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		<title>A Few Thoughts About Mid-Market IT</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/a-few-thoughts-about-mid-market-it.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big thanks to Eric Beehler for inviting me to appear on CS Techcast 110 this week. We talked at length about some of the unique challenges facing mid-market IT.

Although the conversation was&#160;spurred mostly by the news&#160;of Microsoft&#8217;s cancelling Essential Business Server v2, we discussed a wide range of topics, including cloud-based services&#160;(big shock there) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EBS Has Left The Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Instead of&#160;my typically convoluted Funcave windup involving some theoretical physics, Bluetooth&#160;and comic book&#160;lore a la &#8220;The Big Bang Theory,&#8221; I&#8217;ll just come right out and say&#160;what&#8217;s up&#160;this time:
Essential Business Server = DEAD
That&#8217;s officially official as of right now, which&#160;should be&#160;8:00 a.m. Pacific Standard time on March 5th, 2010. So what does that really mean?
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Hot To Handle</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/07/too-hot-to-handle.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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That&#8217;s right. 3 out of the last 4 slides on my deck submitted for my last session at WPC&#160;were deemed &#8220;unsuitable&#8221; and &#8220;too risky.&#8221; Other words bandied about were &#8220;copyright,&#8221; &#8220;lawsuit&#8221; and &#8220;knuckle sandwich.&#8221;
In other words&#8230;
You really won&#8217;t want to miss this one, folks.
So if you&#8217;re at WPC&#160;and wanna see what all the fuss it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Are Buzzing About Brand-New Emily</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/people-are-buzzing-about-brand-new-emily.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Ginger already has a slew of reviews and blurbs collected from various folks on her new site at gingerrue.com, which is all part of the whole &#8220;PR and release&#8221; process.
But since the book&#8217;s come out, it&#8217;s been really super cool for her to see the responses from folks who&#8217;ve bought and read&#160;Brand-New Emily. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Down, One To Go</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/one-down-one-to-go.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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The first of my speaking engagements&#160;at Worldwide Partner Conference went smashingly well yesterday. That was the Windows Mobile keynote in room 372 BCEF&#160;talking about&#160;Mobility in Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
The room was full, and I don&#8217;t remember anyone leaving during the session at all. Despite the fact that my own Awesome Per Minute ratio was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Ain&#8217;t So Jones! Say It Ain&#8217;t So!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/say-it-aint-so-jones-say-it-aint-so.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 04:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Let me come right out and get this review over with in one sentence, for those of you who have important things to get done&#8230;
The new Indiana Jones movies&#160;TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY&#160;SUCKS!
Yep, I said it.
Don&#8217;t waste your money on this tired old gasbag of a movie.
In fact, I won&#8217;t waste your time going into the innumerable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Koster Just Kicked My Ass, And With Good Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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And man&#8230;do I deserve it.
In response to the post on pirate ROMs, and how I handled declining to answer a question on how to do it at the NOLA conference, I used the analogy of being a drug user (possession), rather than a drug dealer (distributing), Daniel took me out behind the woodshed and proceeded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, I Don&#8217;t Have A Crystal Ball</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/no-i-dont-have-a-crystal-ball.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But maybe I can tell the future. [EDIT: But I completely forget the link. Doh!]

Been preaching the mobile device revolution was the next big thing for a couple of years now. And decent web browsing would be the key.
Honestly, there&#8217;s no magic.&#160;You can see what&#8217;s coming, as long as&#160;you are&#160;paying attention.
If you don&#8217;t, I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between A Rock And A Hard Place: The War On ROMs</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-the-war-on-roms.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 04:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Again&#8230;let me tell you how astonished, humbled, and amazed&#160;at how many of you got real, tangible value out of the talk on Mobility I delivered in New Orleans this weekend.
I appreciate EVERYONE who has already filled out the Mobility Survey. I will be responding to each of you individually about your awesome awesome comments. that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobility Session Survey Available Now for NOLA Attendees</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/mobility-session-survey-available-now-for-nola-attendees.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the long long delay in getting this info posted up here.
I know that I announced to all the attendees at the NOLA conference that the survey would be posted by EOD. Unfortunately, some unforeseen logistical snafus kept me from getting this posted during the conference itself.
Here&#8217;s the dealio&#8230;
I cooked up a short survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking &#8216;Bout Mobility In New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/talking-bout-mobility-in-new-orleans.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Today&#8217;s the day, kiddos.
I&#8217;m already in the glorious swampland known as Louisiana and putting the finishing touches on my presention&#160;about Mobility in SMB.
The gloves are coming off, and it&#8217;s being recorded for posterity.
Here&#8217;s hoping I don&#8217;t fall on my posterior, and that everything&#8217;s real horrorshow.
Wish me luck!
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		<title>Death Of The Funboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s official.
The Funboard AKA the FB has been permanently shuttered. This would be the official notice. Not planning to send anything about the closing via e-mail to any of the&#160;650+ folks&#160;who registered for the FB, let alone&#160;its 17,000+ anonymous visitors.
Certain info may make it out of the wreckage, but no promises.
Were I someone else, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best.Joker.Evar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Even as far back as 1990, I said Willem Dafoe would have made the best Joker. I still believe that.
And if you&#8217;d ever seen him in Streets of Fire as Raven Shaddock, the maniacal leader of the Bombers&#8230;you&#8217;d believe it too.
But Ledger as The Joker would run a very close second.
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		<title>Virtualization Rights In Windows Server 2008 Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/02/virtualization-rights-in-windows-server-2008-standard.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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One thing that stood out from the Server 2008&#160;launch today was a small, but key, enhancement regarding virtualization rights under Windows Server 2008 Standard.
Under Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, the license permitted the following&#8230;

