<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202</id><updated>2009-10-13T12:34:10.422-07:00</updated><title type='text'>spam my hen</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>414</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-3328554282907276920</id><published>2008-09-26T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T13:12:50.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>RSSFWD 2.0 - We're Back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/ViewEmailInBrowser.aspx?646C76=313533343932&amp;736272=65999&amp;66=30"&gt;View this email in your web browser&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;table style="border: 5px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bsf01.com/creatives/RSSFWD/090923_email/logo.gif" alt="RSS FORWARD - RSS STRAIGHT INTO YOUR EMAIL INBOX v2.0" height="100" width="600"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bsf01.com/creatives/RSSFWD/090923_email/main.gif" alt="Faster Easier Better" height="144" width="600"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;       &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;td style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The time has finally come. RSSFWD is officially back in action after being re-written from the ground up! We have completed development and beta testing, and are ready for all of our users to start using the system and getting back to offering a free reliable RSS to email solution. Thanks to everyone who has been reading the &lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/ctr.aspx?6C6164=33343430373334&amp;736272=65999&amp;747970=6874&amp;66=30"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, following us on &lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/ctr.aspx?6C6164=33343430373335&amp;736272=65999&amp;747970=6874&amp;66=30"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and testing out the new system. Your feedback has been INVALUABLE.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We would also like to thank EVERYONE for being PATIENT with us! We are well aware that this was not the preferred migration path that most of you would expect, nor was it the way we wanted to do this! &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many have asked if we can keep the old site running.  In reality, the old site has become unmanageable, and we are unable to resurrect it.This is why we have decided to re-write the system entirely from the ground up as the first version wasn't designed to handle the load that the system currently demands. We found that out after the attempted &lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/ctr.aspx?6C6164=33343430373337&amp;736272=65999&amp;747970=6874&amp;66=30"&gt;Blogarithm migration&lt;/a&gt; and are now ready to close that chapter, turn the page and move forward.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p&gt;On this note, we intend to turn off the old site and service Sunday September 28th.  If you'd like to continue to use RSSFWD (or give us another shot), please establish your account at &lt;a href="http://beta.rssfwd.com" target="_blank"&gt;http://beta.rssfwd.com&lt;/a&gt;.  On September 28th, &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.rssfwd.com&lt;/a&gt; will be completely converted to the new site. &lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Getting started with RSSFWD 2.0:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have established a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;simple account export process&lt;/span&gt;.  Follow these steps to import your subscriptions to the new version:&lt;/p&gt;           &lt;ol&gt;             &lt;li&gt;Create an account with the same email address at &lt;a href="http://beta.rssfwd.com"&gt;http://beta.rssfwd.com&lt;/a&gt; for the account you'd like to port over.&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;li&gt;Log into your account (at &lt;a href="http://beta.rssfwd.com"&gt;http://beta.rssfwd.com&lt;/a&gt;) and go to the My Subscriptions tab. &lt;/li&gt;             &lt;li&gt;Beneath your current set of subscriptions (of which you likely have none unless you've already been playing with the new site), there is a link to "Import from old RSSFWD".  Click this link, then select your delivery interval, and submit to schedule your import. &lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ol&gt;                     &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PLEASE NOTE: if you do not migrate by Sept 28th your feeds / subscriptions will be safe, and awaiting your migration. You can do this at anytime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to the sheer size of the old database (and several inefficiencies that we hope to have alleviated with the new version), we are taking the approach that active users perform this very simple process.  There is quite a bit of stale data in the old database, and for our subscribers' sakes, we would like to purge this useless data. &lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p&gt;Until September 28th, those who have migrated their accounts will likely receive duplicate emails.  Once we turn off the old system you will no longer receive the emails from the older service. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Please be patient with us over the next couple of days as we complete this migration and get back to offering a stable, reliable RSS to email solution!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please email us (contactus@rssfwd.com) if you have any questions or issues with this migration. We have tried to make it as simple as possible. We look forward to your feedback! Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The RSSFWD Team&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bsf01.com/creatives/RSSFWD/090923_email/footer.gif" height="54" width="600"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/fwd.aspx?646C76=313533343932&amp;736272=65999&amp;66=30"&gt;Forward to a friend&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/oo.aspx?646C76=313533343932&amp;736272=65999&amp;66=30"&gt;Unsubscribe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;img src="http://tk.publicaster.com/DC/opn.aspx?646C76=313533343932&amp;736272=65999&amp;747970=6874&amp;6175746F=30&amp;66=30" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-3328554282907276920?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/3328554282907276920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=3328554282907276920' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/3328554282907276920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/3328554282907276920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2008/09/rssfwd-20-were-back.html' title='RSSFWD 2.0 - We&apos;re Back!'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-4515889264710698450</id><published>2007-06-26T18:00:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:52:56.712-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Twister anyone</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; Funny thing but I have never played a game of nude twister. Guess I am missing out on a lot because these two sure make it look like fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/1024/twister01.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/320/twister01.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/1024/twister06.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/320/twister06.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the rest of this game of Twister by &lt;a href="http://www.sapphic-erotica.com/sample/sapphic/1013016/Mjk2OjM6MQ" target="_blank"&gt;clicking here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/twister-anyone.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/twister-anyone.