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	<title>Welcome to the Funcave</title>
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		<title>The Death Of My Business</title>
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/04/the-death-of-my-business.html</link>
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		<title>The Zune Phone Arriveth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s called the KIN&#160;and it comes in&#160;two flavors&#8230;

KIN One

KIN Two
So check it out. Could this make any headway against iPhone, Android, or anything else? Don&#8217;t be shy about&#160;posting up&#160;your thoughts. 
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/04/the-zune-phone-arriveth.html</link>
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		<title>NEW Second Shot Vouchers Now Include Half Off Discount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just about to&#160;publish a wrap-up post about the results of the two previous voucher giveaways, and then this new development comes flying in over the transom&#8230;

For an EXTREMELY limited time, I can issue Second Shot vouchers for MS exams that also include a 50% discount on the cost of the initial exam. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/04/new-second-shot-vouchers-now-include-half-off-discount.html</link>
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		<title>And The Voucher Winners Are&#8230;</title>
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Wow! The Great Voucher Giveaway turned into a SMASH success! I&#8217;ll be posting some more detailed info and a few cool statistics, mainly for the math geeks to drool over.
But first I want to let everyone know who the five lucky winners were! These folks each won one voucher good for a free MS exam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/04/and-the-voucher-winners-are.html</link>
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		<title>Hit Me For Your Second Shot</title>
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I&#8217;m giving away Second Shot vouchers to&#160;ALL comers, good&#160;ANYWHERE in the world that MS exams can be taken. And if you hurry, you might win a FREE MS exam voucher!
What does&#160;Second Shot&#160;mean? If you fail to pass the exam on the first try, you get to take the same exam again,&#160;so long&#160;as you registered for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/hit-me-for-your-second-shot.html</link>
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		<title>Exam-A-Palooza</title>
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This week&#160;kicked off Hell Week, certification-wise,&#160;for me.
Currently I&#8217;ve got a total of&#160;four exams scheduled this week. I&#8217;m&#160;slated to take:

70&#8211;648 TS: Upgrading from Windows Server 2003 MCSA to, Windows Server 2008, Technology Specializations (which I passed this Monday, actually)
70&#8211;646 PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator
70&#8211;669 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization (Beta)
70&#8211;624&#160;TS: Deploying and Maintaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/exam-a-palooza.html</link>
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		<title>A Few Thoughts About Mid-Market IT</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/a-few-thoughts-about-mid-market-it.html</link>
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		<title>EBS Has Left The Building</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/ebs-has-left-the-building.html</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Kitty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought my trip last Sunday couldn&#8217;t get any worse, upon arriving at the Silver Cloud in Redmond at 2a in the morning, I saw this at the far end of the check-in counter&#8230;
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First, I thought &#8220;Cool! Kitty&#8217;s finally getting his props.&#8221; Then I looked a little closer&#8230;


So, I&#8217;m re-posting the link to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/02/goodbye-kitty.html</link>
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		<title>Windows Phone 7 Series Unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft finally took the wraps off Windows Mobile 7 today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

First off, it&#8217;s got a new naming convention: Windows Phone. Second, it has a brand-spanking new UI&#8230;finally!




Windows Phone 7 extends the idea of hubs, which first appeared in Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard devices, to the entire UI.


