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		<title>A Sampling of the x86 Bootstrap Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking forward to a three day weekend, I thought about what I could do to pretty much relax from work. I have always been curious about the bootstrap process on a PC, but I never had the time or skill to understand the assembly language and process involved in writing one. After having exposure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMZN: Amazing Delay Times!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The order was submitted on September 10, 2007. It was previously delayed until sometime between October and November. Now, the delivery date is estimated at January 9 to January 11 of the following year! Amazon is amazing. I&#8217;m afraid that if we stick around again, they&#8217;ll just move the delivery date another quarter. I simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>æ–°å¹´æ˜Žã‘ã¾ã—ã¦ãŠã‚ã§ã¨ã†ã”ã–ã„ã¾ã™ï¼</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20070101/shinnen-akemashite-omedetoo-gozaimasu</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before setting resolutions for 2007, I should reflect on my 2006 resolutions of organizing, rethinking, focusing, and succeeding. Workspace organization has improved incrementally throughout the year, and it continues to be a work in progress. I have placed much effort in minimizing my drive for perfection and made myself more comfortable in dealing with systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Tag Game</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20061218/blog-tag-game</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, David got me into this. The idea is to share five things about yourself that people may not know, then tag five bloggers so they can rinse, lather and repeat. I was tagged by David Gagne, who was tagged by Speaking Freely, who was tagged by MarketingGuy, who was tagged by Aaron Shear. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCI&#8217;s School of ICS Makes Slashdot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UCI&#8217;s School of Informaiton &#38; Computer Science made Slashdot today for their research in topic modeling. Organizing a large number of texts in such a way that mining the collection for useful information can be done effeciently is a challenging task. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images has been on my Amazon Wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy SysAdmin Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Mike Marquez for pointing out to me that SysAdmin Day is tomorrow, July 28. Happy SysAdmin Day to Eric of MSA, Andrew of ISM, Jay of Opt3, the people at our co-lo, and to everyone else that is &#8220;In the Trenches (IT).&#8221; When the shit hits the fan, technically speaking, we appreciate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time has been scarce these past few weeks, and this week in particular has been the busiest. Recovery time from work has been compressed to approximately three hours a day. Each work day this week has started at approximately 6:30am. At that time, a 1.5-hour commute to Irvine begins. Then, approximately seven to nine hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drop MSFT, and Pick Up RHAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading Ed Bott&#8217;s &#8220;Is Microsoft about to release a Windows &#8216;kill switch&#8217;?&#8221; , my only recommendation is that people take their money out of Microsoft and put it somewhere else. A computer that runs Microsoft Windows, pirated or not, is owned by a potential customer for software publishers that target the platform. Microsoft might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T Tech Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of negative sentiment on technical support and customer care representatives lately. I&#8217;ve voiced some frustration with Sprint&#8217;s front-line technical support staff before. Poor customer service over the phone has also been publicized with Vincent Ferrari&#8217;s AOL episode as well as a recent video taping of a Comcast technician sleeping on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SprintPCS Technical Support</title>
		<link>http://blog.stevedoria.net/20060613/sprintpcs-technical-support</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After setting up and testing network monitoring software for one of our co-lo sites, it became apparent that mx.messaging.sprintpcs.com was rejecting connections from the monitoring server. I used typical methods, which include using telnet to connect to the SMTP port while analyzing the connection with a packet sniffer, to determine that the problem was with [...]]]></description>
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