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-4515889264710698450?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/4515889264710698450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=4515889264710698450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/4515889264710698450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/4515889264710698450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/06/twister-anyone.html' title='Twister anyone'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-9102460082059531244</id><published>2007-06-26T18:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T02:34:25.738-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi All - Hope you are having a great weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; I am traveling again and probably will not be able to post an update until Tuesday. I will try to post an update or two over the weekend but in case I can't I just wanted to let folks know that I'll be back soon. I'll think of you all when I am checking out all the hotties at the beach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime remember there more than 4 months of content in the archives to check out. If you can't find anything you like in the archives, &lt;a href="http://www.indienudes.com/main.html" target="_blank"&gt;Indie Nudes&lt;/a&gt; always has a ton of fun and erotic links. You can also check out &lt;a href="http://pornhater.com" target="_blank"&gt;Porn Hater&lt;/a&gt;. It is an interesting new blog I have discovered that has a very unique stlye and mix of content. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/hi-all-hope-you-are-having-great.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/hi-all-hope-you-are-having-great.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-9102460082059531244?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/9102460082059531244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=9102460082059531244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/9102460082059531244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/9102460082059531244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/06/hi-all-hope-you-are-having-great.html' title='Hi All - Hope you are having a great weekend'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-6179726231902053483</id><published>2007-06-26T18:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T01:38:13.585-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ignore</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/1024/31-468x601.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/320/31-468x601.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/ignore.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/ignore.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-6179726231902053483?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/6179726231902053483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=6179726231902053483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/6179726231902053483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/6179726231902053483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/06/ignore.html' title='Ignore'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-7658017914063069994</id><published>2007-05-27T22:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T22:32:26.169-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Audio Interview of Paul Graham</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; AfterTV has an &lt;a href="http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/aftertv/2006/04/paul_graham.html"&gt;interview with Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt;, whom they call "the quintessential Web 2.0 radical democrat and cultural iconoclast". It's 33 minutes and 20 seconds, and the audio quality is poor, so consider yourself warned. Download: &lt;a href="http://catrinbetts.com/ak/After_TV_Paul_Graham.mp3"&gt;30.6 MB mp3&lt;/a&gt;. 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=E3QwFPuO"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=E3QwFPuO" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=Y9BKdXIP"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=Y9BKdXIP" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=fiF6P9YM"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=fiF6P9YM" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=qNoSR9VD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=qNoSR9VD" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/aftertv/2006/04/paul_graham.html"&gt;http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/aftertv/2006/04/paul_graham.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://joegrossberg.com/paulgraham.rss"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165797&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-7658017914063069994?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/7658017914063069994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=7658017914063069994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7658017914063069994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7658017914063069994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/05/audio-interview-of-paul-graham.html' title='Audio Interview of Paul Graham'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-2100249780722037239</id><published>2007-05-07T23:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T23:47:22.881-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An Alternative Theory of Unions</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; "Difficult though it may be to imagine now, manufacturing was a growth industry in the mid twentieth century. [...] The early twentieth century was just a fast-growing startup overpaying for infrastructure. [We haven't] abandoned whatever mysterious high-minded principles produced the high-paying union job. We simply live in a time when the fast-growing companies overspend on different things." 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=79j8I3yi"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=79j8I3yi" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=kJH3s3eD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=kJH3s3eD" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=I5Xef2XV"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=I5Xef2XV" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=f0bo61wk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=f0bo61wk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html"&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://joegrossberg.com/paulgraham.rss"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165797&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-2100249780722037239?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/2100249780722037239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=2100249780722037239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/2100249780722037239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/2100249780722037239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/05/alternative-theory-of-unions.html' title='An Alternative Theory of Unions'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-449306379706887850</id><published>2007-04-30T07:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T16:25:26.021-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hacker's Guide to Investors</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; "Though they're less well known, the angel investors are probably the more critical ingredient in creating a silicon valley. Most companies that VCs invest in would never have made it that far if angels hadn't invested first." 