A single Standard Edition license server permits you to run one instance of the software in either a physical or virtual OSE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One For The Gamers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know anything about the games industry, this vid might not make a whole lot of sense. So&#160;read this to catch up. Then check this out. Then watch the vid&#8230;

Derek Smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART!!!
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		<title>The Segway Of Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Let me be utterly clear about this, so there is no lingering confusion in anyone&#8217;s mind&#8230;
Groove has to be the worst software I&#8217;ve ever used in my life.
For something else that was breathlessly touted as a revolution with no downside for so long, I&#8217;m amazed that I haven&#8217;t&#160;yet put my fist through the screen when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C&#8217;Mon In And Hover Me</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/01/cmon-in-and-hover-me.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/01/cmon-in-and-hover-me.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
So Nathan, better known as the dude who ripped the covers off Windows Mobile 7 AKA Photon recently, asked&#8230;
I love the hover comments you put on links! Is that a plugin, and where can I get it?
I&#8217;ve heard from folks before that they&#160;dig the hover comments too, which also appear on pictures as well. I&#160;thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Try</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/nice-try.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/nice-try.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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How much do I hate going to cell phone stores?
I consider all those working or otherwise associated with them to be headed for punishment in the 8th subcircle of the 8th circle of Hell, reserved exclusively for fraudulent advisers.
I truly believe the reason that Mobility as a concept is in such a sad sad state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Philovit</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/dont-be-philovit.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/dont-be-philovit.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a good bio is really more art than skill. I&#8217;m in the middle of refreshing my bios and it&#8217;s driving me crazy.
Like most things&#8230;one size doesn&#8217;t always fit all when it comes to bios. Which is why I have nearly a dozen different ones. The reason I have so many? I find that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All The Features Gone?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/where-have-all-the-features-gone.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/where-have-all-the-features-gone.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s a riddle for you&#8230;
Question: When is a Windows Mobile 6 device not a Windows Mobile 6 device?
Answer: When its feature set has more gaps than the smile of a Kentucky debutante. Or Amy Winehouse. Take your pick.
If you happen to be the proud owner of an AT&#38;T 8525 and upgrade it to Windows Mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Shot Of The Week</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/cheap-shot-of-the-week.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/cheap-shot-of-the-week.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do you do when you play for a cow college in Alabama&#8230;
And you find yourself facing an All-American defensive&#160;tackle who has been named&#160;&#8220;the best player in college football&#8221; and&#160;who will&#160;undoubtedly be a first round NFL draft choice?&#160;
Why&#8230;
You&#160;take him down with an illegal chop block, of course. As basically your only assignment on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Apology Necessary</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/no-apology-necessary.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/no-apology-necessary.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ll go on record right now&#8230;
My second favorite SEC team has always been Georgia.
Partly because&#8230;my high school&#8217;s mascot was a bulldog. So maybe you can&#8217;t really teach an old &#8216;Dog a new trick.

Mainly tho, it&#8217;s because Georgia has always handled itself with a lot of class. No matter if it was an up year or [...]]]></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>Be Cool, Stay In Skool</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/be-cool-stay-in-skool.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/10/be-cool-stay-in-skool.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Truth is&#8230;
The best licensing deals happen to be in place at major universities&#160;that have&#160;half a clue.

