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	<title>Welcome to the Funcave &#187; epiphany</title>
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		<title>The Death Of My Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<title>Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Again.</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/09/never-forgive-never-forget-never-again.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Cake Is Not A Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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This Father&#8217;s Day dessert brought to you (and me) by AoME and CaaB. All homemade, and so good you&#8217;d swear it&#8217;s gotta be illegal.
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		<title>The Last 100 Miles</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/05/the-last-100-miles.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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The Career Express comes to an end this morning, at the Tech-Ed North America conference in Los Angeles. Just 100 more miles to go. And I&#8217;m pretty bummed about it, all things considered.
Sure it&#8217;ll be nice to get back to living without wheels. But this trip was absolutely everything I thought it would be, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Antelope Rides Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My amazingly kickass freelance writer of a wife chalked up another cover story this month, this time about the living legend of NASCAR, Jeff Gordon…

Of course, she interviewed him back in the summer during a weekend event. Which just so happened to be the same weekend as the Brickyard 400. At Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As in, Indy. THE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Great Female Action Star</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/the-next-great-female-action-star.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been plenty of great female action&#160;stars on the big screen over the years&#8230;

Marion Ravenwood

Lara Croft

Every character played by Michelle Yeoh
and even&#8230;

Dora The Explorer
Pixar just gave us another one&#8230;


A&#160;long long time ago, in a lifetime far far away (20 years to be exact)&#8230;

I&#160;was in a session at a writer&#8217;s conference where a very well-known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today Is A Big Day For Me And 39 Good Friends Of Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the final class meeting for the 25th anniversary class of Leadership Tuscaloosa. This afternoon, we graduate.
I’m feeling…really overwhelmed by it already.
When I applied for Leadership Tuscaloosa, I knew it would be great. Even Running Antelope knew how important it was to me. When my acceptance letter came, I was away travelling somewhere. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Be A Choir</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/lets-be-a-choir.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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I want to say BIG HUGE thanks to everyone who has filled out the Mobility survey so far.
I am truly, honestly, and utterly amazed, humbled, and grateful at all the fantastic response from those folks who attended my talk on Mobility at the SBSmigration conference in New Orleans this weekend.
I really hope that the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Personal Answer To Mark&#8217;s Question</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/a-personal-answer-to-marks-question.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Everyone has their own reasons for going or not going to&#160;a given&#160;conference or summit. So the universal answer I just gave doesn&#8217;t fully answer Mark&#8217;s question for everyone.
And seeing as how I would never assume nor expect to speak for everyone, I can only speak for myself&#8230;
There are several reasons I did not put SMB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter From A Friend</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/03/letter-from-a-friend.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Rather than the half-baked foolishness and idiocy which normally rules this day each year, I cannot imagine a more appropriate&#160;thing for you to read than this, arguably one of the&#160;most important documents ever&#160;crafted in the history of the United States. As such,&#160;the following&#160;letter deserves nothing less than your serious and undivided attention. All best, Chris.
FRIENDS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before Versus After</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/03/before-versus-after.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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I had planned a couple of posts about an amazing trip I enjoyed yesterday. About how being able to spend time on a school field trip with one of my kids all day yesterday&#160;has&#160;to be the absolute best&#160;of&#160;the seriously&#160;kickass&#160;benefits&#160;I&#160;reap&#160;as an entrepeneur.
Thing is&#8230;
The trip yesterday? We visited the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind The Green Curtain</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/02/behind-the-green-curtain.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AKA Trust Is For Suckers

I have clipart of a server room on my web page, so I must know what I&#8217;m talking about!
Trust is a funny thing.
Some people won&#8217;t trust anything they have to pay for. Other people distrust anything that has the word Free attached to it.
Here&#8217;s the thing about that&#8230;
Free Is Never Really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27,000 Pounds And What Do You Get?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/01/27000-pounds-and-what-do-you-get.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/01/27000-pounds-and-what-do-you-get.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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A whole heaping pile of electronic equipment that won&#8217;t be eating up precious landfill space or poisoning the environment, that&#8217;s what!
Instead, we&#8217;re talking tons (literally!) of reclaimed industrial plastics, metal, glass and other components that&#160;will be re-used, rather than wasted.
E-Cycling Day, the event sponsored by our local Chamber of Commerce AND the one I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Antelope&#8217;s Favorite Video Of The Day 2</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/11/running-antelopes-favorite-video-of-the-day-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mr. &#8220;More British Than British&#8221; Simon Cowell can&#8217;t say anything even remotely ass-like about you&#8230;