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=pN2xlBdp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=pN2xlBdp" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=IHiaM55H"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=IHiaM55H" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=O1ybpfLy"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=O1ybpfLy" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=vfLDk7T7"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=vfLDk7T7" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html"&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://joegrossberg.com/paulgraham.rss"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165797&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; "The more you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors ... the more you realize you can do things to influence the outcome." 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=p5n9JwBf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=p5n9JwBf" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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Just in case anyone was wondering. 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=cNt5gES9"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=cNt5gES9" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=1MuXeguP"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=1MuXeguP" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=vOdYBpji"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=vOdYBpji" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=qaG32gET"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=qaG32gET" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html"&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://joegrossberg.com/paulgraham.rss"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165797&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-531933415054832165?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/531933415054832165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=531933415054832165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/531933415054832165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/531933415054832165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/04/microsoft-is-dead-figuratively.html' title='Microsoft is Dead, Figuratively'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-8958965350337244193</id><published>2007-04-07T06:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-07T06:52:31.431-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Microsoft is Dead</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; "Microsoft cast a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years starting in the late 80s ... and because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't notice when the shadow disappeared. No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make lots of money ... but they're not dangerous." 	  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN/0596006624&amp;tag=joegrossberg&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325"&gt;"Hackers &amp; Painters" by Paul Graham&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=qVZoXYW5"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=qVZoXYW5" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=tVmsqigD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=tVmsqigD" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=cB4JZf4M"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=cB4JZf4M" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?a=aHsQjjmN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/PaulGrahamUnofficialRssFeed?i=aHsQjjmN" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html"&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://joegrossberg.com/paulgraham.rss"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165797&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;0211388dcaf914ba40cb451d4f226547"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-8958965350337244193?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/8958965350337244193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=8958965350337244193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8958965350337244193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8958965350337244193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/04/microsoft-is-dead.html' title='Microsoft is Dead'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-3576015644500485975</id><published>2007-03-28T17:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T17:55:49.592-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How do you know you're getting the best care possible?</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Adam Bosworth, Vice President&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I talk to people using Google to search for information about their health questions and how well search answers these questions, I hear several common concerns. I want to list them and discuss our thoughts about them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;How do I know if the information is trustworthy and reliable?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a lot of material out there about drugs, diseases, procedures and treatments. How do you know what is trustworthy and what isn't? Search is great at finding us places with relevant information, but it is hard to know which links are reliable and which are less so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, this is a hard problem. At Google, we have tried, as I said in an earlier post, to enlist the help of the health community to help us know which links contain medically reliable information, sift these reliable links so that they tend to show up relatively earlier in the search results, and then let you decide which groups in the health community you trust. If you go to Google and type in [Lipitor], for example, and then you click on the "For patients" link and look carefully, you'll see that the search results often include at the bottom the word "Labeled By," followed by words like NLM and HON. NLM stands for the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, and HON stands for Health on the Net Foundation, an organization which is in the business of certifying web sites with health content that is reliable. These are organizations that have marked the part of the web that this link in the search results points to as medically reliable. It seems that we at Google may not have done a great job of making this clear enough. Unfortunately, many of you either don't notice these words when you're searching about health questions at Google or have no idea what they mean. Clearly, we can do better at making this kind of labeling noticeable and your ideas on how we could make it clear to you that a site is medically reliable or trustworthy would be greatly appreciated as we think this through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Am I getting the best standard of care?