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	<description>Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.</description>
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		<title>Off the rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBMers who have spent time looking at IBM&#8217;s Leadership Competencies may be familiar with the eight career Derailment Factors that IBM Learning has identified (hint: avoid them!).
I found a new one today.
After reaching out to my network in the wake of last week&#8217;s surprise, several people had identified one particular opportunity that was a plausible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/03/10/off-the-rails/</link>
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		<title>Think Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s surprise, the rest of the week was a whirl of phone calls, meetings, and e-mail exchanges, making and renewing contacts, gathering information, and trying to get to a place where I&#8217;d have enough data to think about considering making plans.
I realized that while all that activity was necessary, it wasn&#8217;t sufficient, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/03/09/think-time/</link>
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		<title>Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my first session today at Right Management, the outplacement firm that IBM has contracted with.  I had a 90-minute one-on-one with a &#8220;Career Management Consultant&#8221;; we talked, unsurprisingly, about me and my options going forward.
There was some very concrete advice (have a local phone number and a &#8220;professional&#8221; email address for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/03/08/right/</link>
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		<title>Showtime!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been taking classes at ComedySportz San Jose for a little over a year and I&#8217;ve finally reached the pinnacle of the system, Rec League (we even have our own t-shirts!).  In Rec League, we intermix classes and shows &#8212; tonight, it was my turn to be in a full-length show along with five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/03/07/showtime/</link>
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		<title>That was the week (and job) that was</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It started very innocently.
It was Monday morning, about 9:20am; I&#8217;d been in the office about 30 minutes, after my usual weekly trip to the chiropractor.  I&#8217;d been unable to connect to the intranet all weekend because of a fiber cut in Westchester County, so I was busily processing my Lotus Notes inbox (reading email, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/03/06/surprise/</link>
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		<title>Simply amazing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has become part of my daily life, but every so often, I am still amazed by what it makes possible.
This morning, while washing some dishes, a tiny fragment of melody from my childhood popped into my head &#8212; it was a line from some novelty song that I think we&#8217;d sung in elementary school. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/02/28/simply-amazing/</link>
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		<title>A GTD insight from Merlin Mann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merlin Mann made one observation during his OmniFocus talk that I thought was useful enough to repeat (partially as a way of solidifying it in my own mind!).  
Even though he&#8217;s Mr. Inbox Zero himself, he leaves items in the OmniFocus inbox until he knows what he&#8217;s going to do with them.
Thinking that way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/02/18/a-gtd-insight-from-merlin-mann/</link>
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		<title>links for 2010-02-17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow
(tags: flow gtd productivity creativity)


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		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/02/17/links-for-2010-02-17/</link>
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		<title>A day at Macworld Expo 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried to make it to Macworld last year, but work got in the way; this year, I did a better job of defending my calendar (and having the expo include Friday didn&#8217;t hurt, either) and was able to make the trip.
IBM (mostly Lotus) was out in force &#8212; they were greeting attendees at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2010/02/17/a-day-at-macworld-expo-2010/</link>
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		<title>links for 2009-12-07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

20 Key Questions on Motivation and Habits, Answered
(tags: simplify life)


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		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/12/07/links-for-2009-12-07/</link>
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		<title>links for 2009-11-24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Tips &#38; Tricks Tuesday: Making a travel checklist
(tags: RTM travel)


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		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/11/24/links-for-2009-11-24/</link>
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		<title>Three days with the IBM Academy in [internal] Second Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IBM Academy of Technology used to have an Annual General Meeting where the 300 or so members, along with guests and senior IBM executives, would spend three-plus days in intense interaction, setting our agenda for the next year and taking advantage of chance meetings.  Oh, and socializing.  It was a highlight of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/11/20/three-days-with-the-ibm-academy-in-internal-second-life/</link>
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		<title>A day at the CIO Council</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent today at the CIO Council; the session was devoted to Enterprise Architecture, a subject on which I am most definitely not an expert, so I stayed relatively quiet much of the day.
But the first speaker, Gary Hamel, wasn&#8217;t focused on Enterprise Architecture (I won&#8217;t abbreviate it, because when I see &#8220;EA&#8221;, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/11/04/a-day-at-the-cio-council/</link>
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		<title>A GTD Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly Forrister, @GTDCoachKelly, ran a guided mindsweep on Twitter last week.  I found it useful, and thought it might be handy to be able to repeat it (using her prompts and timings), so I threw together some truly awful HTML and JavaScript to do so.
Here it is.
        [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/10/20/a-gtd-experiment/</link>
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		<title>A trip to Banff National Park (the final day)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We knew we&#8217;d have to get up fairly early on Monday to make our flight home, so we decided to practice by setting an alarm clock for Sunday morning, too.  It wasn&#8217;t too painful.
Since Yelpers had praised Melissa&#8217;s breakfast, we decided to go there &#8212; our timing was great (maybe the clock was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/09/06/a-trip-to-banff-national-park-the-final-day/</link>
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		<title>A trip to Banff National Park (day 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday dawned early, I think; we didn&#8217;t.
We decided to try somewhere else for breakfast, and, based on the bartender&#8217;s suggestion on Thursday (and some Yelp and Frommer&#8217;s research), we settled on Coyote&#8217;s.  The place was nearly full when we got there, but there were spaces at the counter, so we squeezed ourselves in and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/09/05/a-trip-to-banff-national-park-day-3/</link>
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		<title>A trip to Banff National Park (day 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, we enjoyed not setting an alarm clock, but still woke in plenty of time for the hotel&#8217;s continental breakfast, which was OK but no more.  The weather looked promising, so we took off for a full day of exploring, with the Columbia Icefield as our goal.
We left Banff on the Trans-Canada Highway and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/09/04/a-trip-to-banff-national-park-day-2/</link>
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		<title>A trip to Banff National Park (day 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About three years ago, I participated in a workshop at CSCW on &#8220;Revisiting Online Trust.&#8221;  When the workshop ended, we left with plans to work on a special edition of a journal, but that didn&#8217;t happen.  What did happen, though, was that I was thoroughly impressed with the venue, the Fairmont Banff Springs, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/09/03/a-trip-to-banff-national-park-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Controlling the Airport from the command line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both my MacBook Pro and my 20&#8243; iMac are running Leopard 10.5.8.  On both machines, it&#8217;s easy to turn off the Airport from the command line:

sudo ifconfig en1 down


On the MacBook Pro, it&#8217;s also easy to turn the Airport back on in the obvious way:

sudo ifconfig en1 up



But on the iMac, nothing happens if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/08/14/controlling-the-airport-from-the-command-line/</link>
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		<title>links for 2009-08-13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Johnny Chung Lee &#8211; Projects &#8211; Wii
How to use a Wiimote in ways that Nintendo didn&#039;t anticipate
(tags: wiimote whiteboard)


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		<link>http://readthisblog.net/2009/08/13/links-for-2009-08-13/</link>
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