You&#8217;re headed for greatness.
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		<title>Mountain View Shook Up The World!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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For those of you hiding under rocks&#8230;
There was BIG HUGE NEWS in the world of mobility today, which is likely to change the landscape forever.
No&#8230;Apple didn&#8217;t announce a new iPhone.
Google finally revealed its long-rumored play in the wireless mobile market.
And boy&#8230;
It&#8217;s a DOOZY!
So, get familiar with this new acronym&#8230;
O H A
Which stands for&#8230;
Open Handset Alliance
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Antelope&#8217;s Favorite Video Of The Day</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/running-antelopes-favorite-video-of-the-day.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s awesome having&#160;my very own YouTube Guide forwarding stuff like this to me&#8230;

Watch close for all the standing Os this guy gets.
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		<title>Watch This</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t care when. Don&#8217;t care how. Just watch it sometime.
 
Final lecture of Randy Pausch, delivered at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007.
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		<title>A Kentuck Of A Place</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/a-kentuck-of-a-place.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes&#8230;
It&#8217;s time to disconnect a bit. Which I find can be&#160;best&#160;accomplished by reconnecting to something which is entirely different from the things in your everyday routine.
Which is why I&#8217;m planning to check out the Kentuck Festival of the Arts this weekend.

The Festival&#160;just so happens to be&#160;the premier event of the Kentuck Art Center,&#160;an artists&#8217; colony&#160;located [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s The Birthday Girl Today?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/whos-the-birthday-girl-today.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/whos-the-birthday-girl-today.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why&#8230;
It&#8217;s Running Antelope!

So please give a big Funcave shoutout to my girl on her special day.
Oops&#8230;
Uhh&#8230;
I mean&#8230;
Please give a big Funcave shoutout to a strong, confident, powerful, beautiful woman on her special day.
]]></description>
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		<title>SIMSOC It To Me!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/simsoc-it-to-me.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/simsoc-it-to-me.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[or&#8230;
All Your Base Are&#160;Belong To SIMSOC

Sweet mother of Moses!
As fantastic as Leadership Tuscaloosa has been already,&#160;our second session was, quite frankly&#8230; 
Nothing short of amazing, bordering on spectacular.
This week, for 3 hours on Tuesday night and 8 hours yesterday, we participated in&#160;a session of&#160;SIMSOC AKA Simulated Society,&#160;a free-form live-action sociology game which was first created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community, Heal Thyself</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/community-heal-thyself.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/community-heal-thyself.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Challenge to GroupLeads has been generating a TON of traffic over on the Yahoo Group, and here. Maybe on the Groove site too.
All the subsequent discussion got me thinking&#8230;
How&#160;Is The Community&#160;Any Better Than Microsoft?
What I mean is&#8230;
A common thought about MS, voiced often by a certain Floridian, is that MS has some awesome people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEAM NEWBLOOD Dossier 1 Now Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/team-newblood-dossier-1-now-complete.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/team-newblood-dossier-1-now-complete.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEAM NEWBLOOD Dossier 1 is now complete&#8230;and hotlinked!









So there you have it!
The Dream Team of all dream teams. Anyone who wants to more closely engage with the community should start with one, two, or three of these folks.
Aw heck, go ahead and meet &#8216;em all while you&#8217;re at it!
And if anyone wonders why they weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Dansey Than Dansey</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/more-dansey-than-dansey.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/more-dansey-than-dansey.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write this name down&#8230;
KATE BARNES

