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		<title>Where is News Going?</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/where-is-news-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnal Ramblings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I came across two articles that I found really disturbing.
The first is from The Hill,  Dick Morris wrote an article &#8220;Obama vs. Freedom&#8221; about possibly subsidizing news media.  Now I can&#8217;t think of anytime in the last 4 years that I have known about Dick Morris that I have agreed with him, but on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Cluster &#8211; Time to test?</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/mysql-cluster-time-to-test/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/mysql-cluster-time-to-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend just sent me a link to MySQL Cluster Sandbox and it looks pretty interesting.  I work on a site that is in the middle of needing bleeding edge database architecture and a good run-of-the-mill redundant system.  Historically we have simply thrown more hardware at the problem, but it seems like we have hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Nervous About Bing??</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/is-google-nervous-about-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuff Happing on the Net]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Official Google Blog today they announce Freeze frame, which allows users to create their own background images.  The samples given look remarkably like Bing [sample here].  I don&#8217;t know about you, but one of the things I like about Google is the lack of this sort of thing.
This does lead me to believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smokescreen &#8211; Open Source Solution to Flash</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/smokescreen-open-source-solution-to-flash/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/smokescreen-open-source-solution-to-flash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications/Scripts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=30</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Smokescreen (preview) is an open source solution to the Flash question.  I am no fan of Flash, never have been, but I am also a text only email kind of guy, so take that with a grain of salt.
So in this fight between Apple and Adobe I tend to fall on the Apple side, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JQuery Alert Notices</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/jquery-alert-notices/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/jquery-alert-notices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Boagworld for tweeting this wonderful Pines Notify jQuery Plugin.
It seems to have a whole bunch of features I could employ [although a little too late] into a current project:
Timed hiding with visual effects.
Sticky (no automatic hiding) notices.
Optional hide button.
Supports dynamically updating text, title, icon, type&#8230;
Stacks allow notice sets to stack independently.
Control stack direction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A/B Testing</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/ab-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2010/06/ab-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice, short &#8211; and to the point &#8211; post about A/B testing and the results it yielded.
I know in most projects I have worked on recently A/B testing has not gone beyond internal back-and-forth.  Something I hope to change moving forward.  It we could only budget the time to do so.
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		<title>Name Brand vs. Nameless Brand?</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/name-brand-vs-nameless-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/name-brand-vs-nameless-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=9</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks a discussion at work has revolved around the use of  &#8216;name brand&#8217; [read: Dell, HP, Compaq, etc] vs. &#8216;Nameless&#8217; [read: custom configurations without a logo] for servers.  These servers will be used for a variety of tasks, but mostly web and database work.
For the last 4 years or so we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Been A Week &#8211; Nothing New</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/been-a-week-nothing-new/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/been-a-week-nothing-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 21:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnal Ramblings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well there is a lot I would like to do on this blog &#8211; but I haven&#8217;t gotten to step one.  I would like to change the icon &#8211; or maybe the theme altogether, but no &#8211; no progress.
I am still trying to figure out what I am going to write about, but work keeps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beginning&#8230;  The First Post</title>
		<link>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/a-beginning-the-first-post/</link>
		<comments>http://blackdirt.net/2009/05/a-beginning-the-first-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnal Ramblings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackdirt.net/?p=3</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe at some point there will be something of interest here, but for now I am only experimenting.  The source of this blog came from a conversation about how if you work on the web you should have a blog.  I am not the sort to actually place everything out on the web &#8211; so [...]]]></description>
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