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	<title>Payam's Place</title>
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		<title>iPad Carnage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new product announcements never make much sense at the time they are made. It takes a while for people to understand the ramifications of the technology being introduced and the shakedowns that will ensue. The iPad announcement may well have been the paradigmatic enigmatic announcement. The stock has tanked, and everyone is talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/02/02/ipad-carnage/</link>
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		<title>AOL Time Warner: The Stupidity of Greedy CEOs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC News  &#124;  Why AOL Time Warner failed to change the world
More than ten years after a horribly ill-conceived and thoroughly fraudulent union between an old world entertainment company, Time-Warner, and new-age chimera, AOL, predictably failed, people are wasting ink trying to analyze why the venture failed in a feeble attempt to gloss over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/12/09/aol-time-warner-the-stupidity-of-greedy-ceos/</link>
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		<title>We Aren&#8217;t Ready for Some Football, but They&#8217;re Gonna Give It to Us Anyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Environmental exemptions OKd for football stadium in City of Industry &#124; latimes.com
It is tough to love Los Angeles. It is an exceptionally large city ruined by the diminutive thinking of its residents and especially that of its politicians. Among the great signs of civilization in the city was the distinct absence of a football team. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/23/we-arent-ready-for-some-football-but-theyre-gonna-give-it-to-us-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Perceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CIF America &#124;  Comment is free &#124;  guardian.co.uk
About this time last year, the Guardian (UK), ran a very unscientific poll of the perceptions of its readers of the net results of the McCain-Obama debates.


As unscientific as this poll may be, it is impossible to dispute the prevalent choice in the UK. Though it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/13/perceptions/</link>
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		<title>The Sword</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gun-toting Pa. soccer mom, husband fo&#8230; &#8211; Google News
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.
When will we be rid of the idiots who think that the sword is the only avenue there is?
Can we expect them to annihilate themselves in such fits of passion, or can we have hope that they will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/09/the-sword/</link>
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		<title>Improving Windoze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ VMware Fusion 3.0 makes Windows look like Mac
How does one go about improving on Microsoft Windows? One uses a virtualization engine to make it look more like a Mac. This development bespeaks frustration of biblical proportions that drove programmers to undo what Microsoft programmers spent billions of dollars to implement.
This tops even the wine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/07/improving-windoze/</link>
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		<title>The First Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently the anniversary of the birth of the browser, the piece of software that changed the internet forever by spawning the world wide web, and the piece of software whose further development is presently changing computing forever.
Of particular interest to Apple enthusiasts would be the fact that the first browser was written on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/06/the-first-browser/</link>
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		<title>Bashing the United States on the Nobel Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ No Nobel prizes for American writers: they&#8217;re too parochial  &#124;  Books  &#124;  The Guardian
It&#8217;s hard to tell if this criticism is a veiled political jab dating to the oppressive Bush era, but given the disappointment with which contemporary American literature that exists in the United States as well, it&#8217;s probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/05/bashing-the-united-states-on-the-nobel-level/</link>
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		<title>The First Computer Bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Count me among the many who discovered that the first computer bug was, in fact, an insect that disrupted a circuit in the first computer from an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire a few years back. Original documentation like the one pictured below is simply priceless.
For the record, Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on logical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/05/the-first-computer-bug/</link>
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		<title>A Ventura Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube &#8211; Artist Portrait:Part One.
I love knowing such cool people.

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		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/04/a-ventura-scene/</link>
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