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is, actually, a lot of information out there about generally accepted medical guidelines for care. For most diseases, the medical literature lists the medically agreed-upon standard of treatment, rules to follow, and guidelines for which tests to administer and the best course of treatment - although it is hard to pull together from the various medical organizations and texts as it is constantly evolving. Experts determine which drugs make sense based upon a patient's condition, other conditions and drugs, age, gender, weight, and so on. There are of course always cases where doctors need to make exceptions to these rules about which drug to administer due to side effects and/or prescribe an alternative drug due to the patient's specific medical history. The point is that there are guidelines to help doctors with these decisions. However, this information isn't really accessible to those of you who aren't health professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking, I think, both for those of us at Google and most of you, given our specific condition or conditions and medicines, just knowing what the guidelines and generally accepted standard of care is for us specifically would be hugely helpful in knowing what to discuss with our doctors and what to research further. Today, even if we can figure out which sites upon which to rely, it is hard to find this out. We don't know where to start. Our treatment scares us, or our drugs have worrying side effects, or we're just frightened that we're not getting the treatment we should be getting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, this information can even help our doctors sometimes. They are over-worked and often pressed for time and it cannot ever hurt to double check. Sometimes they didn't get accurate or complete information from us. While most drug-to-drug and drug-to-condition interactions are known to our doctors, they do change and the doctor might miss a new one or not know about all your drugs because we forgot to tell your doctor about one. The statistics show that mistakes happen. In fact at some point in a patient's life, the odds of them being treated in a way which doesn't follow the guidelines and rules is about 45%. There are estimates that somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die every year from a preventable medical error at a hospital — or about 150 to 300 preventable inpatient death a day. And approximately 770,000 people are injured or die each year in hospitals from an adverse drug event. There are roughly 5,000 preventable medical errors a day taking place at doctor's offices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it seems that it would really help to let people know. It is tricky, however. Everybody's condition is unique. It isn't possible to just play doctor and tell you exactly what your treatment should be and why. Even doctors have a hard time with this because of the incredible and ever changing complexity of modern medicine. What is the best way to help people searching for answers to their health questions to know the right standard of care they should be receiving, what treatments or classes of medicines they should be researching, and what procedures might be indicated?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Who is the best doctor or institution for you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn't it strange that you can find out a lot about a restaurant on the web or about a movie, but not about a doctor? In fact you usually don't even know who to go to and just accept whoever your general practitioner recommends? You clearly don't just eat at restaurants other restaurants recommend, even though you might take it into account. Now admittedly there is a difference here. When it comes to food, you know what you like and the worst that can happen is you don't like it. But when it comes to your health you may not know what is best, and you can't necessarily tell if we're getting the best possible care. Still, here is a common situation: You've been diagnosed. Your primary care physician and you have discussed it and it is clear that you need a specialist and your doctor has referred you to one, but you're wondering how you know who is the best out there for you. How do you know whether they cover your insurance? How do you find them? Today, often you just take your doctor's referral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally there are lots of doctors who could treat or diagnose you. And in point of fact there is a lot of information about doctors floating around in the ether. Where they went to school is known. Whether they are board certified is known. What is their specialty is known. CMS (Medicare) and insurance companies actually know how many procedures of various types most doctors regularly perform. And this turns out to matter. There is an excellent book out called&lt;i style=""&gt; Complications&lt;/i&gt;, by Atul Gawande, discussing a lot of these matters, but in particular the book notes that practice really does make perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how do you know who is well seasoned? Do you always judge who to take care of you by how long they've been in practice? What does "best" really mean? This is a hard question. Mortality rates, for example, may not be a good indicator. Some specialists only treat the patients that others can't handle, and so, naturally, even though they are the best in the world, their rates might not be the best. Sometimes your choice may be dictated by other considerations. If there are two possible specialists, one is a man and the other is a woman, then sometimes people care about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn't clear how we can best help. We don't want to inadvertently steer you away from a brilliant doctor just because his or her mortality rate appears too high. What do you think, and what would you like to see made available on the web when you are searching for doctors?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Summary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the day, all these questions are about how you find the information you need. They are deceptively simple. If they were about restaurants, they would be trivial. But they are actually matters of life and death in the extreme and quality of life in the common case. In short, they matter profoundly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd like to say that we have all the answers. But we don't. Mostly, at the moment, what we have is questions and we'd love to hear from you (&lt;a href="mailto:health@google.com"&gt;health@google.com&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-you-know-youre-getting-best-care.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-you-know-youre-getting-best-care.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-3576015644500485975?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/3576015644500485975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=3576015644500485975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/3576015644500485975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/3576015644500485975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-you-know-youre-getting-best-care.html' title='How do you know you&apos;re getting the best care possible?'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-4819344111948259446</id><published>2007-03-27T22:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T22:13:08.100-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why to Not Not Start a Startup</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; 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- Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-4819344111948259446?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/4819344111948259446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=4819344111948259446' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/4819344111948259446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/4819344111948259446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-to-not-not-start-startup.html' title='Why to &lt;em&gt;Not&lt;/em&gt; 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background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Deepak Sethi, Software Engineer, Mobile Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever spent 15 minutes on the phone shouting answers at the automated airline attendant while rushing to the airport? How cool would it be to get real-time flight info just by sending a quick text message? Well, now you can, using &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/sms/"&gt;Google SMS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simply text your flight number to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most mobile devices), and the status information will be sent back to you. Or text a specific airline name, and Google will send back the main phone number to call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google SMS is available for flights departing or arriving in the U.S., and all of the information is provided by flightstats.com. And as always, it's free. Give it a try, and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/request.py"&gt;let us know what you think&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Molly Graham &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-8171841057906565777?