Because of the monopolistic power of most campus bookstores, they&#160;naturally have a fantastically captive customer base. Which makes software vendors salivate uncontrollably for 2 basic reasons&#8230;

The enrollment at public universities can easily hit the same level as some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citrix Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/citrix-redux.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/citrix-redux.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;History Repeats Itself&#8221; department&#8230;

Is is just me, or does all the arm-wrestling between VMware and a certain software giant in the great Northwest look like a replay of the fighting that went on between the aforementioned software giant and a little company called Citrix way back in the salad days of 1997?
As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Ups For IPSA</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/big-ups-for-ipsa.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/big-ups-for-ipsa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoutout to everyone who came by the September IPSA meeting for my talk on Mobile 2.0 this afternoon. Special holla to all my Alabama SMB peeps who showed. That’d be Greg, James &#038; Ginger. Word.
And speaking of Ginger…
Extra special thanks to her for smacking some sense back into the podium.

Appreciate everyone’s patience with my total clown [...]]]></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>Don&#8217;t Be A LINO</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/dont-be-a-lino.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/dont-be-a-lino.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appreciate David Houston for posting his response to&#160;the GroupLeads Challenge publicly here at the Funcave.

I think The Fisher&#8217;s Bridge: A Story from&#160;nearly a year ago pretty clearly outlines my ideas about community and what it really takes to make it happen.
To get down to brass tacks, it boils down to 2 things&#8230;

It takes people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPSA Is GO!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/ipsa-is-go.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/ipsa-is-go.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m speaking to IPSA AKA the Internet Professionals Society of Alabama on September 13, which is a little over a week away.
The topic? Mobility&#8230;what else?
Here&#8217;s the official title&#8230;
Mobile 2.0 and The Amazing Technicolor Dream You
While confirming the details of the talk earlier today, Jeremy Flint, IPSA&#8217;s speaker wrangler extraordinaire, sent me an e-mail asking:
&#160;Is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimus Freakin&#8217; Maximus</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/optimus-freakin-maximus.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/09/optimus-freakin-maximus.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
$1564.37
That&#8217;s the magic number, kiddos.
That&#8217;s how much cheese it will cost you to get&#160;a keyboard with the power to truly crush other kids.
In case you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, this sweet sweet piece of finger candy hopes to rewrite every rule about keyboards.

With a color&#160;OLED under every key that displays the currently assigned function [...]]]></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>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>HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/hd-dvd-or-blu-ray.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/08/hd-dvd-or-blu-ray.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Yet another stupid standards war. And who always tends to&#160;suffer the greatest casualties?
Consumers, that&#8217;s who.
The robot horde is looking for some input regarding the strengths/weaknesses of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray. Doesn&#8217;t matter which angle you&#8217;re coming from.
Technical features, market position, industry adoption, content availability&#8230;if you&#8217;ve been following this fight for awhile, please post up your thoughts.
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		<title>One More Treo 750 Note For Bitzie</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/one-more-treo-750-note-for-bitzie.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/one-more-treo-750-note-for-bitzie.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That certmodtool you listed earlier at E-Bitz&#160;is only used for Palm OS-based Treos and their craptacular VersaMail app.

The Treo 750, and any other Windows Mobile based Treo, does NOT use that tool.
Count yourself lucky!
Ms. Pat AKA The Awesome Palm Lady might kick my A double S for saying this&#8230;
But trying to configure Exchange Active Sync [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Has All The Hardware Gone?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/where-has-all-the-hardware-gone.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/where-has-all-the-hardware-gone.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a thread running in the Managed Services Yahoo group that really struck a nerve with me.
Who else has been finding it more than a little frustrating trying to partner with hardware companies? I&#8217;m talking box movers. PCs, servers, laptops, etc.
Because honestly&#8230;
Right now the choices come down to who sucks least. Here&#8217;s my take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter Response Point</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/enter-response-point.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/enter-response-point.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Response Point team blog asked the following question&#8230;
What&#8217;s the best way for us to let small businesses know about Response Point?
Sure, RP was on display at Symposium 2.0, the day before WPC. Yes, the announcements sound like RP&#160;will be shown at the Connections events in the fall. There are a few webcasts available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Want My GPS!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/i-want-my-gps.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/07/i-want-my-gps.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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My playing around with the spectacular (but suckily named)&#160;Windows Live Mobile Search 2.0 AKA WLMS2 got me thinking&#8230;

What is up with all these&#160;mobile devices being sold without embedded GPS?

I&#8217;m being serious here.
There is absolutely no way in h-e-double-hockey-stick that I will ever&#160;buy an add-on GPS unit for my Treo, and basically strap up something that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Next-Gen!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/06/im-next-gen.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/06/im-next-gen.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday morning of this week, I took a sunrise trip to Birmingham and kicked the ass of the 70&#8211;500 exam, one of the next-generation Microsoft certification exams.
Passing this exam,&#160;titled TS: Microsoft Windows Mobile Designing, Implementing, and Managing, supposedly&#160;qualifies me as&#160;an MCTS.

