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	<description>Thoughts on Life, Work, Technology, and Society</description>
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		<title>Testing My Latest Car (#14) As If It Were Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I make my living by providing custom software solutions to small businesses.  To stay sane  in this industry one thing you have to learn to do is test, test, test, test, test&#8230;  It is much easier to fix a bug before something gets delivered to a customer then after.  And nothing is worse then waking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s PI Day!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a year a day with the best Christmas Dessert&#8217;s but without the stress of traveling and extended family comes along. PI DAY!!!! So, go out and celebrate.  Buy yourself your favorite Pi and Chow down!]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunities In America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked for a few minutes with someone who recently immigrated from Germany.  His story was interesting and is a classic example of the opportunities here in America. He came to the US 4 years ago from Germany.  When he arrived he knew two words of English &#8220;Yes&#8221;, and &#8220;No&#8221;, was married, and in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manipulating Someone For their own Betterment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a topic I frequently ponder. Is it wrong to manipulate / influence someone for their own good. I think the line between good and bad is close to the line between influencing or manipulating.  Are you guiding them to a good decision or forcing them down the path you want without them even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of the 5 Love Languages?  Do you know the love languages of the most important people in your life?  Your kids? Your Spouse?  Your friends? What I believe is the most important principle of leadership is love.  I believe that showing love for those you lead is the most powerful thing you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLS Head Gaskets&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://joeynovak.com/blog/life/mls-head-gaskets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently changed the head gasket for a friend of mine who overheated his Mitsubishi Gallant.  I thought we were screwed when I started it up and it made LOTS of white smoke.  I was thinking maybe the block was cracked, or I did something wrong; Which is silly because we did EVERYTHING right.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our spacialy challanged dog Teddy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have an old dog, that has some trouble with spacial coordination&#8230;  He doesn&#8217;t like going backwards&#8230;  Almost won&#8217;t do it, so he is very careful never to walk into a corner&#8230; He also has a hard time getting things through the dog door&#8230;  See the picture below of him trying to get a bone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police at 2AM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, my wife and I were drifting to sleep after an hour of playing plants vs zombies on our iPhones when we were awakened from sleep by our doorbell.  It was 2am.  As I got out of bed to answer the door I was thinking, &#8220;who would ring our doorbell urgently at 2am?&#8221;  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the TSA Legally Circumvents the Fourth Amendment</title>
		<link>http://joeynovak.com/blog/life/how-the-tsa-legally-circumvents-the-fourth-amendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this really good write up of how the TSA circumvents the 4th amendment.&#160; Specifically their new extremely intrusive pat down methods.&#160; As the author points out, screaming and yelling isn&#8217;t going to fix it.&#160; To solve it, a bunch of people need to get together and follow the correct legal course of action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Test of Quality and Customer Satisfaction.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://joeynovak.com/blog/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a few pairs of an expensive brand name product with a reputation for quality.  To my dismay, they failed within months of purchase and my cheaper equivalents outlasted them by over a year.  Today while cleaning house I found them and am sending them back to the manufacturer with a note.  I have [...]]]></description>
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