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		<title>Love ASCII Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this ASCII art in a comment on YouTube and thought it was so awesome and wanted to share it:

I know it's probably all over the web and been around forever, but this is the first time I've seen it, and I LOVE it! Enjoy!
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		<title>Good Reads: High-Availability Storage Systems and Recommendation Algorithms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have three papers today that are relevant to a project I'm working on. They're all under 10 pages and easy to read.
First is a white paper by Siddharth Anand, Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems. This paper makes many of the points I've been trying to coalesce in my mind and communicate recently regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Tricks: Android Memory Leaks and Red Hat RPM Circular Dependencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned two nifty tricks this week that are totally unrelated to each other.
One: if you get into a circular dependency when installing Red Hat RPMs, you can list them all in the install command at once. I think I knew this in the past, but it's been a long time since I had that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/geekery/2-tricks-android-memleak-rpm-circular-dep/</link>
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		<title>Cassandra 0.7 and Hector for Noobs, Part 2 Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part two of the series about bringing up a 3 node Cassandra cluster running on Amazon EC2  instances with a modest Java program using the Hector client and the  cluster. The first part was an overview covering a variety of topics, including bringing up Cassandra for the first time, the Cassandra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/programming/java/cassandra-hector-4-noobs-part2-amazon/</link>
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		<title>A New Favorite Web Security Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom, wonderful person that she is, sent me the Web Security Testing Cookbook by Paco Hope and Ben Walther, and it's just delicious. I've been endlessly fiddling with my computer installing new tools and trying out the recipes ever since. This is fun stuff!
The book is packed with delightful recipes with titles such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With QR Codes and Android Phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn't resist playing around with QR codes today after a new bit.ly QR code generator hit the news.
This image is the QR code for my most recent post to this blog.
My Android phone worked incredibly well as far as reading the code and then opening the browser to the page. Such fun! Then I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cassandra 0.7 and Hector for Noobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been fiddling around with Cassandra 0.7 Beta2 and the Hector Java client (because I must be a closet masochist messing with a beta [update Cassandra 0.7 is no longer in beta, so please give it a try!]). Since documentation for these is seriously lacking [but getting better], I decided to write up my discoveries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Ada Lovelace Day Post &#8211; CS Role Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted earlier for Ada Lovelace Day about LinuxChix.org as a great resource for women in technology, and now I'm getting into the groove and want to add another post, this time about my first female role model in computer science.
Dr. Neelima Shrikhande is a professor of computer science at Central Michigan University. At the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/computer-science/another-ada-lovelace-day-post-cs-role-model/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and Women in Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 24th has been designated as Ada Lovelace Day and is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in science and technology. FindingAda.com is encouraging women to blog about this today.
I've not paid much attention to her aside from being aware of her and knowing she's the namesake of the Ada programming language, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/geekery/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-and-women-in-technology/</link>
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		<title>A Loosely Coupled Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Build loosely coupled systems." That was one nugget of recurring advice given last night by Jorge Noa, CTO of HyperStratus when he spoke at a meet-up titled "Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing and Application Design" held at HackerDojo (see slides here - pdf and I also found the same slide show already online here as an [...]]]></description>
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