tape Programmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, how I love this post by Joel on The Duct Tape Programmer!  This is such a salient point that applies to so much more than the context here.  &#8220;You see, everybody else is too afraid of looking stupid because they just can’t keep enough facts in their head at once to make multiple inheritance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/duct-tape-programmer/</link>
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		<title>Pondering Programmer Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of discussion lately about measuring productivity has had me spending time I should be sleeping thinking about the same.  I love accountants and finance folks.  I find them very bright and love the way they typically approach any business discussion from the point of logic, but they can be an intractable lot as well.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/pondering-programmer-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome OS &#8211; the final shoe falls in the strategy to supplant Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inevitible has finally happened.  Determined to put Microsoft 6 feet under, the final nail in the coffin has been pulled out of the box by Google, but not yet driven in Microsoft&#8217;s casket with yesterday&#8217;s announcement of the Google Chrome-OS.  A little over a month ago, Google announced Google Wave. This was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/google-chrome-os/</link>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day Mom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things were not easy for us when I was a kid.  When my parents split up, it was still a somewhat unusual thing, whereas today, it seems the unusual case is for parents to stay together.  It was just my Mom and I back then, as Dad was stationed on the other side of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/happy-mothers-day-mom/</link>
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		<title>A more direct approach cyber attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Were you worried about the April 1 Conficker worm a few weeks ago?  While this virus got plenty of media attention, an attack by cyber terrorists might be much more effective on phone, internet, banking, and maybe even our electric grid with the cut of a few fiber optic cables.  The prototype of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/a-direct-cyberattack/</link>
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		<title>Amazon offers highly distributed super-computer infrastructure in the cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Amazon announced their Amazon Elastic MapReduce cloud web service.  A natural extension to their EC2 cloud services on one hand, and a somewhat startling event on the other.  In a recent post, I spoke of the global implications of the readily available low cost cloud computing infrastructure.  Now, it seems this service has entered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/amazon-offers-highly-distributed-super-computer-infratructure-in-the-cloud/</link>
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