Thing is, I&#8217;m not sure exactly what that means.
As in, what should I expect?
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When The Math Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/06/when-the-math-doesnt-work.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/06/when-the-math-doesnt-work.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Something&#8217;s rotten in Denmark&#8230;or Denver, in this case.
I have it on very good authority that registration for Small Business Symposium 2.0 is right around 500.
I also have it on that same very good authority that the number of people registered to attend Symposium, but not also registered to attend Worldwide Partner Conference is only about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Education</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/on-education.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 19:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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I received an e-mail the other day, and was asked this question (I&#8217;m paraphrasing):
Would you suggest I finish my B.S. in Information Technology, or just go through Microsoft&#8217;s learning courses? It seems that by the time you finish the college curriculum it&#8217;s already outdated.
I&#8217;ll show you outdated.&#160;Show of hands, please&#8230;anyone who&#8217;s a whiz with&#160;Office 2003. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Go A&#8217;Conferencing</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/how-to-go-aconferencing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/how-to-go-aconferencing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 05:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Over in the Tweety Room at the WPC Connect site, Vijay asked this question (I’m paraphrasing)…
Any tips on making the most out of my first trip to WPC and the Small Business Symposium?
I started to reply to over there, but once it started getting long I brought it over here.
Both Vlad &#38; Karl have excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Compensation &amp; Community</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/on-compensation-community.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/on-compensation-community.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 03:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Money.
There, I said it. I got the dirty word out in the open so we all have to deal with it now.
I don’t care who you are, or where you are from, or what you are doing…
Continue reading this post at the Funboard (free registration required)
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		<title>From the Day Late, $100K Short Department</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/from-the-day-late-100k-short-department.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/05/from-the-day-late-100k-short-department.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acer&#8217;s all set to&#160;release a Ferrari-themed Pocket PC in July. I guess it&#8217;s so all the toolistically-challenged executives won&#8217;t have to risk someone discovering their shortcoming whilst they are forced to spend time outside of their wheeled reality-distortion-field.

In keeping with the sheer cheese factor, this beast&#160;runs&#8230;
drum roll
Windows Mobile 2003 SE
Woohoo! Welcome to 4 years ago!
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Get Your Patch On!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/come-get-your-patch-on.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/04/come-get-your-patch-on.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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WSUS 3.0 dropped today.
Now, it&#8217;s my distinct opinion that a patch management system is neither a luxury nor an option anymore.
It is, quite frankly, an absolute requirement for any modern network. Like&#160;clean &#38; uninterruptible power, a quality wiring plant, and full, verified data backups.
No matter whether the patch QC at Redmond improves or not, betting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>april foolery doth not an artist make</title>
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		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/03/april-foolery-doth-not-an-artist-make.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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forget that&#160;new holy holiday for luddites called&#160;just shut it off or whatever they are calling it now.
i&#8217;d totally get behind a moratorium on all those dumbass stories the tech media automatically puts out this time of year&#8230;
hey&#8230;guess what? *chuckle snort* a major food company just acquired a major network vendor. get ready to oil up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a question about patch backup files</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/03/a-question-about-patch-backup-files.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/03/a-question-about-patch-backup-files.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[this one bothers the crap out of me.
i understand the importance of patch backup files. if given a choice, i&#160;always allow them to be created for the added insurance if something goes wrong with a patch.
but why does ms insist on having them created at the root of the windows directory?
invariably what happens is&#8230;
as each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m chatting for charity</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/03/im-chatting-for-charity.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/03/im-chatting-for-charity.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[if you&#8217;re using&#160;windows live&#160;messenger, you might have noticed folks in your contact list showing up with this icon preceding their name&#8230;

mothership&#8217;s instituted an ad-revenue sharing program for the following&#160;9 charities:

unlike a direct hit for money, this seems to serve as&#160;a 2 pronged approach&#8230;


generate revenue for the charities&#160;from something&#160;people do normally, without a direct cost to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ms partner program levels: capitalism vs. socialism&#8230;and we all know how that turned out</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/02/ms-partner-program-levels-capitalism-vs-socialismand-we-all-know-how-that-turned-out.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/02/ms-partner-program-levels-capitalism-vs-socialismand-we-all-know-how-that-turned-out.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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a comment over at vladville got me reminiscing about&#160;my halcyon days as a certified partner aka cp &#38; as a gold certified partner aka gcp.
so i went to looking at what&#8217;s out there in the upper reaches of the partner stratosphere now.
imagine my surprise at the changes in the licensing benefits.
it used to be that [...]]]></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>
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		<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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