Windows Phone 7 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/02/windows-phone-7-series-unveiled.html</link>
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		<title>Got R2 Haiku? Last Day To Vote!</title>
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The voting in Microsoft&#8217;s kickass R2 Haiku contest ends today. My entry about DirectAccess ended up being one of the nine finalists, which means I&#8217;m still in the running.
So if you don&#8217;t mind, take a second to hop over to the voting page&#160;and toss a vote my way.
To vote, just click the VOTE button under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/01/got-r2-haiku-last-day-to-vote.html</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons The University Of Florida Picked Their Colors</title>
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Tomorrow at 4p EST in&#160;the Georgia Dome (broadcast on CBS), the Crimson Tide and the Florida handbags&#160;will crown&#160;the SEC champion, and effectively determine the NCAA national champion as well.
To commemorate the occasion, from the home office in Gordo, Alabama, the top 10 reasons the University of Florida picked their colors&#8230;
10. Glare completely hides Gainesville from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/12/top-10-reasons-the-university-of-florida-picked-their-colors.html</link>
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		<title>Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Again.</title>
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/09/never-forgive-never-forget-never-again.html</link>
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		<title>MS Exam Discounts Giveaway Held Open One More Day</title>
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Lo and behold, the 20% off MS exam discounts were supposed to have ended as of today.
But they haven&#8217;t. At least, not yet. Here&#8217;s the reason why&#8230;
Basically, the &#8220;Gear To Get Your Butt In Gear&#8221; giveaway being held at the Funcave drove a whole heaping bunch of interest in the 20% off discounts. So much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/ms-exam-discounts-giveaway-held-open-one-more-day.html</link>
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		<title>Changing The Future</title>
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Last week, I had the good fortune to attend CMP&#8217;s XChange&#8217;09 event in Washington, DC. As a vendor-centric show, this kind of event gives solution providers like my company the opportunity to see new offerings from various vendors, give feedback, and forge business relationships that can mutually benefit our companies.
But this year, one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/changing-the-future.html</link>
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		<title>LAST CALL: 20 Percent Off MS Exams Giveaway Ends TODAY</title>
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Today is the LAST day that the 20% discount for MS exam discounts will still be available for certain regions/countries. So if you want some, you MUST enter the giveaway TODAY!
Honestly, the response to the MS exam voucher giveaway has been nothing short of AMAZING! So much so that actually delivering the vouchers to people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/last-call-20-percent-off-ms-exams-giveaway-ends-today.html</link>
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		<title>475 Exam Discounts Given Away, But The Clock Is Ticking!</title>
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Time&#8217;s running out for you to get in on the exam discount vouchers, folks.
All exam discount vouchers&#160;generated through the MCT Rewards program&#160;will flip over to 10% off starting on August 27, 2009, now and forever, instead of the current 20% off enjoyed by some countries/regions.
Current year vouchers generated BEFORE August 27, 2009, however, won&#8217;t expire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/475-exam-discounts-given-away-but-the-clock-is-ticking.html</link>
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		<title>Beta TS Exam for Exchange 2010 Available Now</title>
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If you want to try to get a seat for the beta TS exam for Exchange 2010, here&#8217;s the info you need&#8230;

The exam you want: 71&#8211;662 TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring
Registration code: E14J

Full details are available at Beta Exam Announcements.
And if you get in, then good luck!
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/beta-ts-exam-for-exchange-2010-available-now.html</link>
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		<title>For All You Mecha Lovers Out There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smith &#38; Tinker are the uber-cool folks who bought the FASA licensed properties back from Microsoft. Which really means only one thing&#8230;
Gigantic fighting mecha action!

Check out the whole trailer for MechWarrior 5 right here. Yummay!
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/for-all-you-mecha-lovers-out-there.html</link>
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		<title>Gear To Get Your Butt In Gear</title>
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Good intentions don&#8217;t really mean much. Sure, you can vow to&#160;go rock-climbing, but if you&#160;never actually do anything about learning how to do it, and making sure you have the appropriate gear to help you learn, what happens? You&#8217;ll very quickly become a damp stain at the bottom of a rock face, that&#8217;s what.
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/gear-to-get-your-butt-in-gear.html</link>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY 2: 20 Percent Off MS Exam Vouchers Worldwide</title>
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Since August has been unofficially dubbed &#8220;Gear To Get Your Butt in Gear&#8221; month here at the Funcave,&#160;ALL the giveaways reflect some aspect of that idea. That idea being, basically, it&#8217;s time to get off your duff and get busy making whatever you want to happen actually happen, Cap&#8217;n.
And since there&#8217;s no time like the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/giveaway-2-20-percent-off-ms-exam-vouchers-worldwide.html</link>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY: Now With Even More MSPU</title>
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Lo and behold, the MSP University book giveaway just started, and now there&#8217;s even MORE MSPU goodness to be had!
In addition to the previously mentioned three copies of The Guide to a Successful Managed Services Practice, written by the incomparable Erick Simpson,&#160;I&#8217;m also giving away two copies of Erick&#8217;s&#160;The Best I.T. Sales &#38; Marketing Book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/giveaway-now-with-even-more-mspu.html</link>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY: The Next Best Thing To Being At MSPU Bootcamp</title>
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To commemorate the MSP University bootcamp being held right now, I&#8217;ve got a special giveaway for anyone who couldn&#8217;t make it out to California.
Three lucky winners will receive&#160;their very own copy of The Guide to a Successful Managed Services Practice (MSRP $99.95) written by none other than Erick Simpson, VP/CIO of MSP University.
To enter, simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/08/giveaway-the-next-best-thing-to-being-at-mspu-bootcamp.html</link>
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		<title>Too Hot To Handle</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/07/too-hot-to-handle.html</link>
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		<title>Selling Out</title>
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This is the second time of which The Antelope’s aware that Amazon has sold out of its existing copies of Brand-New Emily. Which means BNE is selling. Which rocks!
Please let there be lunch boxes.
Please let there be lunch boxes.
Please let there be lunch boxes.
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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/selling-out.html</link>
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		<title>Getting Dirty With Windows Mobile 6.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry&#8230;this post is totally safe for work.