If you ever see that name listed at an IT event, make it a point to meet her. I&#8217;m talking run, not walk.
I had the extremely good fortune to make&#160;Kate&#8217;s acquaintance in Orlando this week.
For starters, she&#8217;s from Cincinnati, one of my all-time favorite towns. Which also means she&#8217;s from right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women In Business</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/women-in-business.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/women-in-business.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a session titled Women In Technology at XChange on Tuesday. Now, this was a roundtable of female executives from BMC Software, IBM, Intel &#38; Ricoh, moderated by the always awesome Toni Clayton Hine from IPED. We&#8217;re talking serious Wheel factor here. Several of the panelists were onstage later that evening, accepting major awards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Copernicus On: An Open Challenge to GroupLeads</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/get-your-copernicus-on-an-open-challenge-to-groupleads.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/get-your-copernicus-on-an-open-challenge-to-groupleads.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
There were so many new people I met over the last several days at CMP XChange, it was crucial that I did my card sort last night.
You know&#8230;jotting additional notes on all the biz cards, assigning a priority order for contacting people. I do that before I use my $350 wonder, which magically transforms all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany 1.5</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/epiphany-15.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/epiphany-15.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just got back from CMP&#8217;s XChange show, which&#160;was held in Orlando over the last several days.
I can sum it up in one word&#8230;Hot hot HOT!
And I&#8217;m not just talking about the temperature down around the House of Mouse.
Just when I thought the sheer amount of all-around ass-kickedness&#160;couldn&#8217;t be surpassed by a single conference&#8230;those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Year Later</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/one-year-later.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/one-year-later.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anniversary of sorts&#160;for me today.
And it&#8217;s a bit strange, since the Funcave happens to be deserted.
365 days ago, I had surgery on my neck. To be honest, it&#160;has been&#160;an insanely long long road to recovery. It wasn&#8217;t until my last checkup a&#160;month or so&#160;ago that there was evidence&#160;the second bone graft had finally started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/giving-thanks.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/giving-thanks.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, I&#8217;d like to yet again give a huge thanks to all the new members who have joined the Funboard.
I don&#8217;t mean to sound like a broken robot, but it&#8217;s really heartening to see something you&#8217;ve thought about for several years &#38;&#160;planned in earnest for over 6 months finally come to fruition. But then to&#160;receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Funboard!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/welcome-to-the-funboard.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/welcome-to-the-funboard.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everybody&#8230;
I&#8217;m finally ready to&#160;announce the newest addition here at the Funcave.
Without further ado&#8230;
We&#8217;ve officially opened our very own set of forums, called&#160;the Funboard!
Why the Funboard, you ask? Why not Super Colossal&#160;Amazing Messageboard, or something like that?
Well, if you&#8217;d like the answer to that and several other burning questions&#8230;

you&#8217;ll just have to&#160;climb aboard the SS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/02/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/02/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ever feel like you&#8217;re the subject of one of those what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?&#160;pictures?
i&#8217;ll bet stevie b. does after this little gem.
the new york times has a photo series titled keeping track of steve ballmer posted &#38; boy is it a doozy!
2 pictures in particular caught my eye.

it&#8217;s amazing what you can tell about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/10/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/10/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowee.
So many changes over the last month. Almost too many to count.
After all was said &#038; done…the final result?
Yours truly decided to open his own shop.
So please say hello to…

Black Warrior Technology, LLC
Way too many folks to thank for helping get me to this spot.
The rule of thumb? If I met or had any contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fishers&#8217; Bridge: A Story</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/the-fishers-bridge-a-story.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/the-fishers-bridge-a-story.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A long time ago, there was a community of fishers who lived right on the edge of a gigantic river filled with fish.
Now, since they were on the shore, they all staked out their own spots, squabbling from time to time over who could fish where &#38; when.
They caught some fish here &#38; there.
Not too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>yes, you can be a real writer without having ever been published</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/yes-you-can-be-a-real-writer-without-having-ever-been-published.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/yes-you-can-be-a-real-writer-without-having-ever-been-published.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
i normally don&#8217;t do this&#8230;
but here&#8217;s some very personal information about yours truly that i want to share: 

i hold a bachelor of arts in english degree, with a creative writing emphasis.

i was the editor of my undergraduate institution&#8217;s literary magazine my senior year, which won awards &#38; was sold in area bookstores for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>did someone steal from the funcave, part 1? &amp; tons of stuff about being a writer</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/did-someone-steal-from-the-funcave-part-1-tons-of-stuff-about-being-a-writer.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/did-someone-steal-from-the-funcave-part-1-tons-of-stuff-about-being-a-writer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[basically this is a post about what constitutes plagiarism, especially in this modern age of the web &#38; open information sharing.
and yes folks&#8230;plagiarism is theft. there is no doubt about that.

obviously, anything posted on a publicly accessible website becomes instantly part of the amazingly gigantic &#38; wonderful&#160;world wide web. which means it is wide open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notice the change? also&#8230;carp vs. treasure</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/notice-the-change-alsocarp-vs-treasure.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/notice-the-change-alsocarp-vs-treasure.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[sharp-eyed visitors to the funcave might have noticed that the previous post was changed slightly.
mainly, the logo graphic was changed.
after looking at it some more, hashing it out how it both looked &#38; sounded with&#160;my very good friend, the diva, i decided to go ahead &#38; make the change before i sent it off to [...]]]></description>
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