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/8171841057906565777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=8171841057906565777' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8171841057906565777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8171841057906565777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms_27.html' title='Flying high with Google SMS'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-6564243193503551924</id><published>2007-03-27T11:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T11:04:30.389-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Pack cures the PC blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Jesse Savage, Product Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RghnGK58UYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/VIgLmcrk8X4/s1600-h/pack_illustration_final.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RghnGK58UYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/VIgLmcrk8X4/s400/pack_illustration_final.png" alt="Google Pack comic" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046396738172899714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Pack makes it easy to setup and protect your PC, and now we've added two new   applications to make your PC even safer: Symantec's Norton Security Scan, which detects and removes viruses, and PC Tools' Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, a top-rated anti-spyware utility. Both are free and include automatic protection updates with no paid subscription required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've also substantially updated our screensaver. Now you can turn your computer into a digital picture frame that displays pictures from photo feeds—continuously updated streams of photos from the web. Many of your favorite photo-sharing sites support them already, so it's easy to keep in touch with your friends and family this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We think you'll enjoy the improvements, so call in the Google haz-mat crew to   spiff up your PC. &lt;a href="http://pack.google.com/?utm_source=en-et-gblog_security&amp;amp;amp;amp;utm_medium=et&amp;amp;utm_campaign=en"&gt;Get the Google Pack for your PC today&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Molly Graham &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-pack-cures-pc-blues.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-pack-cures-pc-blues.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-6564243193503551924?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/6564243193503551924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=6564243193503551924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/6564243193503551924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/6564243193503551924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-pack-cures-pc-blues.html' title='Google Pack cures the PC blues'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RghnGK58UYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/VIgLmcrk8X4/s72-c/pack_illustration_final.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-5270498230858786256</id><published>2007-03-26T23:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T23:22:00.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Flying High with Google SMS</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Deepak Sethi, Software Engineer, Mobile Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever spent 15 minutes on the phone shouting answers at the automated airline attendant while rushing to the airport? How cool would it be to get real-time flight info just by sending a quick text message? Well, now you can using &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/sms/"&gt;Google SMS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simply text your flight number to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most mobile devices), and the status information will be sent back to you. Or text a specific airline name, and Google will send back the main phone number to call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is available for flights departing or arriving in the U.S., and all of the information is provided by flightstats.com. And as always, it's free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give it a try, and then &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/request.py"&gt;let us know what you think&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Molly Graham &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-5270498230858786256?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/5270498230858786256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=5270498230858786256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/5270498230858786256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/5270498230858786256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/flying-high-with-google-sms.html' title='Flying High with Google SMS'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-2033312443630659992</id><published>2007-03-26T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T17:48:12.765-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The wisdom of orkut</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Natalie Schwartz, orkut product team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wish you could use the wisdom of crowds to help make decisions and get all your&lt;br /&gt;questions answered? Well, starting today you can post polls and discover the&lt;br /&gt;wisdom of &lt;a href="http://www.orkut.com/" title="orkut"&gt;orkut&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgheTa58UXI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Zi1mJ1mUBXI/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgheTa58UXI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Zi1mJ1mUBXI/s320/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046387070201516402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now all you orkut users can create and post polls in any community that you are a member of. Just click a button in your favorite community, type in your question, and add pictures (if you like), and voila!—community members can&lt;br /&gt;vote and leave comments on your question of choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having trouble deciding where to go to spend your holiday weekend, who to vote for in the next election, or how to solve a tough brain teaser? Login to orkut and see what your orkut friends think! You might not see this right away in your favorite communities, but the feature will be rolling out to everyone soon. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/wisdom-of-orkut.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/wisdom-of-orkut.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-2033312443630659992?