The release of the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit&#160;earlier this month means folks can finally start digging into the latest release of Windows Mobile, long before it actually shows up&#160;on any devices.
Even if you&#8217;re not developing for mobile devices, there are a slew of insanely&#160;helpful reasons to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/getting-dirty-with-windows-mobile-65.html</link>
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		<title>The Cake Is Not A Lie</title>
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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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		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/the-cake-is-not-a-lie.html</link>
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		<title>The Ripple Effect AKA Women In Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing this Father&#8217;s Day weekend&#8230;

Apple of My Eye and Cute as a Button and I spent most of yesterday working in our&#160;brand-new Mindstorms NXT laboratory building, programming and testing robots. So far we&#8217;ve built the TriBot, Alpha Rex, and Spike AKA The Scorpion. Both of them dig getting the robots to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/the-ripple-effect-aka-women-in-technology.html</link>
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		<title>People Are Buzzing About Brand-New Emily</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/people-are-buzzing-about-brand-new-emily.html</link>
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		<title>In Stock</title>
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Never have so few words meant so much to my wife AKA Ginger AKA Running Antelope. You see, as of yesterday, her first novel, Brand-New Emily, went world-wide live and released officially!
Here’s a bunch of places you can order BNE from…

Books-A-Million
Amazon.com
Barnes &#38; Noble
Buy.com

It’s also significant for me too. As agreed upon earlier, now that her first book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/06/in-stock.html</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Man Enough To Be At WomenBuild Tonight. Are You?</title>
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One of the most eye-opening moments for me during the bus tour was seeing the statistics about the decline of females taking computer science AP exams, and the attendant decline of females in the technology industry.
Personally, I have a feeling that most of this trend largely boils down to the typical stereotypes about the computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/05/im-man-enough-to-be-at-womenbuild-tonight-are-you.html</link>
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		<title>Joanne&#8217;s In The Fishbowl Today</title>
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Joanne Lin, one of the folks who rode on the bus tour to Tech-Ed 2009,&#160;will be&#160;co-presenting a session today in one of the Expo Hall fishbowl theaters.
At 2:45p, Joanne and Jeff Hora will&#160;discuss &#8220;How To Get Published: What It Takes To Be A Community Author On Microsoft Technologies.&#8221; The official session code is COM19&#8211;INT. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/05/joannes-in-the-fishbowl-today.html</link>
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		<title>Things About The Bus Tour That I&#8217;ll Always Remember</title>
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Yes, I know I was eerily silent during the bus tour, blog-wise. Funny thing is, despite all the time spent driving, stuff was always happening. We were headed somewhere all the time, unloading or loading swag, setting up the equipment for the AYC game. And connectivity was often hit-or-miss at the stops. It was all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/05/things-about-the-bus-tour-that-ill-always-remember.html</link>
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		<title>The Last 100 Miles</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/05/the-last-100-miles.html</link>
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		<title>And These. These Are My People&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After dinner last night, the entire Career Express team headed to Target. It was just like a Susan Bradley Mountain Dew run, except without any Mountain Dew in any of the carts at all.

What were some of the things people did get?

Water&#8230;lots and lots of water
Candy
Trail mix
More candy
Music

And because it was Target, there&#8217;s a whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/and-these-these-are-my-people.html</link>
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		<title>Avengers Assemble!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so it&#8217;s not really the Avengers, but the Career Express team that assembled in Atlanta yesterday to prep for the 11 days of mayhem and awesomeness that kicks off today.
My flight from BHM to ATL today would have been a completely uneventful jacknife of a flight, since the flight path for that route is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/avengers-assemble.html</link>
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		<title>The Career Express Tour Tweet-ups And You</title>
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So, I’ve gotten a ton of nudges from folks about the cross-country Career Express Tour that starts Friday. Most of them have been virtual high-fives, etc. But there have also been some questions about the tour.
The top two questions have been, in order…

The bus isn’t stopping near me. You hate me, don’t you?
What’s this “tweet-up” thing that’s happening in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/the-career-express-tour-tweet-ups-and-you.html</link>
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		<title>Meet Your Fairy Godmother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or at least, the closest you&#8217;ll ever get to one anyway.

This is Marie. As in Marie McFadden.&#160;Her nickname has alway been her initials, which spell&#160;MOM. But after what I&#8217;m about to tell you, Marie will be turning your world upside-down in a way that should make you stand up and cheer. Which means her nickname&#160;from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/meet-your-fairy-godmother.html</link>
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		<title>Should We Stay Or Should We Go?</title>
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It has been one non-stop set of planning meetings here at the Funcave all weekend long.&#160;Trying to wrangle my personal logistics into shape for the cross-country bus trip to Tech-Ed next month isn&#8217;t impossible, but ain&#8217;t exactly a walk in the park either.
But you know what the best part of this whole thing has been/will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/should-we-stay-or-should-we-go.html</link>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ll Be In 2009 Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Forget the whirlwind. 2009 now feels like someone just strapped a jetpack to my back and flipped the &#8220;On&#8221; switch without telling me. Problem is&#8230;the person who did that?&#160;Me! 
Here&#8217;s&#160;the latest rundown with relevant links to all the talks, places, and conferences currently on my schedule.
April

