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	<description>You're reading the bite-sized musings on travel, technology, and other miscellaneous topics by Anna and Jeff Watkins from Los Gatos, a small town nestled in the hills at the southern end of Silicon Valley.</description>
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		<title>Twenty Years Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beatle&#8217;s Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band begins:


  It was twenty years ago today,&#60;br/>
  Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play&#60;br/>
  They&#8217;ve been going in and out of style&#60;br/>
  But they&#8217;re guaranteed to raise a smile.


It occurred to me this morning that this summer is the twentieth anniversary of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivering the Screens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re deep in the throws of releasing a new product. And I&#8217;m the guy building the user interface. While that&#8217;s fun, our rather over-ambitious schedule &#8212; delivering frozen code by 11 November &#8212; means I&#8217;ve had to crank out massive UI goodness in minimal time.

This includes a complete framework for building user interfaces in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Since When Did Web-Site Postings Count?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like to know. Anna seems to think that merely telling everyone who reads our Web site (both of you) that I&#8217;m bribing her to write constitutes writing&#8230;

I&#8217;m not so certain I agree with that. But as I didn&#8217;t clarify my offer, I suppose I&#8217;ll have to live with it this week.

Next week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bribery Will Get You Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the months since moving to Newburyport, my dearest husband Jeff has
tried any number of techniques to get yours truly to take up writing rather than, as he likes to put it, &#8220;sitting around all day and eating bon-bons.&#8221;
These have included: hinting, openly suggesting, flattering my writing skills, insisting, and now finally, bribery.

From now on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I drive up to Andover, MA. Tomorrow I start my new job as
Sales Engineer for Sentillion.

I&#8217;m just a little apprehensive. I&#8217;ve done the whole move thing
countless times before. And I&#8217;ve started quite a few new jobs in my
day. However, I&#8217;ve never done it quite like this: I&#8217;ll be living out of
a hotel for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Job, Another Town</title>
		<link>http://metrocat.org/2004/10/another-job-another-town</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have in my hot little hands a one year contract to provide
software development services to Sentillion Software. So, at last,
I&#8217;ll be back at work in the software industry; this time actually
writing software.

Sentillion is located in Andover, MA. While I&#8217;d been targeting the
southern NH area, this is almost as good. Andover has some significant
things going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that it&#8217;s official &#8212; I have the offer letter in my hot
little hands &#8212; I feel comfortable spilling the beans.

As many of you know, I left IBG at the end of February. It was no
secret that Anna and I despised living in Jersey City. And although I
knew I&#8217;d miss many of my co-workers, IBG [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Calls Work Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the lessons I&#8217;ve learned from reading What Color Is
Your Parachute and many articles over at Ask the Headhunter is that
the traditional method of job seeking just doesn&#8217;t work. You type up
your r&#233;sum&#233; and send it off along with a cover letter in
response to vaguely worded job advertisements &#8212; most of which are
fictitious.

Without an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cringley on PowerPoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Cringley&#8217;
s latest article, he takes on the way business uses PowerPoint
presentations. It&#8217;s about time someone spoke up about this practice of
using slides in lieu of real information.


    Read The
    Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte for a sobering
    analysis of how the truth typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodnight, Sweet Temp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you are probably already too aware, for the past four
months I have been working as a temp for a local financial services
company. In fact, yesterday I celebrated the fact that I had been
working for exactly four months continuously- almost a new
personal record (since I returned from California).

Alas, it would appear that today [...]]]></description>
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