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/2033312443630659992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=2033312443630659992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/2033312443630659992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/2033312443630659992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/wisdom-of-orkut.html' title='The wisdom of orkut'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgheTa58UXI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Zi1mJ1mUBXI/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-1292913366225911897</id><published>2007-03-23T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T15:07:16.801-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Searching for HR innovation and community</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Judy Gilbert, Director, People Programs and Systems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might say that innovation is in Google's DNA, and we on the People Operations team strive to keep up with the high standards set by our technical colleagues -- we're always looking for new ideas. So last week, we rounded up&lt;span&gt; some of the most creative and successful people in human resources (HR) for an evening of brainstorming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our panelists were leaders from Adobe, Cisco, Genentech, Intuit, Network Appliance, and Yahoo! -- the Bay Area companies featured in Fortune Magazine's &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/full_list/"&gt;list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For&lt;/a&gt;. In the audience were &lt;span&gt;hundreds of HR professionals representing more than 100 companies. The group touched on everything from performance management to diversity to corporate culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the last appetizer was consumed, people were asking, "When can we all get together again?" We're starting to plan the next event, but to expand the conversation, we've started a Google Group for HR professionals for those who want to seek kindred spirits to explore new topics. If you're interested, you can sign up for the &lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hr-networkBayArea"&gt;SF Bay Area group&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hr-networkUS"&gt;US group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/searching-for-hr-innovation-and.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/searching-for-hr-innovation-and.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-1292913366225911897?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/1292913366225911897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=1292913366225911897' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/1292913366225911897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/1292913366225911897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/searching-for-hr-innovation-and.html' title='Searching for HR innovation and community'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-7415406659904860872</id><published>2007-03-23T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T15:04:20.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dog Day at Kirkland</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Tiffany Timmons-Regan, Facilities Service Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgQwvK58USI/AAAAAAAAADs/rnFXB9Std3A/s1600-h/Dog+Day+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 165px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgQwvK58USI/AAAAAAAAADs/rnFXB9Std3A/s320/Dog+Day+012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045211069501165858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;big round of paws to our Kirkland, Washington, office for hosting the First Annual Dog Day today. The local landlord does not allow dogs in the co-tenant building, so we planned a special day and received approval for the first ever dog party in Kirkland. Eighteen Dooglers—ranging from the smallest a Shih Tzu named Cino and a Lhasa Apso named Pooh, to the largest, Ronin, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, and Squirt, a Bernese Mountain Dog—showed up to enjoy a day of activities and meeting other canine pals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They celebrated the day with doggie massage and acupressure (woof, woof),  were pampered by a mobile grooming team, experienced a dog whisperer, and survived a dog training lesson. Of course, we held a "Best in Show" contest to recognize the smallest dog, largest dog, and best trick.  No AKC (American Kennel Club) rules here, just some minor Google-imposed rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgQw_a58UTI/AAAAAAAAAD0/4MQg2MeTjog/s1600-h/Dog+Day+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 126px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgQw_a58UTI/AAAAAAAAAD0/4MQg2MeTjog/s320/Dog+Day+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045211348674040114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each Doogler received a welcome bag filled with their very own Google security badge, fresh organic treats, Bully Sticks, tennis ball, travel poop bag kit, emergency pet evacuation sign (for home), and flyers for area service providers (grooming, day camps, natural foods, etc). It was a great day for Kirkland Dooglers, and we look forward to another day for the dogs. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Molly Graham &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/dog-day-at-kirkland.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/dog-day-at-kirkland.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-7415406659904860872?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/7415406659904860872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=7415406659904860872' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7415406659904860872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7415406659904860872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/dog-day-at-kirkland.html' title='Dog Day at Kirkland'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgQwvK58USI/AAAAAAAAADs/rnFXB9Std3A/s72-c/Dog+Day+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-5807915873855851409</id><published>2007-03-22T17:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T17:54:14.882-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To watch a guide-dog fly</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by T.V. Raman, Research Scientist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;From time to time, our own &lt;a href="http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/"&gt;T.V. Raman&lt;/a&gt; shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see—tips that sighted people, among others, may also find useful. - Ed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might well wonder what interest I might have in image search given that I cannot see. You might be even more surprised to learn that I own a digital camera. :-) I acquired one a few years ago because the cost of taking photos with a digital camera is zero. It only took a couple of weeks before I could  take relatively good pictures of my &lt;a href="http://emacspeak.sf.net/hubbell-labrador"&gt;handsome guide dog&lt;/a&gt;. I post many of these pictures to my website -- obviously not for viewing by me, but  all my friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how do you easily tell friends how to find that special picture? Here Google Image search comes to the rescue. Whenever I'm  surrounded by Hubbell's fan club, I want to tell people how they can view  specific pictures of her on the web. Universal Resource Locators (URLs) --  those long address strings that make the web work -- are nice, but they have one major disadvantage: they're unspeakable! Thanks to search, I've not had to speak a URL in a long, long time. Instead I usually tell friends to search for [Hubbell Labrador flying] to locate pictures of &lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=hubbell+labrador+flying"&gt;her  sitting on the pilot seat of an aircraft&lt;/a&gt; that I posted many years ago to the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One can think of such focused search queries as "conversational  bookmarks" -- the spoken equivalent of bookmarks one saves within a traditional web browser. Notice that such conversational bookmarks are not specific to image search. I often tell people that they can find me on the web by searching Google for [raman labrador] and clicking the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=raman+labrador&amp;num=25&amp;amp;btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky"&gt;I'm  Feeling Lucky&lt;/a&gt; button. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/to-watch-guide-dog-fly.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/to-watch-guide-dog-fly.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-5807915873855851409?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/5807915873855851409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=5807915873855851409' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/5807915873855851409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/5807915873855851409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/to-watch-guide-dog-fly.html' title='To watch a guide-dog fly'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-8797607778927807499</id><published>2007-03-20T18:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T19:00:54.192-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More than meets the eye</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Ardan Arac, Associate Product Manager, Search Quality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're very excited to unveil Plus Box, a new search feature that lets you see more information about individual search results. Whenever you see the plus box icon - &lt;img src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAuIK58UOI/AAAAAAAAADI/ZiNvYA55fqs/s200/plus_sm.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044082300556169442" /&gt; - click on it to see the additional rich data expand below the original search result. &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;With Plus Box, you'll get a visual snapshot of related information, so it is faster and easier to find exactly what you're looking for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, we're showing two types of Plus Box results: stock information and maps. You can find a plus box next to the home pages of companies listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX. Clicking the plus box icon for any of these companies displays the latest stock price, chart, and company information. Searching for stock prices on Google becomes much easier—for example, look up &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=apple&amp;amp;btnG=Search"&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; to find their stock information next to Apple's corporate home page. If you want to see a more detailed company profile, click on "More information" to go to &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=AAPL"&gt;Google Finance&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAvJK58UQI/AAAAAAAAADY/NtBM3y1rU5w/s1600-h/apple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAvJK58UQI/AAAAAAAAADY/NtBM3y1rU5w/s400/apple.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044083417247666434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll also find Plus Box results when a business comes up in search results and we are able to map its address. The Plus Box link tells you the address of the business and clicking the icon or the link shows you the address on a map. To see this at work, search for &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=babbo&amp;btnG=Google+Search"&gt;Babbo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAvWK58URI/AAAAAAAAADg/A5Shgv2_uXc/s1600-h/babbo+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAvWK58URI/AAAAAAAAADg/A5Shgv2_uXc/s400/babbo+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044083640585965842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You won't see this feature yet for all businesses, but we're working hard to increase its availability. If you're a business owner and would like to see something like this associated with your website, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=52171&amp;amp;ctx=sibling"&gt;here's how&lt;/a&gt; to get your information to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll be using Plus Box for other kinds of information in the future, so stay tuned and keep an eye out for the &lt;img src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAuIK58UOI/AAAAAAAAADI/ZiNvYA55fqs/s200/plus_sm.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044082300556169442" /&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Molly Graham &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-than-meets-eye.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-than-meets-eye.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-8797607778927807499?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/8797607778927807499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=8797607778927807499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8797607778927807499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/8797607778927807499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-than-meets-eye.html' title='More than meets the eye'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_RurH6zDlc1M/RgAuIK58UOI/AAAAAAAAADI/ZiNvYA55fqs/s72-c/plus_sm.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-7828474201054124720</id><published>2007-03-19T17:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-19T17:25:55.385-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Apps now south of the Sahara</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Francoise Brougher, Business Operations Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tens of thousands of university students in Rwanda and  Kenya are now on their way to using &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu/"&gt;Google  Apps&lt;/a&gt;. As a result of two separate partnerships that &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/apps_rwanda.html"&gt;we've signed today&lt;/a&gt; with the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure and the Kenya Education Network, nearly 20,000 students from the &lt;a title="http://www.nur.ac.rw/" href="http://www.nur.ac.rw/"&gt;National University of Rwanda&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a title="http://www.kie.ac.rw/" href="http://www.kie.ac.rw/"&gt;Kigali Institute for  Education&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a title="http://www.kist.ac.rw/index_2.html" href="http://www.kist.ac.rw/index_2.html"&gt;Kigali Institute for Science and  Technology&lt;/a&gt;, plus 50,000 more from Kenya's &lt;a title="http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/" href="http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/"&gt;University of Nairobi&lt;/a&gt;, are joining their colleagues at &lt;a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/02/google.html"&gt;Northwestern&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200610/20061010_asugmail.htm"&gt;ASU&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/customers.html"&gt;around the world&lt;/a&gt; with access to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs &amp;amp;  Spreadsheets under their university's domain for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offering Google Apps in  Africa means more to us than connecting students and  teachers to conduct that special exchange of ideas, innovation and creativity so unique to universities (&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html"&gt;we should know&lt;/a&gt;). In Africa and in the developing world, it also means doing our part to make sure that everyone has access to the same services wherever they live, whatever their language, and  regardless of income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can't be more delighted about our Google Apps partnerships with Rwanda and Kenya, and there are more to come. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Karen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-apps-now-south-of-sahara.html"&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-apps-now-south-of-sahara.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165794&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;a0d9a0753194d08ee016f7c4e9381746"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-7828474201054124720?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/7828474201054124720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=7828474201054124720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7828474201054124720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7828474201054124720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-apps-now-south-of-sahara.html' title='Google Apps now south of the Sahara'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-4221126521210738743</id><published>2007-03-17T10:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-17T10:34:31.887-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guinevere enjoys some ice cream</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; There is nothing better than a cold ice cream on a cold day. Even better is sharing an ice cream with a cute girl. But the best has got to be... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/1024/icecream02.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/320/icecream02.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A cute girl eating ice cream while topless wearing jeans!&lt;/strong&gt; Wow - Talk about a great way to start the week. Here's to find lots more great sexy pics of cute girls topless while wearing jeans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/1024/icecream05.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/16/3438/320/icecream05.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the rest of this set of Guinevere by &lt;a href="http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=900013-0000&amp;PA=963529&amp;HTML=http://hosted.ronharris.com/hosted/guinevereicecreamindex.htm" target="_blank"&gt;clicking here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/guinevere-enjoys-some-ice-cream.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/guinevere-enjoys-some-ice-cream.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; typehtml &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/03/blog-post_111160028544811591.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/03/blog-post_111160028544811591.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; While my new blog is not yet complete I am no longer going to be posting updates here. I simply do not have the time to finish the new one and continue to update this one. Spend some time here checking out the archives there is a ton of great material.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you want to watch the progress of the new blog the url is: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sensualarousalblog.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sensual Arousal Blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/my-new-blog-is-on-line.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/07/my-new-blog-is-on-line.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-294851669164517097?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/294851669164517097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=294851669164517097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/294851669164517097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/294851669164517097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-new-blog-is-on-line.html' title='My New Blog Is On-Line'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286202.post-7876573616273321097</id><published>2007-03-17T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-17T10:32:06.029-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cristal by Ron Harris</title><content type='html'>&lt;HTML&gt; &lt;head&gt;   &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;  &lt;style&gt; &lt;!-- in case incoming feed has no style --&gt; body { background-color: #fff; color: #333; }  body, p, ol, ul, td {   font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; }  pre {   background-color: #eee;   padding: 1em; }  a { color: #000; } a:visited { color: #666; } a:hover { color: #fff; background-color:#000; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/137/5093/1024/rh1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/137/5093/320/rh1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Ron Harris 'Seeing is Believing' is much more than a slogan. See more of Ron's work with Cristal by &lt;a href="http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=900013-0000&amp;amp;PA=963529&amp;amp;HTML=http://www.newnudegirls.com/tgp/rhs/UNCODED/cristalwhiteindex.htm" target="_blank"&gt;clicking here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Can you say &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://labatidora.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Labatidora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; ?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p /&gt; &lt;i&gt;Lori Porter &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;hr /&gt; Source: &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/06/cristal-by-ron-harris.html"&gt;http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/2005/06/cristal-by-ron-harris.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;--&lt;br&gt;To unsubscribe from &lt;a href="http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/atom.xml"&gt;this feed&lt;/a&gt;, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/unsubscribe?id=165813&amp;amp;email=sphenit%40gmail.com&amp;amp;genpass=48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;To manage other subscriptions, click &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/opml/sphenit%40gmail.com;48d414007baea398a82715dd4a232475"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;~&lt;br&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.rssfwd.com/"&gt;RssFwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hosting sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Publicaster&lt;/a&gt; - Powerful Email Marketing Solutions by &lt;a href="http://www.blueskyfactory.com/bsflanding/landing_pubrss/pubrss.htm"&gt;Blue Sky Factory, Inc&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Get a Job&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37286202-7876573616273321097?l=sphenit.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/feeds/7876573616273321097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37286202&amp;postID=7876573616273321097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7876573616273321097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37286202/posts/default/7876573616273321097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sphenit.blogspot.com/2007/03/cristal-by-ron-harris.html' title='Cristal by Ron Harris'/><author><name>sphenit</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05674673463417145179</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16970961927354616835'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>