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	<title>Joshua Nozzi</title>
	<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name</link>
	<description>SOFTWARE DEVELOPER · USABILITY ANALYST · NETWORK ENGINEER</description>
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		<title>UUID As Last Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People have trouble with their last names (surnames, family names, whatever you call them in your part of the world). Spelling them over the phone, pronouncing them, being misidentified by them because they're not unique enough. For all the complaining, I propose action that wouldn't solve this problem, but at least make it fun. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/02/uuid-as-last-name/</link>
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		<title>Mozy Online Backup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave Mozy's online backup service a try. This is partially due to my effort to unburden myself as mentioned in my "Real Work" post. Two days after signing up, I was given a refund for my year of prepaid service (minus 10% "credit card processing fee"). What went wrong? 
First, let me give you the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/02/mozy-online-backup/</link>
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		<title>Snowpokalypse Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted atwitter a few moments ago:

Snowpokalypse II: The Whiteout
"Hell Hath no Flurry Like Another Storm"

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		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/02/snowpokalypse-series/</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs has Millions of Spurned Lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Against my better judgment, I read the comments on an Apple-related post on Slashdot. The expected levels of stupidity were indeed still present. This time with a sprinkling of entitlement and warped views of the world. One comment stood out in particular: the sentiment that Jobs "sold [customers] out to publishers." 
Like a spurned lover, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/02/spurned-lovers/</link>
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		<title>Real Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I might as well weigh in on my thoughts regarding the iPad. The phrase "real work" is being thrown about and Fraser Speirs has his own views. Sadly, I have to be realistic and keep my feet on the ground. 
"Real"
Speirs has a very good point:
The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/01/real-work/</link>
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		<title>All is Lost!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found something I'd written from a few years ago. I stuffed it into a "junk drawer" type of folder and promptly forgot all about it. 
We have not factored in
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;all the variables.
All is lost, all is lost.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Everything is lost.
We have failed to predict
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;any of the effects.
All is lost, all is lost,
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;understand? It's lost.
We could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/01/all-is-lost/</link>
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		<title>Kino-Eye.com Has a Crush on Transcriva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[... it's been going on about five years now and I think it's getting serious. David and Transcriva, sittin' in a tree, t-r-a-n-s-c-r-i-b-I-N-G ... ;-)
David Tamés of kino-eye.com had some pretty nice things to say about Transcriva about five years ago. In fact, his review of Transcriva 1 still drives the occasional visitor to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/01/kino-eye-com-has-a-crush-on-transcriva/</link>
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		<title>Temporis in Mac&#124;Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Temporis was featured in the February issue of Mac&#124;Life magazine in print and on the web.

The timeline app was given a very positive - if brief - mention. It's nice to see it's still loved a few years after its initial release. I had put a lot of polish into it.
Thanks to @salconigliaro for snapping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2010/01/temporis-in-maclife/</link>
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		<title>Weathering the Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The storm was approaching. Everybody said it would break records. I stocked up on the only essentials we were missing: wine, coffee, and milk for said coffee. Since everything in the house is electric and we have no generator, we also hoped we'd have heat, a stove, and of course TV and Internet. (UPDATED!)
... we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/12/weathering-the-storm/</link>
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		<title>Random Pre-Sleep Thought #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of boring you with another of these so soon, this one was actually interesting to me because I have no idea what brought me to it. I was in and out of sleep for awhile before it "arrived". 
All over the Earth they plunder with mirth,
they steal and they waste what they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/12/random-pre-sleep-thought-2/</link>
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		<title>2009 NIAID CIO Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was proud to stand with my colleagues and receive the 2009 National Institute of Allergy &#38; Infectious Diseases Chief Information Officer Award for our hard work on the Papillomavirus Episteme (PaVE). 
PaVE is a public-facing research tool for biologists researching the Papillomaviridae family of viruses. I was (and continue to be) the usability analyst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/12/niaid-cio-award/</link>
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		<title>Random Pre-Sleep Thought #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like anyone else, I worry over the things most important to me as I drift off to sleep. As I approach and enter the hypnagogic state - where free association and the subconscious seem to take over - my thoughts take on an entirely different form. Sometimes odd scenes play out with a voice narrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/12/random-pre-sleep-thought-1/</link>
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		<title>New York Times Gets Medieval on CamelCase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caleb Crain wrote an article about the use of "camel case" (MasterCard, iPhone, AnythingNotSeparatedWithSpaces) on the New York Times. His point: Camel case is evil and must be destroyed.
In other words, though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology, its effect is regressive — in fact, medieval.
Absurd. 
It reeks of angry old man. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/12/nyt-medieval-on-camelcase/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect Candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got some spam today.
Dear Joshua Nozzi: After reviewing your resume at the Careerbuilder website we are confident you meet our requirements for a financial manager position ...
Dear [redacted]: After reviewing your e-mail, I am confident that you meet the requirements for a spammer. DIAF, KTHXBYE.  
I'm becoming increasingly tired of Careerbuilder and Monster. I keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/the-perfect-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Transcriva 2 Named Apple Staff Pick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple named Transcriva 2 (2.014) as a Staff Pick on the Productivity Tools section of their download site. It's always nice to know the "Mothership" is watching. 
For those unfamiliar, Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. It's a low-cost, high-organization alternative to voice recognition packages (we hates them, we hates the voice recognition packages!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/transcriva-2-named-apple-staff-pick/</link>
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		<title>Talking Face Speech Synthesizer Demo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question was posted on StackOverflow about whether the ability existed on the Mac OS to match a talking head or face to the spoken phonemes of the built-in speech synthesizer. The answer is: of course there is, it's a Mac! I'll show you how it's done. 
The two key terms for which to search the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/talking-face-speech-synthesizer-demo/</link>
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		<title>Transcriva 2.014 Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I released Transcriva 2.014 this morning. Transcriva is transcription software for your Mac.
The changes include:

Fixed bug where adding a person to a transcript then undoing would cause an error.
Fixed bug where the end-of-clip chime would not play when requested.
Fixed bug where media controls in transcript properties didn’t update when a clip became available or unavailable.
Added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/transcriva-2-014-update/</link>
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		<title>Canceling Privacy Assist and Asshole Tactics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to cancel my "Privacy Assist" credit monitoring account through Bank of America. Fun times, fun times. 
I'd used Bank of America's Privacy Assist  service for a few years. Recently, I pulled a credit report for all three bureaus to see where I stood. Thanks for that by the way, Comcast, my several-years-closed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/canceling-privacy-assist-and-asshole-tactics/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurial Laziness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me: It's good to be lazy. Entrepreneurs start out by doing everything themselves. To prevent burn-out and "streamline" their operations, they must automate as much as possible. 
Burn-out is a very real threat to any entrepreneur. Spending too much time and energy micromanaging every aspect of your venture will inevitably exhaust you and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/entrepreneurial-laziness/</link>
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		<title>Drag Effect In Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted my solution to the IB3-like drag-from-library-palette effect called "JLNDragEffectManager". Today I released an update to XTabulator (2.002) that contains this effect when dragging rows to the desktop or a folder to create new files. It's a perfect demonstration of how "drag effects" can be used for excellent user feedback in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joshua.nozzi.name/2009/11/drag-effect-in-action/</link>
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