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		<title>What do you want to see?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: If you&#8217;re seeing this on facebook, it is just pulled in from my blog at http://seancolombo.com
I&#8217;m in the mood to do some blogging in the next couple of days but have more ideas than time.  What would YOU find most interesting?  I&#8217;m thinking along the lines of either analyzing LyricWiki statistics or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2010/03/04/what-do-you-want-to-see/</link>
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		<title>When to release a software project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something I&#8217;ve thought about for a long time and I think I&#8217;ve finally come up with a succinct answer: as soon as possible with the minimum set of features that still lets the project accomplish its core goals.
Before we get into this full-steam, there are obviously exceptions such as big title video games [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2010/01/24/when-to-release-a-software-project/</link>
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		<title>2010 Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always resisted making New Years Resolutions partly because they don&#8217;t seem to work for people, but primarily because I think that I should be constantly evaluating myself and my life &#8211; and if there is something I need to fix that should be worked on immediately instead of waiting for an arbitrary time once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2010/01/20/2010-goals/</link>
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		<title>Pittsburgh G20 Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll put up more pics and captioned versions in a bit, but to give you a preview&#8230; here are some of my pictures of the G20.
Update: Here are the captioned pictures of the G20 in Pittsburgh.  This set has considerably more pictures.  There were 61 shots in the first set and 314 shots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/09/28/g20-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Quick tip: how to save your phone after dropping it in (boiling) water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from an email I sent last night.  If you don&#8217;t know me and just want to know how to save your phone, feel free to jump over it:
So while I was boiling my pasta tonight, apparently my body had the urge to include some additional ingredients for once as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/09/08/quick-tip-how-to-save-your-phone-after-dropping-it-in-boiling-water/</link>
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		<title>Happy 4th Birthday, Motive Force!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks 4 years since Motive Force LLC was officially founded.  I&#8217;m proud of my baby growing up!  There are various stats about survival-rates for nascent companies, but in general they say that about 50% die off in the first year, and then 50% of the remaining companies die each year after.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/07/07/happy-4th-birthday-motive-force/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Do huge MySQL queries in batches when using PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When using PHP to make MySQL queries, it is significantly better for performance to break one extremely large query into smaller queries.  In my testing, there was a query which returned 1 million rows and took 19,275 seconds (5 hours, 20 minutes) to traverse the results.  By breaking that query up into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/07/05/quick-tip-do-huge-mysql-queries-in-batches-when-using-php/</link>
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		<title>Finished the Pittsburgh Half Marathon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I ran the Pittsburgh Half Marathon and it was a total blast!  If you&#8217;re not familiar with a half-marathon, it&#8217;s 13.1 miles which is pretty long, but my hat goes off to the people running the 26.2 miles of the full marathon that day.  My goal when I decided to run the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/05/14/finished-the-pittsburgh-half-marathon/</link>
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		<title>Old, quick app &#8211; &#8220;Runner&#8217;s Calculator&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Google Alerts, I ran into an old web-application I made.  It was a simple Runner&#8217;s Calculator and it was one of my first little standalone PHP programs.  It&#8217;s literally from the summer of 2004 (ancient history!) before the term &#8220;AJAX&#8221; was even coined, so you actually have to press a submit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/03/11/old-quick-app-runners-calculator/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Generate Random Numbers in a MySQL Query</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticed a dearth of Google articles about this so I figured I&#8217;d post my solution&#8230;
If you need to generate a random number inside of a MySQL query (which is useful for making fake test-data), you can do it as follows:
SELECT floor(rand() * 10) as randNum;
Which would generate a random integer from 0 to 9 inclusive. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.seancolombo.com/2009/01/14/quick-tip-generate-random-numbers-in-a-mysql-query/</link>
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