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	<title>Mike&#039;s Musings</title>
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	<description>If I build it, will they come?</description>
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		<title>From PC to Mac</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/05/from-pc-to-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you thinking of replacing your Windows computer with a Macintosh but a bit hesitant to take the plunge? Here are answers to some frequently asked questions that may help you decide to proceed:

How will I open all my Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents? 
You can buy Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh. That&#8217;s right, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with tech support, part 1</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/05/fun-with-tech-support-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/05/fun-with-tech-support-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 21:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary/Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idiots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illustrator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Support]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my clients think that, because I&#8217;m a computer consultant, I have no trouble dealing with companies&#8217; tech support because we&#8217;re the same type of people and speak the same language. Wrong! Far more often than not, the person you&#8217;re talking to when you phone tech support is not a &#8220;techie&#8221;, just someone working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Uh huh&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/uh-huh/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/uh-huh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary/Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Uh huh.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the woman working the cash register at the fast food place said the other day when I thanked her.
&#8220;Uh huh.&#8221; That&#8217;s what a lot of people working the cash registers at a lot of different stores have said over the years when I&#8217;ve thanked them.
What is up with that???? If it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because [insert name] said so!</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/because-insert-name-said-so/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/because-insert-name-said-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary/Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my pet peeves is when someone expresses an opinion that they&#8217;re simply passing along from someone else, one they&#8217;ve put absolutely no thought into themselves, it&#8217;s just because so-and-so said it.
I don&#8217;t care whether that so-and-so is Ann Coulter, Arianna Huffington, Rush Limbaugh, the late Molly Ivins (not that she&#8217;s stating her opinions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Tech Support</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/dealing-with-tech-support/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/dealing-with-tech-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macintosh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Support]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://macconsult.com/wordpress/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[How to get maximum results with minimum damage to your sanity]
Calling tech support for assistance is something many people dread, and indeed, they often have a rather unpleasant time, to put it mildy. Despite being a computer professional I often have bad experiences dealing with support (and I will chronicle some of those experiences in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a house a home?</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/what-makes-a-house-a-home/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/what-makes-a-house-a-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary/Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankee Stadium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sister recently posted this to her blog:
I grew up on Long Island as a New York Yankees fan, taking after my father (and his father before that.) I first went to Yankee Stadium in 1967, right at the conclusion of Mickey Mantle&#8217;s career. I think I was at Reggie&#8217;s first game as a Yankee. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I played hooky today</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/why-i-played-hooky-today/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/why-i-played-hooky-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankee Stadium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I skipped work this afternoon. It&#8217;s easy to do that when you&#8217;re self-employed and none of your clients have a big emergency to make you feel guilty. Anyway, my reason? To watch opening day it Yankee Stadium 2.0.
Now, I love baseball in general, and the Yankees specifically (go ahead, say what you will, I can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Those bozos must be crazy</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/leaving-a-car-running-unattended/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/leaving-a-car-running-unattended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary/Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idiots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupidity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://macconsult.com/wordpress/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if this is a problem all over–I&#8217;ve only seen it in Jacksonville, FL, but that&#8217;s where I live so I&#8217;m a lot more likely to see it here. And it&#8217;s a big enough problem here that there&#8217;s actually been a report on the local TV news about it.
What I&#8217;m talking about is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why I love my Prius</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/i-love-my-prius/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/i-love-my-prius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hybrid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I bought my Toyota Prius in September, 2004, to replace a 1995 Geo Prizm (that&#8217;s a Toyota Corolla incognito). As much as I&#8217;d like to honestly say I did it for the environment, the truth is it was for the money.* I drive about 25,000 miles a year, and even with gas costing around $1.70/gal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>If I build it, will they come?</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, my inaugural blog post. With this, I join the legions of other bloggers around the world. And the big question is WHY? Why am I doing it? Well, basically, it&#8217;s because I can, which is probably the reason behind the existence of most blogs. Oh, it&#8217;s actually a bit more involved than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test post</title>
		<link>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/test-post/</link>
		<comments>http://macconsult.com/wordpress/2009/04/test-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whatever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Say something extremely witty, humorous, or important here. Or just babble like an idiot. Hell, it&#8217;s a blog &#8211;  anything goes!
[Don't forget to delete this post before going "live"!]
]]></description>
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