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		<title>Recruiting via LinkedIn &#8211; Don&#8217;t Do This!</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2012/01/24/recruiting-via-linkedin-dont-do-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2012/01/24/recruiting-via-linkedin-dont-do-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly get emails from recruiters all over the planet, telling me about their awesome new technology, latest and greatest ideas, and why I should work for them. Most get ignored. One came in this week that annoyed me, since it was from someone at a company that had sent me the exact same email six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chatting with a robot</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2012/01/05/chatting-with-a-robot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, sitting calmly, trying to figure out the reasoning for the universe, and I get a GChat notification that someone wants to chat with me. Here&#8217;s the transcript: 10:29:12 AM caitlyn ball: hi 10:29:17 AM miketheman: hi 10:29:24 AM caitlyn ball: hey whats up? 22/F here. you? pinklorelai7@aol.com is now known as caitlyn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask your systems: &#8220;What&#8217;s going on?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/11/28/ask-your-systems-whats-going-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/11/28/ask-your-systems-whats-going-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chef]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.miketheman.net/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a sysadmin/devops-style post. Disclaimers are that I work with these tools and people, and like what they do. In some amount of our professional lives, we are tasked with bringing order to chaos, keep systems running and have the businesses we work for continue functioning. In our modern days of large-scale computing, web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Tripping, Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/10/16/road-tripping-day-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/10/16/road-tripping-day-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Elyssa and I decided to go on a road trip. More like Elyssa decided, and I agreed, but you see what I mean. I got on a bus to meet her in NJ, and made it by running out to the bus as it had already pulled away from the station at Port Authority, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast and Furious Monitoring</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/08/11/fast-and-furious-monitoring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/08/11/fast-and-furious-monitoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been working with a company that is using ScoutApp&#8216;s hosted monitoring service, which provides a nice interface to quickly get up and running with a lot of basic information about a system. This SaaS solution, while a paid service, allows a team to get their monitoring metrics put into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon Web Site fail.</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/08/03/verizon-web-site-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/08/03/verizon-web-site-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.miketheman.net/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Need I say more? General Info Chat start time  Aug 3, 2011 9:44:43 PM EST Chat end time  Aug 3, 2011 10:37:08 PM EST Duration (actual chatting time)  00:52:25 Operator  Amber &#160; Chat Transcript info: Please hold for a Verizon Wireless sales representative to assist you with your order.  Thank you for your patience. info: You are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit on this, and logrotate!</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/02/10/sit-on-this-and-logrotate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/02/10/sit-on-this-and-logrotate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Stuff]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.miketheman.net/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since a lot of what everyone does on those pesky devices called &#8220;comp-you-tars&#8221; is becoming increasingly more business-critical, and we&#8217;ve come to a point where a web company that has &#8220;one server that we all use&#8221; is going nowhere, we have piles of lovely silicon and metal, with electric pulses flowing through them to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beat keeps moving on.</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/19/the-beat-keeps-moving-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/19/the-beat-keeps-moving-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[airport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here in another airport waiting area, I again realize the futility of airport security. The entire TSA was probably created to give people jobs and create a semblance of security. This time, I got into the line at LAX &#8211; United that had the scary body scanner. I stood in two blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, but no thanks, Verizon!</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/14/thanks-but-no-thanks-verizon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/14/thanks-but-no-thanks-verizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.miketheman.net/?p=417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess Verizon think they know what&#8217;s best for me. Recently got a nice little Verizon USB 760 Modem from work, not a new concept for me, just something to keep in touch while on the go. Unfortunately, the Verizon Access Manager software most decidedly does NOT install correctly on my Mac. Instead, it tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You call this security? You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me</title>
		<link>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/03/you-call-this-security-youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.miketheman.net/2011/01/03/you-call-this-security-youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeTheMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[annoyance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.miketheman.net/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the phone with PayPal&#8217;s customer service department. The reason I was on the phone in the first place &#8211; because you probably know how much I absolutely love talking to customer service representatives &#8211; is that I was trying to be a good Netizen. I received a couple &#8211; not one [...]]]></description>
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