14 &#8211; Webcast: Using System Center Essentials&#160;with Essential Business Server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/where-ill-be-in-2009-redux.html</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Getting On The Bus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s officially official&#8230;

MS Learning picked me as one of the six winners of a free trip to Tech-Ed 2009! Not only that, but I&#8217;m taking the road trip option. That&#8217;s right&#8230;cross-country via bus. Atlanta to L.A. in 11 days, with tons of stops in-between.
Here&#8217;s the current itinerary for the Career Express tour, straight from&#160;MS Learning&#8217;s&#160;kickass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/im-getting-on-the-bus.html</link>
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		<title>T-Minus 10 Hours And Counting</title>
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It&#8217;s not too late to sign up and attend the smokin&#8217; hot TechNet IT Pro Tiki Hut Tour stop tonight in Huntsville. There are still a few seats left. So if you want in, get off your keister and register now: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032406292&#38;Culture=en-US
I&#8217;ve been finishing up my prep for the two presentations I&#8217;m slated to give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/t-minus-10-hours-and-counting.html</link>
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		<title>Why Am I Passionate About Microsoft Training And Certification?</title>
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I&#8217;ve been on record as being a big huge superfan of IT training and certification from my very first days in the IT industry. Long before I had a blog that was read by people all over the world, I told anyone who would sit still long enough to listen that if they wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/why-am-i-passionate-about-microsoft-training-and-certification.html</link>
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		<title>TechNet&#8217;s Putting A Tiki Hut In Your Own Backyard</title>
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Next Monday, April 20, the IT Pro Tiki Hut Tour&#160;blasts off for the East region in none other than Huntsville&#8230;Alabama&#8217;s very own Rocket City. Spearheaded by Blain Barton,&#160;MS Evangelist Extraordinaire, this FREE tour will be visiting 10 different cities through June 4. The fact that Blain&#8217;s leading it should already be enough to pack the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/technets-putting-a-tiki-hut-in-your-own-backyard.html</link>
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		<title>One Froggy Evening</title>
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Well, the presentation on System Center Essentials and Essential Business Server went off pretty smoothly, all things considered.
I was coughing like a 3 pack a day smoker, had just barely gotten my demo environment stood up in time, and (in the interest of full disclosure) was still about 3 slides from finished when it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/one-froggy-evening.html</link>
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		<title>The Make-Or-Break Feature Of Essential Business Server</title>
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Tomorrow night I&#8217;ll be delivering a webcast to the EBSUserGroup titled &#8220;Using System Center Essentials&#160;With Windows Essential Business Server.&#8221; This is a pretty bold statement, but&#160;I personally think SCE is&#160;THE make-or-break feature of EBS for anyone who wants to use, support, or otherwise make EBS a part of their business.
We&#8217;ll talk about why that is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/the-make-or-break-feature-of-essential-business-server.html</link>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ll Be In 2009</title>
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2009 quickly turned into a whirlwind, and in the pit of my stomach I feel like a cowboy who&#8217;s just about to hop on&#160;and try to&#160;ride that cyclone. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown with relevant links to all the talks, places, and conferences currently on my schedule.
April
14 &#8211; Webcast: Using System Center Essentials&#160;with Essential Business Server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/where-ill-be-in-2009.html</link>
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		<title>Slam Dunking The Mid-Market, 5W/50 Style!</title>
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Last Friday I gave a webcast as part of the 5W/50 Series for Microsoft Partners. Titled &#8220;Adding Windows Essential Business Server to Your Infrastructure Practice,&#8221; the talk was almost completely focused on the business value of Essential Business Server, including why EBS should matter to both mid-market businesses and why you, as a Partner, might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/slam-dunking-the-mid-market-5w50-style.html</link>
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		<title>Why Essential Business Server Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never sure what the optimal time for announcing this stuff is, but I&#8217;ve tended to find that the closer to time the better, strangely enough.
I&#8217;ll be delivering a webcast for the 5W/50 series tomorrow titled &#8220;Adding Essential Business Server to Your Infrastructure Practice.&#8221; The webcast, which is free for Microsoft Partners, will start at 9:00a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/why-essential-business-server-matters.html</link>
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		<title>Better Than Minesweeper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while back, Eileen Brown from MS UK posted her experience with a new online distraction from MS Learning called, aptly enough,&#160;Are You Certifiable?

First off&#8230;this isn&#8217;t the typical online quiz game you&#8217;d prolly expect from MS.&#160;The stuff this thing throws at you are TOUGH! Unlike a real exam, you have unlimited time to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/02/better-than-minesweeper.html</link>
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